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 in Finnish).

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 too much time to write also in Italian and Spanish at the same time; maybe in the future I will write in those languages again.
Meanwhile, the Twitter page, @openp2pdesign, is still a great place to get news and resources at the same time. And there is also a Facebook Fan Page, for further informations and interactions:

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So, while you wait for the new website and for new posts, I will post some videos, so you will not get too much bored.
Let’s start with “Revolution OS” a 2001 documentary film which traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement. You can watch it on Google Video or right here:

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 as a webdesigner improved a lot and it was time now to redesign and reorganize the whole website.
The website has been redesigned starting with the Fervens – A theme created by Design Disease and distributed by Smashing Magazine. Some details still need to be refined but it is working now! For any suggestion or question just leave a comment in this post.

openp2pdesign.org_1.1: the book

After a very long work, my master degree thesis has been resumed in three languages (English, Italian, Spanish) and published under a Creative Commons license in a pdf file using open source software like OpenOffice, Inkscape, Gimp, Scribus on Ubuntu Linux.

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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 society change its direction towards a sustainable one. During these months a newsletter has been preparing the path towards the conference, and it can be read now in the main website and commented on the blog.

Here are the direct link to the newsletters:

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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:

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