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The Ladyfest arts festivals could be seen as an example of open source principles in community organizing. 1) The notes of the development process of the first festival (Olympia, WA, 2000) were posted online to serve as a resource for others who would want to organize similar events. This included minutes of meetings, budgets, committee structure, etc. 2) The name was offered up for any other groups to use. As I understand it, the only condition was that no city or town host a Ladyfest festival more than once. (This rule was broken in 2005 when another Ladyfest festival took place in Olympia.) More than 100 festivals have taken place since 2000... all over the US and the world (Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, South Africa, etc). This is the statement from the first Ladyfest festival: Ladyfest is a non-profit, community-based event designed by and for women to showcase, celebrate and encourage the artistic, organizational and political work and talents of women. It will feature performances by bands, spoken word artists, authors, visual artists and more!!! It will include workshops, panels, and dance parties. This is a woman-run event but all are welcome to attend. >Hi Janet, > >Thanks for you reply. > >> > I would be interested if anyone on this list has concrete examples where >> > FLOSS has been used to model a non digital project/community/organisation, >> > beyond the simple inspiration that can provide the openness suggested by >> > FLOSS models and the simple use of FLOSS for production/admin tasks. >> >> Zittrain has been talking about the generative internet >> http://www.isoc-ny.org/\?p=195 >> These are all projects where people make in ways which are generative. >> http:/wikipedia.org >> http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia >> http://en.wikiversity.org/ >> http://barcamp.org/ >> http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/54 >> http://ccmixter.org/ >> http://commons.org/ >> http://icommons.org/ >> http://creativecommons.org/ > >I think you misunderstood my question, I was more interested in learning >about projects and organisations in which the structure of the >organisation is modeled after FLOSS development models, not the content >that the organisation if occupied with or the tools they use or develop. > > >> I think there is a correlation between the idea of making in a >> generative way and >> the kinds of freedoms which are explicit in GNU/Linux free software. > >By the way, I assume that you meant the freedoms in the GPL license. >In my opinion you cannot compare the freedoms explicit in the GPL >license and at the same time give examples with CC licensed content. >GPL is a workaround to copyright, CC is simplification of copyright. >These are 2 very different things in terms of freedom and ideology. > > >a. > ------ Al Larsen MFA Candidate and Instructor Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo http://www.propertyistheft.com/ http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/ http://www.propertyistheft.com/courses/ On Fri Apr 25 6:13 , aymeric mansoux sent: >Hi Janet, > >Thanks for you reply. > >> > I would be interested if anyone on this list has concrete examples where >> > FLOSS has been used to model a non digital project/community/organisation, >> > beyond the simple inspiration that can provide the openness suggested by >> > FLOSS models and the simple use of FLOSS for production/admin tasks. >> >> Zittrain has been talking about the generative internet >> http://www.isoc-ny.org/\?p=195 >> These are all projects where people make in ways which are generative. >> http:/wikipedia.org >> http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia >> http://en.wikiversity.org/ >> http://barcamp.org/ >> http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/54 >> http://ccmixter.org/ >> http://commons.org/ >> http://icommons.org/ >> http://creativecommons.org/ > >I think you misunderstood my question, I was more interested in learning >about projects and organisations in which the structure of the >organisation is modeled after FLOSS development models, not the content >that the organisation if occupied with or the tools they use or develop. > > >> I think there is a correlation between the idea of making in a >> generative way and >> the kinds of freedoms which are explicit in GNU/Linux free software. > >By the way, I assume that you meant the freedoms in the GPL license. >In my opinion you cannot compare the freedoms explicit in the GPL >license and at the same time give examples with CC licensed content. >GPL is a workaround to copyright, CC is simplification of copyright. >These are 2 very different things in terms of freedom and ideology. > > >a. > ------ Al Larsen MFA Candidate and Instructor Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo http://www.propertyistheft.com/ http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/ http://www.propertyistheft.com/courses/