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

I’ve just discovered that people at MIT are studying how to develop Open Source Houses and therefore Open Architectural Design projects.
MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) is a project run by the House_n department, and it will operate as an open source organization. A website will be established for idea generation, technical evaluation of [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Distributed Generation, High-tech, Mass-customization, Technology

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

Max Barret,
Social Circles

Everyone
A Venn diagram, drawn with light, showing
the 5 different sets of social databases I use:
Hotmail.com contacts, Facebook.com friends,
Myspace.com friends, MSN messenger
contacts and those in my mobile phonebook.
A total of 259 people.

via | manystuff.org

Tags: Community, Graphic Design, Maps, Social Network, Web 2.0