Ever Widening Adoption of Open Source Ways

For our adventures across ideas and ideals tonight, we have:

• Is it “OSS”, “FOSS”, “FLOSS”, “F/LOSS”, “F/L-OSS”, or “copyleft”?
• Or the complete freedom of the “commons” or the “Public Domain”?
• What do we mean by being “open” or “open source”?
• What else might be meant?

But regardless of all the surrounding jargon, does all this “openness” stuff work? Usefully?

In our strange times of ‘Brexit‘ and extreme-capitalism and Dawkins’ “Selfish Gene“, and a little Zen:

Please come along to share some open ideas and happenings for how various areas in and far beyond the world of IT are being made cooperatively better, for something better for everyone all around.

All at our usual 7:30pm Organ Grinder venue.

(We are the easily identifiable group with electronics and penguins somewhere near a power supply. We may move up to the function room if things get busy. Just ask the friendly bar staff!)

All welcome 🙂

Talk notes

Some key example links are:

• Wikipedia: Free and open-source software
• opensource.com: New glossary [of] common open source related terms
• opensource.com: 6 motivations for consuming or publishing open source software
• ZDNet: Why Microsoft loves Linux
• LinuxInsider: Linux Foundation’s Open Source R&D Worth $5B
• opensource.com: Hacking the farm with low-cost, open source tool designs
• Fierce Medical Devices: Open-science nonprofit trots out promising data from study of iPhone app for Parkinson’s
• Quartz: How to access a million stunning, copyright-free antique illustrations released by the British Library
• opensource.com: Rebuilding Ecuador’s economy with open source principles
• TechCrunch: Scientist Is Using Open Sourced Software Techniques To Turn Bugs Into Patent-Free Drugs – Chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs.
• The Baltimore Sun: New strategy would drop college textbook costs to zero … “open-source” electronic textbooks…
• Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies: The Social Fabric of a Technically Advanced Society
• opensource.com: What makes your developers stick around? – “There is so much human potential. I see it everywhere… Currently our currency is greed, at any cost. Technology is only pursued if there’s profit and thus most people do not benefit from the revelations we’ve made. Our innovation is being held captive by greedy, small, fearful minds and the systems to which they cling. To move forward and truly become a technically advanced society, we must change the story of our lives from competition to collaboration…”

And there is BrewDog Went FLOSS!

… And lots more! Phew!! 🙂