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Simone Cicero: Problems with Open Source

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Simone Cicero

The power of open source lies in the ability to build upon others’ work, and good documentation is the key to making this happen. The goal of open source documentation standards is to facilitate a collaborative framework which encourages others to contribute to a common pool of human knowledge.

Open product development has the potential to transform the economic system by making widespread collaboration possible. If there are easy mechanisms for viewing and updating open product documentation, products can evolve rapidly under the hands of many contributors. However, several obstacles often stand in the way of contributions and improvements. Below is a list of problems and possible ways to approach them.

The Complete Problem Statement

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Mini-Me: 120,000 Antelope Drop Dead

03 Environmental Degradation
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Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

Why have 121,000 antelopes in Kazakhstan suddenly dropped dead?

Just three weeks ago, there were thought to be about 300,000 saiga roaming the Kazakh steppes. Now, nearly 121,000 carcasses have been discovered. 

An estimated 300,000 saiga roamed across the Kazakh steppes on May 11, when the first dead antelope was discovered. By May 27, nearly 121,000 carcasses had been found in three huge areas of their usual habitat, Agriculture Ministry officials said.

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Marcus Aurelius: More Than Half World’s Countries Spawning Jihadists – Robert Steele: Is Anyone Getting This?

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Immigration, 09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Peace Intelligence
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Marcus Aurelius

From Newsmax; have not yet been able to verify:

U.N.: More Than Half of World's Countries Spawning Jihadists

A highly disturbing new report from the United Nations asserts that more than half of the world's nations are now producing jihadist fighters to join the ranks of terrorist organizations in the Middle East. More than 25,000 mujahideen have joined the al-Qaida network and the Islamic State (ISIS) in recent years, creating an “unprecedented” and long-term threat to international security, according to the U.N. The report, prepared by the U.N. Security Council's special permanent committee for monitoring Islamic violence, “amounts to one of the most bleak and comprehensive assessments of the global foreign fighter phenomenon compiled yet,” the Financial Times stated. The authors of the report said their findings are based on detailed evidence from 27 intelligence and security services from around the globe.

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Today, Right Now, Please Support Peter Joseph (Zeitgeist) New Film — Interreflections — Watch the Trailer

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Peter Joseph Z MovementPeter Joseph, Zeitgeist Movement Founder, has just agreed to be our inspirational speaker at Open Source Everything for the 21st Century in NYC in early December 2015.

We are moved and appreciative. He is raising money to finish the first of the Interreflections Trilogy movies and although he has achieved his goal of $50,000 we strongly urge all who care about open source everything — and a new model of Open Collaborativsm — to go here, now, and donate what they can.  Thank you, Peter Joseph.

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Call for Nominations – Open Source Everything Conference in NYC 3-6 December 2015

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Open Source Everything (OSE)

OSE is a three day conference celebrating the culture and mind-set of open source by bringing together the vast network of ethical souls advancing openness in their fields to share information, inspire cross-sector collaboration, create new teams, networks and goals. For the first time in history: all the opens; UN and others articulating integrated needs statements for open source solutions focused on the 99% including the five billion poorest; and team building at the intersection of energy, water, food, and shelter, and the intersection of communications, computing, digital transactions, education and self-governance.

The plenary session is in the final stages of confirmation along with space for 800 participants in NYC from Thursday 3 December to Sunday 6 December 2015. Nominations are sought for break-out speakers, posters, and tables. Sponsors are offered a $25K package that includes a speaking slot, 25 full- access passes, multiple tables (out of 100-200), and team-building facilitation.

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About    Pre-Conference    Plenary Speakers   Nominate

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Richard Stallman and Phil Zimmerman underline key concerns with tech sector

IO Impotency, IO Privacy, IO Technologies
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Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman and Phil Zimmerman underline key concerns with tech sector

Two of technology's most pioneering developers have strongly criticised the current state of the industry, warning that the right to encryption is doomed and that users are exploited by the software that they use.

Open sourcerer Richard Stallman has painted a very bleak picture of today's technology and communications environment, describing proprietary software as “malware”.

Stallman, the founder of the free software movement, perhaps not surprisingly has a very jaundiced view of proprietary software, and of Microsoft Windows especially. “What kinds of programs constitute malware? Operating systems, first of all. Windows snoops on users, shackles users and, on mobiles, censors apps,” he wrote in a newspaper editorial.

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