Mon, 27 Feb 2006
Open Sources 2.0
DiBona, Cooper, Stone, Eds. Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution,
O'Reilly
Here is a broad summary of what Open Source means and can mean today.
In a series of essays many aspects of the movement are set forth for
those who need to know or those that are just plain interested ... and
everyone should be interested. The idea of collaborative development
can be applied in many areas other than software -- gene manipulation
and health care for one. News gathering is another. If you look at the
aggregate of quality RSS feeds, what is that other than collaborative
news gathering. Finding the quality is another question and making it
happen another, and that is all nicely illustrated in an essay about
Groklaw.
Business types should especially read this to get a better understanding
of what it all means: OS after all isn't against people making money.
There are people who are like that but their banner isn't Open Source.
It's pretty good geek reading as well with some nice history
essays and some thoroughly technical ones as well.
Bleepfest 06 will be a part-day and night event that will be like the
Demos of old and where people can have the option to display what
they're doing "off stage" to small groups around them or to plug into
the PA and be an "event". Events will have time spaces between them so
that everybody else isn't drowned out.
The object is to attract people who like to play with music as well as
people who are quite serious about it. The object is also to create a
fun and friendly environment where people can wander around and get new
ideas.
The event is Operating System Agnostic! bring along your Linux Box, Mac,
or Windows machine, or PDA ... or old Atari or Spectrum even!
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