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The Zimmer Twins: Crowdsourced animation for kids

The Zimmer Twins is a Canadian project that combines crowdsourcing with children and animation. And makes money doing it.

The site has been around for five years and accomplished quite a bit, but if like me, you're not Canadian and don't have pre-teen kid, you may never have heard of it. » Read more

2 CommentsPosted 2 Nov 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Poll: Your open source guru-ness

The opensouce.com community is growing fast, and we're trying to figure out who we are and what we care about. The more we know about ourselves, the more relevant our content and discussions will be.

These polls aren't scientific, but they will give us a useful snapshot of of our growing community, so we can plan better for the future.

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5 CommentsPosted 1 Nov 2010 by Colin Dodd (Red Hat)

Save the world: Answer the FEMA challenge

Yesterday, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate took the stage at the 2010 TEDMED Conference in San Diego, CA, to announce a new public challenge to come up with creative ideas on how we can prepare communities before disaster strikes.  » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 29 Oct 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

From information overload to Dark Ages 2.0?

Professionally and personally, we are an increasingly digital culture. The physical distribution channels for information, data, news, stories, and conversation we learned from as young minds are waning in popularity. Books, TV, tapes, CDs, radio, newspapers, and magazines are in decline as the music, entertainment, business information, personal conversations, and current events we demand get delivered to us in an inbox, feed, app, or social network.
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1 CommentPosted 29 Oct 2010 by Cheryl McKinnon

Recap: Open Your World webcast with Joseph Reagle, author of Good Faith Collaboration

What differentiates Wikipedia from other reference books where you have no idea of the process that went into them is that the Wikipedia encyclopedia is an artifact of an active community. A large one, in fact, with about 41,000 contributors editing five or more times a month and 1,000 active administrators. The "Wiki" part has its origins with Ward Cunningham, who saw it on the "Wiki Wiki Shuttle Bus" at the Honolulu airport. » Read more

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4 CommentsPosted 21 Oct 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Micki Krimmel: NeighborGoods, community building, and open source dating

Open source dating you say? We'll get there. First things first, what an impressive resume. I discovered Micki Krimmel on Twitter (@Mickipedia) and was immediately impressed by her breadth of experience in community building.

Micki Krimmel Founder & CEO, NeighborGoods.net

Krimmel is the founder and CEO of NeighborGoods.net, a community where you can save and earn money by sharing stuff with your neighbors. She has almost a decade of experience in building online communities. It started at Participant Media, where she helped build an online community for Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth."

What I realized as I started to learn more about Micki's work was that she's been doing things the open source way for about as long as I have--she just doesn't call it that. Krimmel is talking about participation and humility in a different context, but it means the same thing. Let's find out more. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 20 Oct 2010 by Jason Hibbets (Red Hat)

How Wikipedia works: Webcast with author Joseph Reagle, Thurs. Oct. 21

On Thursday, Oct 21, opensource.com will host a webcast with Joseph Reagle, a leading scholar and expert on Wikipedia's collaborative culture. He is also the author of the new book on the subject, “Good Faith Collaboration.” » Read more

1 CommentPosted 19 Oct 2010 by Jonathan Opp

Joan Siefert Rose on the insanity of entrepreneurship

Joan Siefert Rose is the president of CED, a 25-year-old organization with 5,500 active members who promote and work to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture in North Carolina and the Research Triangle area in particular. She gave a talk at today's TEDx Raleigh event outlining the six symptoms of what she called the "Insanity of Entrepreneurship." » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 15 Oct 2010 by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat)

Beautiful technology: The Open Source Satellite Initiative

Song hojun is an engineer.

His background is electrical engineering and computer science--he completed his Master's at ICU Engineering in Korea. He works on things like satellites and sophisticated machines designed to avert war. » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 15 Oct 2010 by bascha (Red Hat)

Fund-raising and self-publishing (the open source way), Part two

This is the second part of a two-part series examining an open source publishing project--an art book--as a fund-raising effort. If you missed it, you might want to catch the first half in our archives.

Publishing

Print-on-demand self-publishing companies abound. The trouble with most of them--if you want to stick with open source--is that they » Read more

0 CommentsPosted 11 Oct 2010 by Beverly Pearl