The document discusses the benefits of free and open source software (FOSS) for research and innovation. It argues that FOSS lowers barriers to innovation by reducing costs and permissions. Many modern software innovations like Google were only possible because core technologies were freely available. The document suggests applying similar open principles to publicly funded scientific research to further catalyze innovation and knowledge growth.
There is more to innovation than secret science and patents!Derek Keats
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Opportunities to foster innovation based on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS): There is more to innovation than secret science and patents! This talk was presented at the LLiSA conference on November 24th, 2009 in Pretoria, South Africa.
Many of us work in open source projects without really understanding all the details about open source licensing and how intellectual property should be managed. In this session we will talk what it means to be open source, what "copyleft" means, how a few of the major open source licenses work, how to handle copyright ownership, and what contributor agreements do.
This was a good idea because people were working on it back then, and think it's been close to perfected. Real simple, have a Speech to Text Engine on the other side of phone lines, let people talk and then have the output sent to them via email or stored somewhere. I had done a deal for Harman back in 1995 looking at related technologies and wondered why this hadn't been done by the time I thought of it, think late 1990s.
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Opportunities to foster innovation based on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS): There is more to innovation than secret science and patents! This talk was presented at the LLiSA conference on November 24th, 2009 in Pretoria, South Africa.
Many of us work in open source projects without really understanding all the details about open source licensing and how intellectual property should be managed. In this session we will talk what it means to be open source, what "copyleft" means, how a few of the major open source licenses work, how to handle copyright ownership, and what contributor agreements do.
This was a good idea because people were working on it back then, and think it's been close to perfected. Real simple, have a Speech to Text Engine on the other side of phone lines, let people talk and then have the output sent to them via email or stored somewhere. I had done a deal for Harman back in 1995 looking at related technologies and wondered why this hadn't been done by the time I thought of it, think late 1990s.
Scale14x Patterns and Practices for Open Source Project SuccessStephen Walli
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There are two parts to the “success” of an open source software project:
Deployment growth: One publishes software to see it used. As the software is used, it reflects the dynamic nature of software, and is used in new ways to solve new problems. This leads to the second part of the success formula -- contributions.
Contribution flow: A free or open source software project is at it’s simplest a discussion in software, and without contributions the conversation fades and fails. From a more complex community perspective, a FOSS project is about the economics of collaborative innovation and development. Without a continuous contribution flow, the dynamic aspect of a software project will become static and brittle and lose its relevancy.
There are three on ramps to be built to drive the success of an open source project: Bringing new users to the project, enabling developers, and encouraging contributors. This talk looks at how these on ramps can be organized to drive growth and adoption, and to grow a successful and vibrant community around an open source project.
The talk was delivered at SCaLE 14x: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/presentations/patterns-and-practices-open-source-project-success
Very brief presentation about open vs. closed system, open source, community source, and some of the challenges by robin fay, georgiawebgurl@gmail.com.
The Internet grew out of US efforts to build the ARPANET, a network of peer computers built during the cold war. The two major players were military and academia. The network was simple and required no efforts for security or social responsibility. The early Internet community was mainly highly educated and respectable scientist. In the early 1990s the World Wide Web, a hypertext system is introduced, and soon browsers start to appear, leading the commercialization of Net. New businesses emerge and a technology boom known as the dot-com era.
The network, now over 40, is being stretched. Problems such as spam, viruses, antisocial behaviour, and demands for more content are prompting reinvention of the Net and threatening its neutrality. Add to this government efforts to regulate and limit the network.
In this lecture we look at the Internet and the impact of the network. We will also look at the future of the Internet.
The Internet grew out of US efforts to build the ARPANET, a network of peer computers built during the cold war. The two major players were military and academia. The network was simple and required no efforts for security or social responsibility. The early Internet community was mainly highly educated and respectable scientist. In the early 1990s the World Wide Web, a hypertext system is introduced, and soon browsers start to appear, leading the commercialization of Net. New businesses emerge and a technology boom known as the dot-com era.
The network, now over 40, is being stretched. Problems such as spam, viruses, antisocial behaviour, and demands for more content are prompting reinvention of the Net and threatening its neutrality. Add to this government efforts to regulate and limit the network.
In this lecture we look at the Internet and the impact of the network. We will also look at the future of the Internet.
