We went along to the Festival of Stuff hosted by UCL’s Institute of Making – eager to meet Mark Miodownik and the ‘community workshop‘ crew. We launched our first Project Report and talked to William Sieghart about the scope for closer working between libraries and hackers / makers to contribute to the independent report he’s been tasked with preparing for DCMS and DCLG about the Public Library service in England.
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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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With over 1000 affiliate companies, BP controls a complex network of corporate entities. OpenOil, in partnership withOpenCorporates, developed a network of BP’s subsidiaries that aims to shed light on the corporate structure of the oil multinational, active in more than 80 jurisdictions and with ownership chains going up to 12 levels deep. 
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couple of years ago, management thinker Charles Handy wrote a short article about the unintended consequences of good ideas. He starts by talking about the corporate towers that dominate city skylines and the inescapable irony that they have entirely glass fascia yet people can’t see inside as they pass by.
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In a former cafe on a narrow market street in South London, a small workshop called Assemble & Join, centred on a large state- of-the-art cnc milling machine, hosts lessons in the practical potential of digital manufacturing for the local community.
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Open hardware - or open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design.[1]
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I love Barcelona, and this is nothing new, but sometimes it even manages to surprise me: during the first week of July, in fact, the Catalan capital become the global center of culture of the new industrial revolution. The week of June 30 began with the first day of the beautiful, intimate and now classic, Open Design Shared Creativity conference now in its third edition.
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"The plan at this point is focused on getting Cobudget properly user-tested and minimally integrated with Loomio groups by using the Circle app to stick them together. There are lots of requests for some combination of Cobudget and Loomio. We want to go where the demand pull is, then bootstrap the ecocsystem from there." (https://www.loomio.org/d/RJnwlM1g/project-update)
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On Tuesday the news that the UK Government had decided to use ODF as its official and default file format started to spread. The full announcement with technical details may be found here; the Document Foundation published its press release on Thursday morning there.
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When the late lunch hunger pangs come on, it’s become old-hat to whip out the smartphone and survey food options via Yelp. But what if the cravings are more along the lines of staving off screen fatigue and finding the best birch in town?
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When public dollars fund a project, shouldn’t the public then have access it? It seems like a no-brainer, yet this is oftentimes not the case as data, educational tools, media and more get squirreled away in the caverns of bureaucracy or, worse yet, sold back to a public that has already paid for the resource.
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Almost everyone is using or has already used Etherpad, the famous and free/libre online editor featuring collaborative editing in real-time. But there is a missing feature in the new version which is highly desired by the community: a personal account for creating and managing groups and private pads.
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The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.
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A collective and documented directory of semantic models adaptations for the management of infrastructures and the activities they support.
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This September 10th to 14th Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation will be in Ireland taking part in OpenEverything.ie a Collaborative Economy Convergence. A series of events will take place in Dublin, Limerick and at the CloughJordan Ecovillage registration is now open and you can check out the schedule here http://openeverything.ie/schedule/ . OpenEverything is organised in partnership between the P2P Foundation, Cultivate andWeCreate.ie .
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We love open source and believe it is a better way of doing things. This page explores what it means to us and how the value of openness informs this project.
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"Stanford, pioneer into high-profile free MOOCs have just launched a new course on "Open Knowledge: Changing the Global Course of Learning"
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Simon talks recent US software patent case decisions and why they're so significant as well as the recent UK government decision about open document formats. Who are the winners and the losers?
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Our food system is broken. We're developing OFN to put control back in the hands of growers & eaters. Can you help us?
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Communities worldwide want economies that are stronger, greener, fairer, more resilient, and more diverse. Jobs must be created, climate change addressed, infrastructure repaired, schools upgraded, and more. The LEDDA economic direct democracy framework, now under development, will offer a bold yet practical solution.
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"Justin believes open development is crucially important for long-term success and notes that two ‘flavours’ of open source are emerging. He says: ‘We are seeing a difference between open source and open development. So what we are seeing is some projects and entities who are saying here is the source code, it is under Apache licence or GPL or whatever but the decisions about how the code got to that state are behind some wall—it is not in public’. This means that a developer has all the requisite rights to edit, modify and redistribute the code, but doesn’t have any real understanding as to how or why the code developed that way in the first place. Justin says: ‘So you run into some bug and you are saying why is the code this way? There is no historical context or archiving or rationale…So, [with the open development method] what we are seeing is, that in addition to “here is the code” we are seeing “here are all the decisions being made in public”.’
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