Breeding success
through openness
Chris Messina November 6, 2008
Edge of the Web Perth, Western Australia

@factoryjoe
#eotw

“Low hills closed in on either side as the
train eventually crawled on to high,
tabletop grasslands creased with snow.
Birds flew at window level. I could see
lakes of an unreal cobalt blue to the north.
The train pulled into a sprawling rail
yard: the Kazakh side of the Kazakhstan-
China border.
. . .

“Workers unhitched the cars, lifted them,
one by one, ten feet high with giant jacks,
and replaced the wide-gauge Russian
undercarriages with narrower ones for
the Chinese tracks. Russian gauges, still
in use throughout the former Soviet
Union, are wider than the world standard.
The idea was to the prevent invaders from
entering Russia by train. The changeover
took hours.”
— Robert D. Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth

☭

“Open is the new Black.”
— Marc Canter
Taking advantage of open for proprietary purposes

What is “open”?

On-demand
Personal
Engaging
Networked

What is “openness”?

Chris’ Characteristics of
“Openness”
• atomic
• transparent
• rhizomatic
• organic
• evolutionary

The Rules of BarCamp
• You do talk about BarCamp.
• You do blog about BarCamp.
• If you want to present, you must write your topic and
name in a presentation slot.
• Only three word intros.
• As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
• No pre-scheduled presentations, no tourists.
• Presentations will go on as long as they have to or until
they run into another presentation slot.
• If this is your first time at BarCamp, you have to
present.*

Photo by the Ryan King. Shared under Creative Commons.

Source: University of Winnipeg

CM

Source: Coworking on Coding in Paradise

Photo by Chris Messina

coworking.pbwiki.com

paved cowpaths of microformats
Source: Paul Downey. Shared under Creative Commons.

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• hCard
• hCalendar
• hAtom
• XFN
• hResume
• hReview
• hRecipe
• XOXO
• rel-license
• rel-tag

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#eotw

Twitter circa July 2006.

DiSo Project
& the Open Stack

Ingredients
•activities
•contacts, relationships & identity
•services
•permissions & privacy
•groups/groupings
•messaging & notifications

Technologies
...++

The Open Stack
Credit: Joseph Smarr

Google vs Facebook

Openwashing!

...Characteristics
• atomic
• transparent
• rhizomatic
• organic
• evolutionary

WWW Foundation

Open Web Foundation

One Final Thought

Photo by the Charlie Brewer. Shared under Creative Commons.

Source: NASA and STScI

Source: NASA and STScI

Source: NASA and STScI

Published by the Boston Globe. Courtesy SOHO/EIT consortium.

Source: moby.com

Photo by the Erik Natzke. Used without permission.

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