We're living in an age of devices and applications that push the boundaries of dreams, an age of instant gratification, but also the age of Digital Rights Management and Copyright laws. With questionably illegal modifications becoming simple enough for children to use, where does the line get drawn between squeezing more functionality out of your digital devices and software and breaking felony laws? In this talk attendees will explore the justifications and rationales behind the use of questionable hardware and software modifications and understand the mentality behind why their use is rapidly catching on in the general population.
Scale14x Patterns and Practices for Open Source Project SuccessStephen Walli
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There are two parts to the “success” of an open source software project:
Deployment growth: One publishes software to see it used. As the software is used, it reflects the dynamic nature of software, and is used in new ways to solve new problems. This leads to the second part of the success formula -- contributions.
Contribution flow: A free or open source software project is at it’s simplest a discussion in software, and without contributions the conversation fades and fails. From a more complex community perspective, a FOSS project is about the economics of collaborative innovation and development. Without a continuous contribution flow, the dynamic aspect of a software project will become static and brittle and lose its relevancy.
There are three on ramps to be built to drive the success of an open source project: Bringing new users to the project, enabling developers, and encouraging contributors. This talk looks at how these on ramps can be organized to drive growth and adoption, and to grow a successful and vibrant community around an open source project.
The talk was delivered at SCaLE 14x: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/presentations/patterns-and-practices-open-source-project-success
Very brief presentation about open vs. closed system, open source, community source, and some of the challenges by robin fay, georgiawebgurl@gmail.com.
The Internet grew out of US efforts to build the ARPANET, a network of peer computers built during the cold war. The two major players were military and academia. The network was simple and required no efforts for security or social responsibility. The early Internet community was mainly highly educated and respectable scientist. In the early 1990s the World Wide Web, a hypertext system is introduced, and soon browsers start to appear, leading the commercialization of Net. New businesses emerge and a technology boom known as the dot-com era.
The network, now over 40, is being stretched. Problems such as spam, viruses, antisocial behaviour, and demands for more content are prompting reinvention of the Net and threatening its neutrality. Add to this government efforts to regulate and limit the network.
In this lecture we look at the Internet and the impact of the network. We will also look at the future of the Internet.
The Internet grew out of US efforts to build the ARPANET, a network of peer computers built during the cold war. The two major players were military and academia. The network was simple and required no efforts for security or social responsibility. The early Internet community was mainly highly educated and respectable scientist. In the early 1990s the World Wide Web, a hypertext system is introduced, and soon browsers start to appear, leading the commercialization of Net. New businesses emerge and a technology boom known as the dot-com era.
The network, now over 40, is being stretched. Problems such as spam, viruses, antisocial behaviour, and demands for more content are prompting reinvention of the Net and threatening its neutrality. Add to this government efforts to regulate and limit the network.
In this lecture we look at the Internet and the impact of the network. We will also look at the future of the Internet.
We're living in an age of devices and applications that push the boundaries of dreams, an age of instant gratification, but also the age of Digital Rights Management and Copyright laws. With questionably illegal modifications becoming simple enough for children to use, where does the line get drawn between squeezing more functionality out of your digital devices and software and breaking felony laws? In this talk attendees will explore the justifications and rationales behind the use of questionable hardware and software modifications and understand the mentality behind why their use is rapidly catching on in the general population.
Podcasting as a tool in the teaching-and-learning and social interaction toolbox in higher education: Part 1, Introduction and overview. This was from an online seminar that I did for SANTEC in early 2007.
The business opportunities in capacity building for APPS development in AfricaDerek Keats
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Telecoms World Africa Conference, May 22, 2012, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
The topic that I was given when my colleague was unable to make the conference was: "How to develop localised applications to target and profit from the African market." This seemed straight-forward until I started thinking about some of the concepts contained within that simple phrase. Firstly, assuming localised applications refer to applications targeted at local markets, it is important to realise that the current device landscape in this very large continent of Africa is quite heterogeneous. Secondly, most African countries have a scarcity of developers, more so of good developers. In a recent trip to Nigeria, for example, it was reveled that there are about 2000 independent developers in the country, compared to several hundred thousand in the USA. Many thousands are unemployed, and have very limited experience. Thirdly, while there are purely exploitative opportunities to develop apps and sell into the African market, such opportunities do not lead to the generation of local idea capital - the raw material of the knowledge economy. The real opportunity is therefore to use the growing potential of the software applications market place - both open source and (shudder shudder) proprietary - to create capacity-building initiatives, and by doing so to grow idea capital, and thence to grow the size and variety of the market. I use my 8 years experience in the African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources capacity-building initiative to discuss how this could be achieved while still creating business opportunities and growing local economies.
