After the first movie and the second one, here’s the third one: RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a 2008 open source documentary film about the “the changing concept of copyright” directed by Brett Gaylor.
The main website is here and you can download a remix the source code of this documentary on Open Source Cinema:

Open Source Cinema [...]

Tags: Cinema, copyright, intellectual property, Movie Design, Music, Open Source

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 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

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