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Event: : 12 Sep Philadelphia 14 Sep Boston CultureCon 2012!

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Building the Future of Work and Culture: Announcing CultureCon 2012!

I’ve been a solo artist working independently for several years now, occasionally teaming up with others around events or short-term media projects. Lately though, I’ve become less interested in just doing one-off collaborations. For one, it gets lonely, and secondly, I’m unable to take on the scale of projects I want to work on all by myself.

I want to be part of a tribe — a creative community of like-minds with whom I can learn, grow, and deliver awesome value to the world, together.

This tribe has a certain kind of culture, based in clearly defined shared values that we not only agree upon conceptually, but live and demonstrate through our way of being.

Here are a few characteristics of this tribal culture:

* we respect ourselves and each other – expressing gratitude and appreciation for the unique gifts and talents everyone brings to the table

* we’re all leaders – positively influencing each other’s thoughts, words, and actions, and offering support and feedback in service of each other’s growth and development

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Howard Rheingold: Collaborative Information Filters

Culture, Knowledge
Howard Rheingodl

Learning Collaborative Information Filters (PDF)

Automating filtering via machine learning is an up-and-coming research category for infotention — Howard ” “Predicting items a user would like on the basis of other users’ ratings for these items has become a well-established strategy adopted by many recommendation services on the Internet. Although this can be seen as a classification problem, algorithms proposed thus far do not draw on results from the machine learning literature. We propose a representation for collaborative filtering tasks that allows the application of virtually any machine learning algorithm. We identify the shortcomings of current collaborative filtering techniques and propose the use of learning algorithms paired with feature extraction techniques that specifically address the limitations of previous approaches.”

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Sepp Hasslberger: Open Source Wind Turbine

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Sepp Hasslberger

The Zoetrope – a low-cost open source wind turbine

The Zoetrope is a vertical-axis wind turbine made from common materials such as stove pipe, metal brackets, plastic sheet and a trailer hub. Many of the materials can be found at local hardware or home improvement stores, the rest can either be made at home or purchased online.

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Applied Sciences made the decision to open source the wind turbine and provide a freely available introduction to wind power, thereby allowing others to improve the design and functionality. The construction guide represents a realization of the open source decision. It details the build process and includes a complete materials list as well as recommended tools.

See photos and videos as well as full specifications and links to other resources.

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2012 Reality Sandwich: The Open Source Everything Manifesto

#OSE Open Source Everything, Articles & Chapters, Manifesto Extracts
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The Open Source Everything Manifesto

Robert David Steele

Reality Sandwich, 13 June 2012

The following is excerpted from The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust published by Evolver Editions, an imprint of North Atlantic Books.

The circumstances underlying this manifesto are stark and compelling: We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communal decision-making. Power was centralized in the hands of increasingly specialized “elites” and “experts” who not only failed to achieve all they promised but used secrecy and the control of information to deceive the public into allowing them to retain power over community resources that they ultimately looted.

In the beginning, there was the commons. Over vast stretches of prehistoric time, tribal cultures evolved in tandem with the natural environment. They did this without creating private property or hierarchical relationships of control and dominance that led to consumption of nature as a resource. Open-source culture provided for community sharing and community development. With the rise of patriarchy, empire, and systems of egoic control and empowerment, this open-source approach to community was destroyed. Over the course of the last centuries, the commons was fenced, and everything from agriculture to water was commoditized without regard to the true cost in non-renewable resources. Human beings, who had spent centuries evolving away from slavery, were re-commoditized by the Industrial Era.

The corruption of the commons led to the loss of integrity between and among individuals, organizations, and community. Artificial paradises made up of objects and possessions were substituted for true community based on authentic heart-to-heart relationships. Secular corruption is made possible by information asymmetries between those in power and the public. In the absence of transparency, truth, and trust, wealth is concentrated and waste is rampant.

We, Homo sapiens, are defined by what we know in the context of the Cosmos and the Earth — larger Whole Systems.

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract III

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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract III

Education

The core value of universal education must inform the most intrinsic function and principle of a democratic society, in order that self-directed reason is inculcated into the populace.

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To this end, Durant [in Philosophy and the Social Problem] draws out the importance of not having a standard government-defined  education, and of making education fun, exploratorytty, diverse, and open-ended.  I cannot help but recall her how my hacker friends consider schools to be prisons.

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For Durant, the mission of philosophy is to facilitate among all people the growth and spread of intelligence, hence also the capacity to use reason to discriminate and make coherent [individual as well as collective] decisions.  Unlike history, which reconstructs the past, philosophy seeks to construct a living future.  Instead of analysis, synthesis; instead of categorization, reconstruction and redirection.  Innovation and creativity come from having a whole-systems perspective, inculcated through education that recognizes a diversity of approaches.

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Tom Atlee: Occupy Adopts Open Everything Meme

#OSE Open Source Everything
Tom Atlee

Occupy Rio+20 Publishes Open Source Imperative

The following statement will be presented by the Earth Summit WG to the United Nations as a participating group in the Rio+20 conference in Brasil.

The Open Source Imperative

Hello World, We Who Occupy The Earth thank the UN for supporting civil society through granting us “interested party” status in Rio +20's drafting process. Humanity's Elders (The Kogi, The Hopi, The Council of Grandmothers) warn Mother Earth is in critical condition, our scientists confirm the life systems are collapsing, our economists predict the next market crash coming soon. But for the first time, a truly global institution recognizes what civil society has been perpetually assaulted for voicing – the global governing system is broken. We respond directly to UN Under- Secretary General (USG) Achim Steiner's appeal to activists June 6th with a real solution:

Open Source Everything

What does Open Source Everything mean to the UN?: Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Sustainable Development (RDSD) empowers The 99% with deep participation in the United Nations:

Environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens, at the relevant level… each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities…

Since the last Earth Summit, humanity has mastered the open communications systems, information technology and software to enable global collaboration, participation and innovation. As Marshall McLuhan predicted, today's living generations are birthing one of the greatest social transformations in history — the shift from the Industrial Age to the Age of Shared Wisdom and Innovation. The Internet and associated technologies form an evolutionary system for the human race, encompassing the tools and diverse traditions to harness a holistic and resilient approach to build future civilization.

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