code_swarm. An experiment in organic software visualization is an application created by Michael Ogawa with Processing, that gathers data about the history of an open source / free software community and visualizes it in a video. Here’s the video for the Python programming language:
code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

I’ve been studying software projects [...]

Tags: Art, Complex Systems, Free Software, Movie Design, Net Art, Open Source, processing.org, Swarm / Flock / Crowd, Visualization

Openmoko: Neo1973

We can say that these days the first mass product completely open source has been distributed. Therefore, this is the first example of a real Open Design, not tied to individual experiments or niche markets (albeit very important): the first example of how open source philosophy can be adopted not only in areas different [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community-Based Services, Free Software, Mobile, Open Source, Product Design

Yesterday was definitely a day about 3D and Knowledge Sharing…in the morning I gave a presentation about Blender during the LinuxDay 2007 organized in Milan by OpenLabs.
In the evening I watched the Life of Galileo play (by Bertolt Brecht) at the Piccolo Theatre: a play about Knowledge (its research and its sharing), and an [...]

Tags: Design, Free Software, Knowledge, Linux, Sharing

Linux Day

Within this Blog, I write about how Free Software and Open Source could be useful to Design if we want to learn how to relate tocommunities and complexity. But they can be useful as well, simply by giving us free/open source design tools!
This Saturday, 27/10/2007, I will talk about Blender at the Linux [...]

Tags: Design, Free Software

I cannot avoid to suggest you this conference about how Free Software can represent a model for local development. It will be held in Cagliari, Italy (unfortunately I can’t attend it).

“Software libero: un modello di sviluppo per il territorio”
Cagliari, 31/10/2007

Here is the program.
via | ossblog

Tags: Free Software, Local Development

Linus Torvalds:

I think the real issue about adoption of open source is that nobody can really ever “design” a complex system. That’s simply not how things work: people aren’t that smart - nobody is. And what open source allows is to not actually “design” things, but let them evolve, through lots of different pressures in the market, and having the end result just continually improve.

And doing so in the

Tags: Complexity, Free Software, Linux, Peer-to-Peer

Perché il Design dovrebbe imparare a come relazionarsi alla complessità?

Perché il territorio e le comunità che in esso vivono sono caratterizzate da una tale complessità che un processo progettuale ad essi dedicato deve tenerne conto, se si vuole che abbia dei risultati con maggiori probabilità di successo.

Tags: Complexity, Design, Free Software, Open Source, Service Design