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November 16, 2012
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Open Source and the Meshed Society

Keynote address at SFSCon 2012 in Bolzano, Italy

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November 16, 2012

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Transcript

  1. Smart Innovation in a Meshed Society The Power Of Open

    Source Simon Phipps President The Open Source Initiative November 16, 2012
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  3. The Topology of Society

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  7. The Topology of Society Peers & Princes Production Lines Peer

    Production

  8. How are we connected?

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  12. How are we connected? Local Community Communication Chains Globally Peer-Connected

  13. What does business mean?

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  18. What Does Business Mean? Direct Trading Distribution & Control Points

    Meshed Engagement

  19. Smart Innovation

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  23. Software Freedom Enables Innovation Ultimate Flexibility: • Use • Modify

    • Change • Share • ... All without needing permission

  24. Open Source's Real Value • Start where others reached •

    Stay in control of your own resources • Share upkeep of your innovation • Influence global ecosystems • All derived from software freedom • Powering Smart Innovation

  25. Thank-you! Join OSI today at http://opensource.org/join All text and images

    the original work of Simon Phipps, http://webmink.com [email protected] (c) 2012, Simon Phipps, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Meshed Insight & Knowledge