Event: 9-11 Dec San Francisco CA Open Space Learning Workshop by Lisa Heft

This stuff WORKS.  It requires patience, listening, and the courage to be candid. We absolutely gurantee this produces better decisions than are coming out of Congress, the White House, or the senior offices of any major organization. The decisions are better for three reasons: 1.  All available points of view are factored in. 2. All …

Jean Lievens: Makerspace the Next Open Source Frontier

The makerspace is the next open source frontier EXTRACT In this brave new world of heterogeneous projects that combine hardware, software, printed, cloud, and other pieces, we are going to see an cacophony of different tools for building these different parts of an idea and project. We have GitHub for collaborating around code, Thingiverse for …

John Maguire: Hackerspaces & Open-Source Creativity — Making Up for Educational Shortfalls

“Inspired in part by the open source movement, public spaces are emerging where people congregate to share ideas, make cool projects, teach, and brainstorm with collaborators on everything from coding to cooking. With no leaders, they have one rule: “Be excellent to each other.” Take a tour of the hackerspace Noisebridge, located in the heart …

Event: 30 Jun, 2010 OpenNet Initiative (ONI) Global Summit–Should Cyberspace be Secured as an Open Commons?

The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) 2010 Global Summit will convene three high-level panels of experts and practitioners on prominent topics related to cyberspace governance, security, and advocacy. The three panels will be organized as informal “talk show” or “Davos” style format: an active moderator, questions and answers from the audience, and high-level exchanges among the panelists and the …

Matthew Ehret: The End of Closed System Geopolitics and the Rise of Open System Development- Vernadsky’s Law for the 21st Century

Matthew Ehret: The End of Closed System Geopolitics and the Rise of Open System Development- Vernadsky’s Law for the 21st Century It has become popular today among the scientific community, to proclaim as a matter of fact, that the universe is ultimately governed by death and decay on the large scale and randomness on the …