Free Software

Geert Lovink interviews Christopher Kely on the issues covered by his book Two Bits, before Kelty’s joining of the UCLA staff in August 2008. This is a really grand interview that poses all the right questions and issues, and I may engage with it further in the future, but here is just the text of the interview itself.

The subtitles are mine.

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Open-source animation

A selected list of quite brilliant free and open-source tools for beginners as well as experienced animators - be it for 2D, 3D or code based animation - can be found in our P2P Audiovisual Guide in the June 08 update (on the main page, just scroll down…). This update further includes some interesting (online) video related links…

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Ian Skerrett of the Eclipse Foundation has an interesting article at the June issue of the Open Source Business Resource. Some quotes and excerpts below.

In his lecture on “Building Technical Communities” Ian Skerrret observes:

“In a technical community: i) peers, not vendors, determine the message; ii) developers talk to other developers, not through intermediaries or press releases, and marketers produce content such as case studies that help developers sell up to their managers; iii) people speak to people, not a market or a demographic attribute; iv) employees interact with people who are saying good and bad things about their companies; iv) interactions first build trust and then build value; and iv) you learn to live with your competitors being part of the same community.