---------- Forwarded Message ---------- This Friday Night's Salon Reminder Viewpoint Books on Change and I've included a reading exerpt (see attached file) on the Open Source software world that might interest you, whether or not you can come to the Salon You don�t need to have read the books � just bring an interest in ideas and new people and new exploring together. Gather for tea, coffee,and we sit down to talk at 8 pm. No charge. For details of other salons check in at www.nexuscomputerbooks.com, and click on Viewpoint Books - Friday Night Salons
Friday, Feb 21, -7:30 pm at Nexus Computer Books, 311 � 17 Ave SW
(no charge)
The Opensource Community � exploring the power of community to effect
change.
You may even hate computers, and still there's something powerful to
learn from what some people are doing with them. Community, Linux,
�free software�, open source software development: how do all these fit
together, what is this exciting fizz doing to our ways of working,
thinking, learning? If we view it as a system, what about it is
enabling such robust communitybuilding, challenging of the corporate
behemoth, unleashing of collective creativity? This is an invitation
into conversation to both people who know little or nothing about this
powerful and exciting development and to participants in the �open
source� or �free software� community.
The open source community has used freely, passionately volunteered
work and time to create a world-wide challenge to Microsoft, who keep
the key code componenets of their software secret rather than open, and
in the course of it (open source) developed ways of working together
that challenge our notions of what organizations and communities can be.
Please see attachment entitled: PavlicekOpensurce Communty.doc
"The Course of the River Has Changed" says author Russell Pavlicek. "We
see a community that defines the term Internet speed. Community members
work quickly and openly. They rely on two way communication with each
other and with the users of their software. They enjoy a good deal of
self-rule in their work. They learn from code submitted by others. They
find joy in their tasks. And they let the best solutions rise to the
top of the pile." Russell Pavlicek
Books related:
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond (http://tuxedo.org/)
Embracing Insanity: Open source Software Development by Russell Pavlicek
The first chapter is a great introduction for people new to the
phenomenon. See Jean for access to this.
Commonspace: Beyond Virtual Community - Seize the Power of the
Collective by Mark Surnam & Darren Wershler-Henry
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