Peer2Politics

As open source advocates and newlyweds, Marcin Jakubowski and Catarina Mota decided to reinvent the home-building wheel a few years back. In the process, they have been developing an entirely open-source toolkit that makes the design and construction of eco-friendly, off-grid modular housing easier, cheaper, and faster through use of modular designs, rapid-build construction, social production, locally-sourced materials, and open-source machines.

The annual Future of Open Source survey confirms what we all suspected: Open source has won. Companies are wising up to the power of contribution and cooperation. Those who engage benefit from lower friction in their ongoing operations - reducing the burden of regressions, improving the flow of innovation and sharing the task of security review. It’s the ultimate IT lubricant in the Internet age.

While researchers are becoming increasingly interested in studying OSS phenomenon, there is still a small number of studies analyzing larger samples of projects investigating the structure of activities among OSS developers. The significant amount of information that has been gathered in the publicly available open-source software repositories and mailing-list archives offers an opportunity to analyze projects structures and participant involvement. In this article, using on commits data from 263 Apache projects repositories (nearly all), we show that although OSS development is often described as collaborative, but it in fact predominantly relies on radically solitary input and individual, non-collaborative contributions. We also show, in the first published study of this magnitude, that the engagement of contributors is based on a power-law distribution.

"How would you design an Open Source School?
come for 12 days in the south of Apulia for free to met amazing people and co-design an open source school ?

Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.

Shareable, the Sharing Cities Network, our partners — and hopefully you — are hosting the third annual #MapJam starting April 4th through the 17th. We’re excited to bring communities together in cities around the world to connect the dots and map grassroots sharing projects, cooperatives, community resources, and the commons.

So far, the Internet has been very good at helping people do things together. But once it involves money, there is no good solution…

SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=19219 You wouldn't download a house, would you? Of course you would! And now with the Open Buildin

Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete — both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind. Goodbye World Book and Brittanica.

Nafeez Ahmed: The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth

A growing movement that combines open source design with sustainability is creating an exciting alternative to profit-driven, proprietary sustainability products. As we face urgent issues like climate change, the ability of open source communities to quickly and inexpensively create solutions makes increasing sense.

What happens when programmers, designers, and activists join forces? Change happens. Or, more specifically, Changeforge happens.

There is a strong preference for new software systems based on open source platforms, and proprietary systems should be considered only if they can meet the same long-term benefits available with open source.