Tag: open source

Lessons from Koha in Open Source Project Ownership

By OpenSource.com

05.20.13, 8:41am Comments (0)

Looking into ILS uncovered a story which provides valuable lessons for open source project ownership, including branding, trademarks, and conflict resolution. Read more »

Open Tech Forever Challenges Proprietary Innovation

By Mira Luna

05.01.13, 8:32am Comments (6)

Open Tech Forever is emerging as a force to push open source hardware innovation to new heights with a participatory platform that could transform the way we design, develop, and do business. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Guides to Open Source (Almost) Everything

By Kelly McCartney

04.11.13, 8:21am Comments (2)

This Week in Sharing offers up guides to all sorts of open source needs, from education to mapping to, yes, the zombie apocalypse. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Land Use, Minimalism, and Open Source

By Kelly McCartney

03.21.13, 10:36am Comments (0)

This week in sharing looks at reality television in Britain, data collection in Haiti, city streets in North America, and open source in urban schools. Read more »

Printing Guns: Open Source at its Limits

By Willie Osterweil

03.19.13, 5:57am Comments (4)

Defense Distributed hopes to create open source, open design 3D-printable guns and distribute them freely across the internet. Read more »

Is Open Source the Solution to Global Warming?

By Joe Brewer

03.18.13, 8:52am Comments (4)

The solution to a massively complex global ecological crisis may be to spread the sharing meme. And here's an exciting opportunity to test it in the real world. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Ideas, Ideas, and More Ideas

By Kelly McCartney

03.14.13, 9:37am Comments (0)

This Week in Sharing, ideas reign supreme - from urban agriculture and urban planning to open source mathematics and open tech education. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Libraries, Cities, and Data

By Kelly McCartney

02.21.13, 11:32am Comments (0)

This Week in Sharing brings us open data, driver incentives, micro apartments, and the top 10 happiest cities in the world. Read more »

Siri, Print Me a Chair.

By Sam Muirhead

02.20.13, 3:08pm Comments (0)

When you combine 3D software with digital fabrication equipment like CNC mills and laser cutters, you're just a few mouse clicks away from your own quasi-futuristic space furniture. That's the theory, anyway. This week I've been experimenting with creating my own open source chairs and there's more to it than just hitting Ctrl+P. Read more »