The openness meme has gained credibility and vitality in recent years, with an ever increasing range of proponents advancing the cause of open access, architecture, currencies, data, government, hardware, identity, knowledge, media, platforms, protocols, source code, spectrum, and standards. Despite the popularity of the prefix, however, the layeredness of the many open applications remains to […]
Coalition of the Willing has inspired some tremendously positive responses. As you’d expect from a polyphonic, segmented film, not every response has addressed the big picture. Some barely reflect it. It is funny talking to someone who is raving about your vision, only to realize, halfway through the conversation, that the idea has them excited […]
This article is based on ‘Online collaboration doesn’t happen by magic’, on the Appropedia blog, July 30th, 2009. It was co-written using EtherPad by Chris Watkins, Mark Dilley, Michael Maranda, Tim Rayner. Just as you can’t expect to get people to a meeting or event just by putting up a flier, setting up successful collaborative […]