Technologies for Free Culture World Domination Workshop
Mike Linksvayer2007-06-17
Workshop on opportunities, challenges and dependencies across
the open movements (many of which are fundamentally
technological)
10000m view
Grounding in project examples
Mapping strengths, weaknesses, dependencies, gaps across
open
Identify commonalities
Distill core technical challenges and opportunities
How should this inform actions going forward?
In workshop notes are red
Free/Libre/Open Source SoftwareFree CultureP2POpen formatsOpen
dataSemantic WebOpen AccessOpen protocolsOpen webOpen education
Obvious 1
Challenge to FLOSS: Web applications
Partial solutions from nearly every category, most completely
and tenuously from P2P
Obvious 2
Legal challenges to P2P
Only FLOSS has survived
(How much has legal cloud impacted P2P beyond filesharing? Would
Web ~2 be less centralized without chilling of P2P?)
Obvious 3
DRM threat to Free Culture
FLOSS not amenable to DRM
(Cory's fun comment about demands that computers be made worse
at copying)
Grounding in project examples
How will your project be relevant and helpful in 10 years?
10000m view
Grounding in project examples
Mapping strengths, weaknesses, dependencies, gaps across
open
Identify commonalities
Distill core technical challenges and opportunities
How should this inform actions going forward?
Workshop: FLOSS
Strengths
it works; can fix if it doesn't work
Challenges
web applications; not fixable by most people; usability no HIG;
closed drivers; DRM; too much NIH including wrt standards
Dependencies
open formats; open networks; open hardware;
Workshop: Free Culture
Strengths
anyone can participate; permits production of free knowledge;
lots of stuff out there; wikipedia; noninfringing use
Challenges
not enough experiences; not enough crossover between sharing and
commercial economies; not using open formats; illiteracy/access to
tools; versioning
Dependencies
open formats; free software (continuity, no-DRM, access to
tools); open formats; non-centralized sharing platform; non-broken
Internet;
Workshop: P2P
Strengths
scalability; failure safe
Challenges
research project; bandwidth; latency; NAT; legality; web
applications; business models for P2P development
Dependencies
open networks; free culture; free software
Workshop: Open formats
Strengths
interoperability
Challenges
closed formats have critical mass; marketing; patents
Dependencies
free software
Workshop: Open data
Strengths
Challenges
Dependencies
Workshop: Semantic Web
Strengths
Challenges
Dependencies
Workshop: Commonalities
decentralization
willingness to collaboration/user innovation
Workshop: Core Tech Challenges
web applications
legality
common architectural format/compatibility
Crazy? Tilting at windmills?
Is world domination remotely possible for any of the opens?
Is irrelevance a real threat for any?
How can we know?
More theory on societal salience (e.g. Benkler)More (any?) good
and broad criticismMuch more empirical researchPrediction
markets/technologies
Workshop: Going forward informed
decentralization
Experience Free Culture
Mike [email protected]
presentation license
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