Gaia – an open source community celebrating nature
Posted on 19. Sep, 2010 by Marius Bauer in Campaigns we support, Open culture, The movement
It all started in 2007, with five people discussing how we could support our environment in an online forum. My four friends and I talked about how we could raise awareness of the beauty of nature and the problems our planet is facing. We decided to do what we love to do: create digital art. [...]
Interview with opensource.com
Posted on 09. Sep, 2010 by timrayner in Open culture, The movement
After Simon wowed the audience at the OFFF Festival in Paris in June, Joshua Gajownik and Jason Hibbets from the online magazine opensource.com got in touch to say how much they liked the project. They were keen to amplify our message, and we were super-keen to speak to their readers, so we decided that an [...]
10/10/10 Beijing Global Work Party
Posted on 02. Sep, 2010 by timrayner in Coalition Events
We are pleased to announce that Coalition of the Willing will be screening as part of the 10/10/10 Beijing Global Work Party! The screening is being organized by Greening the Beige, an eco-minded arts collective, who is collaborating with the 350.org‘s Chinese Working Team to host a week-long event series from Oct 4 – 10th. [...]
The case for open source design
Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by timrayner in Open culture
Open source design is taking off. Fired by the success of the open source collaboration model in software design, creative communities are applying open source approaches to other realms of design, including computer hardware, electronics, humanitarian design, and prosthetics. There are, however, significant challenges presented to these projects. Opening design processes to sharing and multiple [...]
Coalition of the Willing: memories of a collaborative process
Posted on 19. Aug, 2010 by timrayner in The movement
Simon Robson and I started work on Coalition of the Willing in July 2008, when Simon was living in Sydney, Australia. We’d met through Simon’s partner, Emma Ward, who’d happened to have enrolled in one of my Philosophy for Change classes earlier in the year. I was a big fan of Simon’s work, having seen [...]
