After some months of designing and prototyping, I am so happy to annouce you that the openp2pdesign.org store page on Lulu.com is now finally open at http://lulu.com/openp2pdesign.
You will find there all the print version of the books published within the openp2pdesign.org project.
The first book you can already find there is the print version of openp2pdesign.org_1.1, [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design Methodology, Web 2.0

Neon Organic 0052 (sketch) from watz on Vimeo.
Here is an interview wih Marius Watz from Generator.x and Code&Form about Generative Art.
It is interesting for us because it is closely related to complexity, software and design as the generative system could follow genetic and evolutionary rules or using open source software or code (but consider [...]

Tags: Art, Generative system

After the first post and second post about Open Architectural Design at MIT, here you can find a thesis about the MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) developed by Kalaya Kovidvisith at MIT and submitted on June 2007: “Open Source Building Alliance Ecology. The Internet Framework for Consumer Driven Participative Design”.
The primary purpose of [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Community, Mass-customization, Technology

After the first post about the MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) project, here is another one reporting the paper that started the project, written by Larson K., Intille S., McLeish T.J., Beaudin J., Williams R. E.1 .

In this paper, we argue that new technologies and strategies for design can enable a more responsive [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Business/Service, Mass-customization

After the first book and the second one about managing Free Software / Open Source projects, here you can find the third one: “Innovation Happens Elsewhere. Open Source as Business Strategy” by Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel.

This is an online version of our open source book based on the version published by Morgan Kaufmann [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design Methodology, Free Software, Open Source, Technology

After the first book about managing Free Software / Open Source projects, here you can find another and older (2002) methodology for managing a free software project: Free Software Project Management HOWTO, by Benjamin “Mako” Hill.
As I said before, this kind of guides are important as inspiration for open p2p projects, especially if we se [...]

Tags: Design Methodology, Free Software, Open Source, Platform, Technology

Here is the first of three books about how to manage a Free Software / Open Source community and process that are freely available online. They are very important for two reasons: they represent a good introduction to how Free Software / Open Source projects work, and they can be very useful resources in the [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design Methodology, Free Software, Open Source, Technology