After the first movie and the second one, here’s the third one: RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a 2008 open source documentary film about the “the changing concept of copyright” directed by Brett Gaylor.
The main website is here and you can download a remix the source code of this documentary on Open Source Cinema:
Open Source Cinema lets you create your own videos online, remix media that you have on your computer, as well as remix other people’s media from places like YouTube and Flickr. You can also connect with others by sending personal messages, commenting on remixes, or even joining projects that others have created.
After the first movie, here is another one, that maybe you have already discovered while reading the Wikipedia page of Revolution OS. It’s “The Code”, a Finnish-made documentary about Linux from 2001, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software movement. It’s in English with Finnish subtitles (and some small parts are in Finnish).
Back from the November tour and a change of server, rigth now I’m working on opening new sections in openp2pdesign.org, on redesigning the theme and the structure of the whole website and on opening openp2pdesign.org to more participants. As you may understand with this post, I will post only in English now, because it takes too much time to write also in Italian and Spanish at the same time; maybe in the future I will write in those languages again.
Meanwhile, the Twitter page, @openp2pdesign, is still a great place to get news and resources at the same time. And there is also a Facebook Fan Page, for further informations and interactions:
So, while you wait for the new website and for new posts, I will post some videos, so you will not get too much bored.
Let’s start with “Revolution OS” a 2001 documentary film which traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement. You can watch it on Google Video or right here:
After many months of working, I’m really proud to announce the following workshops/speechs I will give this November. I was expecting more interest in Open Design and therefore in Open P2P Design by the end of this year, but I would have never thought so much (unfortunately I had to reject a couple of invitations)! I’m still working on the contents, so expect some slideshows and texts from all these events soon.
01. Speaker at the Media Ecologies & Post-Industrial Production Conference
& launch of the P2P Research Group (an independent collective allied with the P2P Foundation)
At this event, we will discuss the emergence and proliferation of a new form of production and value creation: peer production, where communities of producers work to create (free) software/hardware and/or (open) content accessible to everyone. Within peer production, producers create products within a ‘commons’ or shared space, which can be used and modified by others who then return the product, thus improved, to the common pool. Producers often operate as a cooperative ecology between communities as well as the companies that create market-based spin-offs from that same commons.
I will talk within the afternoon sessions “Media Ecologies for Open Design Communities and Distributed Manufacturing”:
Free software-based peer production has developed integrated and sophisticated platforms facilitated by the fact that software can be executed in the same digital environment in which it is designed. But such is (at least presently) not the case for open hardware and any object that need to be made physically. In this case, much more integrated feedback loops are needed, which require more sophisticated collaboration platforms that may included designs, videos, the management of flows, recursive loops from physical experimentation; comparisons between experiments in various locales and so on. We want to know: what is the state of the art of the current collaborative platforms? What is needed? Are there any possibilities for synergies between various platform projects currently being undertaken?
with the speech “Open P2P Design. Metadesign for Open Design projects”. Unfortunately I could not organize a travel to Manchester, therefore I will be presenting remotely by video conferencing.
Few months ago I prepared a presentation in English about Open P2P Design and openp2pdesign.org that was not used; I remade it now and I decided to publish it as the shortest and easiest introduction to Open P2P Design methodology and the openp2pdesign.org project. You can find it in Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/openp2pdesign/what-is-open-p2p-design
Beside Open Design, Open Hardware, Open Manufacturing, there is another path the Open Everything phenomenon is taking: Open Money. Although the Open Money projects are in their early steps, they represent a very important strategic and metadesign move in order to enable the spreading of community-based open and p2p organizational forms.
The open money project aims to create the global infrastructure, tools, governance mechanisms and platforms that will give communities the capacity to create their own currencies with just a few clicks and thereby liberate their wealth potential.1
We should note that these examples of Open Money can be understood as metacurrencies (and here comes the Metacurrency project), because Open Money projects are the design of the rules and artifacts needed for the design of a community’s own currency. Open Money projects will be for sure an important part of any platform for Open P2P Design projects (that are metadesign projects of open collaborative systems).
Here is a great video (with subtitles available) from the Wall Street Journal that clearly explains the Open Money concept and other similar projects:
Just as there are now millions of media outlets today, currencies will follow this same evolution by shifting from centralized authoritative models to distributed ones that allow better sustainability, distribution, transparency, and regulation mechanisms. Every community (associations, companies, cities, regions, states, professions, interest groups, etc) will be able to create their own currencies for their own marketplace.2
And here is another video (with subtitles) about the Metacurrency project:
PART III: Sharing Success Stories « Art 2.0:
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