"The Participatory Culture Foundation, a Massachusetts based 501(c)(3) non-profit, makes bottom-up economies and cultures possible by ensuring that our political, social and cultural systems are open and democratic everywhere. We work to eliminate gatekeepers and empower communities around the world."
"Code is the technical backbone of the DPLA. Where possible, the DPLA will make use of existing free and open source code; all new code funded by the DPLA will be free and open source. In order to facilitate and maximize interoperability, the DPLA platform will support open standards. It will be freely accessible for others to fork, host, and replicate with no discrimination based on use or field of endeavor."
Nir Eyal 23.6.2012: “What people aren’t telling you,” Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, “can very often give you great insight as to where you should be directing your attention.” - "monetizable secrets" abt "user behavior", and network effects - "software continues to eat the world"
Elias Aarnio: "FLOSS.fi:n idea on koota VALO-käyttäjiä erilaisiin viiteryhmiin, joilla on jokaisella oma fooruminsa." "FLOSS.fi on käynnistetty [Oct -13?] Euroopan sosiaalirahaston rahoittaman Avoimuudesta Voimaa Oppimisverkostoihin eli AVO2-hankkeen toimintana."
Safiirilasi, kehittynyt akku ja huipputehoa. Siinäpä joitakin Canonicalin Ubuntu Edge -puhelimen ominaisuuksia. Mutta Linux-luuria ei tule, jos netin joukkorahoittajat eivät lähde mukaan. I t-viikko 23.7.2013 14:43
"Though a fervent supporter of his former employer to this day, Wozniak told attendees of an event in Sydney that Apple could still open the architecture on its growing range of phones, computers and tablets to the masses for the greater good"
"Toimitusjohtaja Tatu Ylönen yrittää vetää tietoturvayhtiö Tectian pörssistä ja palata yrittäjäksi. Hän tahtoo luoda uutta ilman pörssin tiukkoja sääntöjä. Ylönen haluaa käyttää kykyjään esimerkiksi puolustusvälineisiin, joilla voitaisiin torjua kyberhyökkäys. Hänestä kynnys iskeä tietoverkkoihin on selvästi alempi kuin kynnys pudottaa pommeja."
April 3, 2012 - 9:33pm By Joshua Kim Have you noticed that books are looking more and more like apps? Do you find yourself buying books from the Kindle Single store? Browsing the nonfiction selections at nowandthenreader.com? Checking out the original stories at atavist.net? Getting excited about the newest release from the TED Books?
in a Swedish book about libraries I found this reference to Vinton Cerf's lecture "The Future of Information and Communication Technology" However, the lecture is presented in a commercial format, which is not accessible with the web browser I use. I wish the new library of Alexandria would offer this lecture, and all web content, also in formats which are compatible and readable with open standards and free software.
Bundesbildungsministerin Annette Schavan muss sich gegen neue Plagiatsvorwürfe bei ihrer Doktorarbeit verteidigen. Der Gründer der Internet-Plattform VroniPlag, Martin Heidingsfelder, wirft der CDU-Politikerin vor, an deutlich mehr Stellen abgeschrieben zu haben als bislang bekannt. „Auf über 33 Prozent der Seiten finden sich Plagiate bei Frau Schavan“, sagte der Erlanger Plagiatsexperte der „Augsburger Allgemeinen“ (Mittwochausgabe) nach einer Überprüfung der 32 Jahre alten Doktorarbeit.
The gradual disappearance of open wireless networks is a tragedy of the commons, with a confusing twist of privacy and security debate. This essay explains why the progressive locking of wireless networks is harmful — for convenience, for privacy and for
Deeplink by Julie Samuels, "Essentially, Apple's patent provides for a device to investigate a user's identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is "unauthorized," or, in other words, stolen. More specifically, the technology would allow Appl
While Android may have the legal licensing to qualify as open source, it utterly fails on the equally important issues of transparency and community. Android basically gives you two options: Accept what Google gives you, or fork the entire codebase. Other
"Used during the Great War Archive Initiative and Woruldhord project, CoCoCo (Community Contributed Collection) is a Ruby on Rails Web application used to collect and catalogue content contributed by website users. That content can be either textual or co
Semantic Bundle is a pre-packaged bundle of extensions for use with wikis that are based around the Semantic MediaWiki extension. It can be obtained either through SVN or by downloading a single .tgz or .zip file.
"We’re a global community of thousands who sincerely believe in the power of technology to enrich people’s lives. We’re a public benefit organization dedicated not to making money but to improving the way people everywhere experience the Internet. And we’
"Ydinvoimalan valvomon seinässä on sadoittain mekaanisia painikkeita ja hantaakeja. Tunnelma on hämmästyttävän 70-lukulainen, vaikka muutamia nykyaikaisia pc-työasemia onkin käytössä. No, emme oikeasti ole valvomossa vaan sitä tarkasti mallintavassa simul
Cyclos is open source online banking software for complementary currency systems like Barter networks and exchange systems as C3 (commerce and consumer circuit) that are introduced in order to stimulate the circulation and the availability of credit in re
kirjasto ei enää tyydy "antamaan rahaa siitä, ettei ole estetty käyttämästä jotain ohjelmaa". Avoin lähdekoodi perustuu Internetin täysimittaiseen hyödyntämiseen ohjelmistokehityksessä: sen voima syntyy laajojen ihmisjoukkojen osallistumisesta prosessiin.
Rasmus Fleischer (Copyriot) i Sydsvenskan 23 augusti 2009: "Digitaliseringen har osäkrat bibliotekens identitet. Vissa svarar med den enfaldiga visionen om “digitala bibliotek”, i linje med den gamla idén om ett cyberspace dit befintliga verksamheter kund
This is an unofficial translation of the GNU General Public License into Finnish. It was not published by the Free Software Foundation, and does not legally state the distribution terms for software that uses the GNU GPL - only the original English text o