Functionality mashup via simple filtersDerek Keats
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Functionality mashup via simple filters is a talk I gave at the IMS/GLC/University of Michigan summit on The Coming Changes in Learning: Creating New Architectures Now!
A network for Capacity-Building in Software Engineering in AfricaDerek Keats
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A network for Capacity-Building in Software Engineering through Free Software development in Africa: The African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR). This is a talk I gave at the Google Campus in April 2007.
IfNet Neutrality existed back then we would have had no chance to put together our multicast network
unfortunately when Yahoo killed it, it stayed dead. To this day there is no multicast network that rivaled what we did in 1999 for content
This presentation uses some stats about Africa and the world to suggest that collaboration is the only way for Africa to build critical mass to address some of the challenges that we face. Once vehicle for collaboration is the set of conditions we describe as Education 3.0.
I have been privileged to be able to visit some areas of the world that are still reasonably wild. But wild places are shrinking as we humans expand our population and our impact. Spare a thought for the wild. Find a way to experience it while you still can.
Introduction to 'dKeats Innovation' and the approach to looking at human-created systems from an ecological perspective. Derek Keats is a natural ecologist, who has moved into information technology, and spent a decade in senior management of two large universities in South Africa. He brings his ecological and management experience to bear on organizations and organizational design.
Quality Assurance in an Education 3.0 worldDerek Keats
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The concept of Education 3.0 has been used to categorize a possible future scenario of change in higher education in which we will see breakdown of most of the boundaries, imposed or otherwise within education, to create a much more free and open system focused on learning. Education in the 20th and early 21st Centuries (Education 1.0) has been based on scarcity. An increasing abundance of free and open resources for use in education means that learning resources are no longer scarce, and a proliferation of networking and learning technologies that blur the distinction between play and study, means that sources of learning are no longer as scarce as they once were and that professors are not the only valid means to ensure that learning takes place.
A strategic view of document and digital object managementDerek Keats
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A strategic view of document and digital object management for the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This was a presentation given to senior managers who have an interest in enterprise digital asset management at Wits.
This is the presentation I gave on September 17th at the KLA Fall Conference in Louisville. In it, I've highlighted both issues when converting to open source software and some of the different types of software we use at our library.
Knowledge on open source software, license and usages.
Difference between open source foundation and free software foundation.
Alos, knows software categories belongs to open source.
Free & Open Source Software For Nonprofits: NTEN Webinar Gregory Heller
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In this webinar, Gregory Heller will discuss how web and desktop based open source tools and software can help nonprofits fulfill their mission.
Creative Commons, Attribution Share Alike Non Commercial 3.0
Who owns your data ans why should you careDerek Keats
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This is a video that was made from a webinar I did for Living in a connected world: Who owns my data, and why should I care? that was held by Nedbank, JCSE and EE Business Intelligence. My focus was on what ownership means.
The DBE Circular requiring proprietary office & programming technologies: An ...Derek Keats
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The Department of Basic Education Circular requiring proprietary office & programming technologies: An excellent example of how not to do IT in education in South African schools. This presentation was given at the a stakeholder meeting at the Department of Basic Education, December 6th 2013
Creating Free and Open Source Software ecosystems to facilitate FOSS implemen...Derek Keats
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Creating Free and Open Source Software ecosystems to facilitate FOSS implementation in organizations: a fresh look at FOSS policy failure in the SA government is a talk I gave at the CONSEGI 2013 government FOSS conference in Brasilia, Brazil, August, 2013
Emerging & Future Trends in ICT: How can South Africa play a stronger role in creating them - delivered as opening Keynote at the SAFIPA conference in Pretoria, Oct 19, 2011.
Using the present to create the future - the Web in South AfricaDerek Keats
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Using the present to create the future: How can we move South Africa from consumer to producer of web technologies. My keynote talk at the ZAWWW2011 conference, Sept 15th, 2011 in Johannesburg.
New challenges for digital scholarship and curation in the era of ubiquitous ...Derek Keats
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A keynote presentation that I gave at the The 4th African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference (see: http://www.nedicc.ac.za/test/Programme.aspx) on 16 May 2011.
