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

I’m so happy to tell you that I have been invited as a guest contributor to the crumbweb mailing list for this month, April 2008.

This list is intended for those involved in curating, exhibiting, archiving or interpreting new media art (including net.art, interactive installations, digital video etc.) It’s for discussion of issues specifically related to [...]

Tags: Art, Open Source

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

I said that Open Source and Peer-to-Peer could be applied to design for a locality…and Matías Echanove and Rahul Srivastavache are trying to adapt the principles of the Bazaar described by Eric Raymond to urban planning.

Tags: City, City Planning, Open Source

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

Comunità Open P2P (zoom)

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Un approfondimento sulle Comunità Open P2P…

Una prima definizione di Comunità Open P2P

Prima di riassumere brevemente la parte più metodologica della mia tesi e le conclusioni da trarre, penso sia utile una precisazione su quei casi che ho definito Comunità Open P2P. La metodologia che ho sviluppato nella

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Open P2P Communities, Open Source, Peer-to-Peer, Web 2.0

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