-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:47 am, you wrote:
Thanks for the reminder Mahlah. Kari and I will be there. Jarrod > ---------- 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPlUz4QCQFPa+bt49AQJIbQQAsDB46zHeuy3V0rPx8LU+xMtMYCCCQsMS HX3sZ6BoKp9QHAhXhUGmAPaOsTE9FNm6q5XAXU/QhtzCqBop67v4rKxhSCfJnq3e b1VjbALIEW7E+RaK4WhN41Fkz9hLGn7mv+bk1h4mWzKYUVxV7aax/IyRASG2h/9D 7+rh+TRwPd4= =PGlm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
