How open source software comes about is still a myth for lots of people. The notion that a group of people with no monetary reward can get together and create something as complex as an operational system like Linux challenges all our previous notions of the market laws of production. In this video presentation, Karl Fogel, open source developer and writer of the book Producing Open Source Software, guides us through the key principles of open source communities.
The Eyewriter Project is an on-going effort to empower Phisically paralyzed artists to get back to creation. Powered by DIY tools and opensource software, the group has put together an amazing video showing the technology being used by the legendary LA graffiti writer Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE, was almost completely physically paralyzed, except for his eyes after being diagnosed with ALS in 2003. This is truly moving.
The Folha Seca, one of our boards developed in collaboration with Brazilian ecological company Fibra, was featured in last weekend’s Esporte Espetacular. We are still working to put the board on the market but it’s great to see our project getting this kind of attention. The snippet of the TV program can be seen online. It is great to see in the video, Bob Burnquist’s similar efforts to put an ecologic board on the market! way to go Bob, maybe we should do something together!
Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor explains how our right and left brain hemispheres controls our lives by sharing her own experiences of a brain stroke. Her talk truly moved me, absolutely brilliant.
Back in 2005, Clay Shirky presented, among other interesting points, a good reflection on the values of contribution between people part of a institution and a group of collaborators. Anyone concerned in understanding more of where we are going should take some minutes to watch it.
There is something evo about record breakers and because of that I have put up this list of videos from the world’s biggest skateboards. If you wanna help built the next biggest board, lets chat, but there will be no open source in here, it’s going to be top secret for the sake of competiton.
Charles Leadbeater’s speech at TED about creative collaboration and user generated innovation, gives us a brilliant overview about how innovation is more and more coming from passionate users other than from closed laboratories inside of big companies R&D departments.
Anyone interested in the influence of this thoughts in new kinds of businesses should definitely watch it over and over again. Charles Leadbeater, Lets Evo loves you. Thank you.
