Review: The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust

Robert David Steele 5.0 out of 5 stars End Result of Quarter Century Walk-About,June 5, 2012 Updated 27 June: Why on earth is this book in top 100 for Espionage? I can only speculate that because I am a former spy, trained over 7,500 intelligence professionals, and have been an arch critic of secret intelligence …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract III

On Sale from 5 June 2012 Chapter 2 Open-Source Everything Extract III On the next few pages I list a wide range of “opens” within each of the layers illustrated in the Open-Source Pyramid (Figure 1), strictly to illuminate the wide-ranging, near-universal nature of this meme. This is not a complete list! The order below …

Vint Cerf: Keep the Internet Open – Full Transparency on Internet Governance Discussions Needed

Keep the Internet Open By VINTON CERF New York Times, May 24, 2012 The Internet stands at a crossroads. Built from the bottom up, powered by the people, it has become a powerful economic engine and a positive social force. But its success has generated a worrying backlash. Around the world, repressive regimes are putting …

Michel Bauwens: Is Open Source Hardware Creating an Open World?

Is open hardware creating a more open world? Feature | April 25, 2012 | By Adrian Giordani international science grid this week Just as retro ideas from a bygone era can inspire modern fashion, film, and TV trends, today’s researchers are being empowered by the revival of an innovative technology concept from the past: open-source …

DefDog: The infamous ‘take down the Internet in 30 minutes’ hearing from 1998 — Tens of Billions Later, NSA and OMB Have Not Done Their Jobs, US Cyber is Wide Open and Unsafe at Any Speed + Meta-RECAP

This is the famous hearing where Mudge told senators he could K-O the Internet in 30 minutes. It was a wide-ranging discussion, though Mudge’s claim is what the media ran with at the time. Watch and ask yourself, as Trustwave’s Tom Brennan does on his Facebook page this morning: “14 Years… have we gotten better?” …

EVENT: 26-29 Jul 2012 Portland OR Open Source Bridge

Open Source Bridge The conference for open source citizens June 26–29, 2012 | Portland, Oregon Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. Open Source Bridge is not a typical technical conference: It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. Session …

Worth a Look: Open Stack

Open source software for building private and public clouds. OpenStack OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich. …