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Meeting P2P/Openness advocates in Minneapolis?

Next month I will be in Minneapolis to speak about the relationships between p2p/Open(standards, software, education, manufacturing...) and Catholic Social Doctrine at this symposium. I will present a paper titled "Catholic Social Thought and the Openness Revolution: natural travel companions".

I will have some time both before and after the event, so it would be great to meet other people interested in…

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Added by Marco Fioretti on March 14, 2013 at 21:00 — No Comments

Open Data: Emerging trends, issues and best practices

Open Data, Open Society is a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations by for the Laboratory of Economics and Management of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa.

The first report of the project, released in October 2010 under a…

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Added by Marco Fioretti on September 1, 2011 at 10:17 — No Comments

How We'll Fund 21st Century Social Movements

See the…

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Added by Suresh Fernando on February 20, 2011 at 3:30 — No Comments

Open Data, Open Society: a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations

As some readers may already know, I regularly follow Open Government and Open Data issues. This month I have started working on a research contract for the Laboratory of Economics and Management (L.E.M.) of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, in the context of the Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe (DIME)…

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Added by Marco Fioretti on June 4, 2010 at 8:00 — No Comments

Open Science Summit July 29-31 Berkeley

"This summer, scientists, hackers, students, patients, and activists

will convene to discuss the future of our science/technology paradigm.

Topics include:Synthetic Biology, Gene Patents, Open Data, Open Access, Microfinance

for Science, DIY science, DIY Biology, Alternative Funding for Science,

Open Source Drugs, Patent Pools, Open Health/Medicine, Patient Advocacy for Innovation

Ready for a rapid, radical reboot of the global innovation system for a…

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Added by Joseph P Jackson III on June 3, 2010 at 4:47 — No Comments

Sourceforge site testing volunteers

Sourceforge are seeking volunteers to help perform site testing from around the

globe. At present, we need testers in Asia (East and Southeast), Africa,

South America, Australia, and Antarctica (seriously).

You can learn about the Beacon tool we use at

https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/beacon.

If you can help us out, we'll give you $10 via PayPal monthly for up to six… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on February 4, 2010 at 13:09 — No Comments

P2P Etiquette

I am hopefully not breaking P2P etiquette here, but my Kickstarter project funding seems to be stalled.

If I am to make further progress this year, I need to make this work.

So, I am requesting that you consider 5 or 10 dollars for the project, its is less about the amount, than about attracting a show of interest and support. This is a reasonably small sum, and you'll all have access to the full plans when they are published in march 2010. Equally important is for interested… Continue

Added by James Jones on January 3, 2010 at 2:00 — 1 Comment