“Green Tomorrows: the Scenarios” (Jamais Cascio)

A very interesting post by Jamais Cascio, about four different possible future scenarios, with sustainability, technology and organizational forms in mind. We should note that, according to him, open source and distributed organizational forms can lead to two different scenarios, a positive one and a negative one.
Yes, open and peer-to-peer [...]

Tags: Economy, Institutions, Sociology, Sustainability

On a previous post, I wrote that participation in an Open Peer-to-Peer Community could be either bottom-up or top-down.
Last week, while I was preparing the slideshow for another lesson I gave at Politecnico di Milano, I thought that maybe we could notice a third type of participation, that lies between top-down and bottom-up forms of [...]

Tags: Open P2P Communities, Participation

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Tags: Design, Open P2P Communities, University, Web 2.0

To design for/with a community means participation, and Open Peer-to-Peer dynamics represent a very strong form of participation, an active one, where the people produces and shares knowledge in order to solve a problem. An Open Peer-to-Peer kind of participation is a recent phenomenon, so it could be very interesting to take a look at [...]

Tags: Design Methodology, Participation

Xara

While surfing through my favourtie websites I found on linux.com a very interesting article: Lessons learned from open source Xara’s failure, written by Nathan Willis.
For us, it is intersting twice: as Xara is an open source / proprietary vector drawing software (and therefore could be interesting for designers), and because it explains which errors should [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Open Source