Technologies for Free Culture World Domination Workshop 2007-06-17

Technologies for Free Culture World Domination Workshop Mike Linksvayer 2007-06-17

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 Software Free Culture P2P Open formats Open data Semantic Web Open Access Open protocols Open web Open 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 criticism Much more empirical research Prediction markets/technologies

Workshop: Going forward informed
decentralization

Experience Free Culture

Mike Linksvayer [email_address] presentation license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Technologies for Free Culture World Domination Workshop 2007-06-17

by Mike Linksvayer on Jul 09, 2008

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