Open Source Ecology
نویسنده
چکیده
We are developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY (Do It Yourself) fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
منابع مشابه
Free and open source geographic information tools for landscape ecology
Geographic Information tools (GI tools) have become an essential component of research in landscape ecology. In this article we review the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and GI tools in landscape ecology, with an emphasis on free and open source software (FOSS) projects. Specifically, we introduce the background and terms related to the free and open source software movement, then ...
متن کاملMaking and Sharing Knowledge at Electronic Crossroads: the Evolutionary Ecology of Open Source
Based on the analysis of developer mailing lists of two large-scale open source projects, we argue that, in open source development, processes of knowledge making and sharing exploit the structuring properties of high density, massive interaction for evolutionary purposes. The mailing lists reveal patterns of activity and resource distribution that exhibit ecological features. A high number of ...
متن کاملEcology and Dynamics of Open Source Communities
The goal of this chapter is to document the evolution of a portfolio of open source communities. These are communities formed around a set of related projects with common governance, which often produce artifacts shared among all projects. It helps to think of a portfolio of project communities as an ecology, in which the projects are mutually dependent, and there is both cross-project collabor...
متن کاملThe Knowledge Ecology of Open-Source Software Projects
In this paper we characterize the processes of knowledge making in open-source software projects as an ecology of agents, artifacts, rules, resources, activities, practices and interactions. In order to grasp its dynamic features we consider open-source software projects as interactive systems based on dense interactions between humans and technical artifacts within electronic media. Technology...
متن کاملInternet, Innovation, and Open Source: Actors in the Network
This paper describes the evolution of the Linux operating system, and studies dynamics of socio-technical change using Linux as a case example. Theoretical models of community-based practice and learning are combined with actor-network theory, and the characteristics open source development model are described using the introduced theoretical concepts. The paper analyses the growth and developm...
متن کامل