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and You

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About Me ● Kevin Bond ● Kitchener, Ontario, Canada ● PHP Developer – Symfony Framework Twitter: @zenstruck Email: [email protected] Website: zenstruck.com

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How many?

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Do you use open source? ● Who uses open source or mass collaboration tools? ● Who contributes? ● Tools other than software?

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My CHANGELOG ● v0.5 ● Game design ● Windows development ● v1.0 ● Web development (open source tools) ● Open source developer ● v2.0 ● Contributor

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States of Interaction ● User ● Developer ● Contributor ● Developer merges with Contributor

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Free! ● “Free speech vs free beer” – Richard Stalman (GNU Project) ● Open Source Initiative branched away from Free Software Foundation ● Corporate Experience (“This software is free!”)

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License ● Importance ● Copyright vs Copyleft ● Viral license

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Documentation

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Tools ● “Weapons of mass collaboration” ● Internet ● Web 1.0 (read-only) ● Web 2.0 (read/write) ● “Platforms for Participation” ● Github

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Support ● Free market ● Finding a knowledgable consultant is easy (but sometimes unorthodox) ● Bad support is weeded out

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How to make money? ● Honestly ● Indirectly ● Anti-Corporate ● New economy (a million pennies)

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Philosophy ● Transparency ● Proprietary is like potential energy (ball on a hill) ● Like cooking recipes (recipes cannot be copyrighted) ● Parallels to nature (evolution) ● Self correcting/Self organizing system ● Secondary purposes can arise ● is the cure for cancer or the key to solving the energy crises locked away? ● Collective Intelligence

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Future ● “N-Gener's” ● Quiet revolution ● Distributed economy ● Open government