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 [...]

Tags: Free Software, history, intellectual property, Internet, Linux, Open Source, Technology

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 [...]

Tags: copyright, Free Software, hacker, hacking, history, Information Society, intellectual property, Internet, Open Source, Technology

After a very long work, openp2pdesign.org version 1.1 is ready, both in its website form and in its book form!
Starting in February of 2007 with the initial idea to publish my master degree thesis and further study these subjects, we reached now a first milestone.
openp2pdesig.org version 1.1
In the past one year and half my skills [...]

Tags: Activity Theory, Aesthetics, Design Methodology, Enabler, Internet, Open P2P Communities, Open P2P Design, Service Design

During the last six months I have been honoured to work as the administrator of the website, newsletter and blog of the Changing the Change conference, which will be held in Turin on 10th-11th-12th of July 2008:
http://www.changingthechange.org
This conference will be an international social event dedicated to study how design (and especially design research) could help [...]

Tags: Design Research, Internet, Italy, Sustainability, University

Thanks to Stefano Mizzella, we have an interview with Gianandrea Giacoma about Sci(bzaar)net (in Italian) that summarizes the event’s main themes and conclusions. The interview can be found on the last number of 7thfloor magazine and here on Scribd:

Tags: Internet, Italy, Science, University