Today was the second day of the 2012 PICNIC festival in Amsterdam. My notes about the first day are available here. Below my notes and thoughts on day 2: Doc Searls - How the Old Bottom is the New Top Searls spoke at at SxSW earlier this year. I caught him there already and made … Continue reading PICNIC Festival 2012 Day Two
Tag: open source
LiquidFeedback: Interactive Democracy and Non-Moderated Proposition Development
A few weeks ago I attended a workshop about LiquidFeedback organised by Netwerk Democratie and Waag Society. LiquidFeedback is a piece of open source (MIT-licensed) software that is used by the Pirate Party in Germany to help them in their decision making process. The tool aims to deliver the following: Pure and representative democracy Non … Continue reading LiquidFeedback: Interactive Democracy and Non-Moderated Proposition Development
Moodle Changes its Approach to Mobile
I haven't been blogging much about Moodle lately, but this news excited me very much, so I'll do a quick write-up. Moodle HQ has decided to move away from native mobile Moodle app development and will switch to developing with HTML 5 and the open source mobile development framework Phonegap. This will allow developers to … Continue reading Moodle Changes its Approach to Mobile
Create More Value Than You Capture
Tim O'Reilly was interviewed by Andrew McAfee (writer of Rage against the Machine). It is worthwile to fully quote the introduction to the session: One of the great failures of any company - for that matter of a capitalist economy - is ecosystem failure. Great companies build great ecosystems, one in which value is … Continue reading Create More Value Than You Capture
Fosdem 2012 or Why Open Source is Still Revelant
Fosdem is the place where you'll find a Google engineer who as a "full time hobby" is lead developer for WorldForge an open source Massive Multiplayer Online game, or where you have a beer with a developer who has a hard time finding a job, because all the code he write has to have a … Continue reading Fosdem 2012 or Why Open Source is Still Revelant