Institutional knowledge and information ecology in a Free Software ecosystemDerek Keats
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Institutional knowledge and information ecology in a Free Software ecosystem: The early days of KIM was presented at the International conference on knowledge economy 2009. It documents some of the things we are thinking and doing at Wits only 9 months into the establishment of the Knowledge and Information Management Portfolio.
The two map slides are from http://www.worldmapper.org/
I believe used under fair use, but will gladly remove them if this is not the case.
Private Cloud Architecture: Moving Wits beyond the cutting edge. This is a talk on our private cloud architecture that we are implementing at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Computer Science for Fun in the Western CapeDerek Keats
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A Google funded project to try to find ways to make computer science interesting and fun to high school learners. Makes use of the SCNS website and radio network, as well as MXit, Chsisimba and Google Talk
Embedding presentations with Open Source web presentDerek Keats
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How to embed presentations using the Open Source, Chisimba-based web present in 9 easy steps. This is not an alternative to Slideshare, but has the advantage of integration with the KEWL3 eLearning application and other Chisimba applications. There is also a Moodle plugin available.
Beyond the traditional learning management systemDerek Keats
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Beyond the traditional learning management system: moving towards personal learning environments as prepared for a workshop at the WWW2008 conference in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2008. This was put together in a bit of a hurry, and perhaps lacks some rigor, as an example of content for the workshop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
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In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
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Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
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Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview​
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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A research and innovation perspective on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
1. A research and innovation perspective on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://kim.wits.ac.za [email_address]
2. Freedom 1 and Freedom 3 require the source code The four freedoms of Free Software Open Source Free and Software (F OS S) Free
3. Use it however you like Install a copy on more than one computer Give or sell copies to other people Just take some software and.... To understand what freedom means in the software context... http://www.flickr.com/photos/unnamed/47093936 BY-SA
4. Use it however you like Install a copy on more than one computer Give or sell copies to other people Study the source code and learn from it Adapt the source code to anything you want Give copies of your modifications to friends & colleagues Just take some software and.... Without asking or paying for permission
5. Use it however you like Install a copy on more than one computer Give or sell copies to other people Study the source code and learn from it Adapt the source code to anything you want Give copies of your modifications to friends & colleagues Respected member of a global community More marketable as a software engineer Just take some software and.... Free software Improved knowledge & skills You CEO of an innovative ground-breaking company
6. Use it however you like Install a copy on more than one computer Give or sell copies to other people Study the source code and learn from it Adapt the source code to anything you want Give copies of your modifications to friends & colleagues Respected member of a global community Facing in a lawsuit More marketable as a software engineer Criminal record Just take some software and.... Proprietary software Free software Improved knowledge & skills You Cease and desist order You Potential imprisonment CEO of an innovative ground-breaking company
8. Image adapted from Wikipedia The two layers of FOSS space in the operating of computing devices
9. Image from Wikipedia There are relatively few of them, even with all the variations There are many of them, and a lot more room for creativity Image adapted from Wikipedia
12. Scarcity Abundance Knowledge -- comparison modeled after Chris Anderson, Free: The Future of a Radical Price Protected, controlled, secret Shared, freely available, no secrets Proprietary software Free software
13. License F OS S Software Licenses Disclaimer: IANAL
14. I Am Not A Lawyer F OS S Software Licenses Disclaimer: IANAL License legal instrument – usually making use of contract law – governing the usage or redistribution of software Underpinned by Copyright
15. Copyright All rights reserved Proprietary Software Some rights reserved Free and Open Source Software
16. Derivative work CopyLeft requirement Derivative works must share the same conditions No CopyLeft requirement Derivative works do not have to share the same conditions Applies at distribution
17. Software that contains your core business model , and therefore embodies your competitive advantage in the market place Software that does not contain your core business model , and is not a major component of your competitive advantage in the market place FOSS Don't distribute Bruce Perens Differentiating software Non-differentiating software
19. Compete on quality Maximum monopoly price Controlled, legislated economies oligopolies cartels Gratis Price Marginal cost of production Compete on price Scarcity
21. Compete on quality Maximum monopoly price Controlled, legislated economies oligopolies cartels Gratis Price Marginal cost of production Compete on price Counterfeit market is guaranteed Profit Scarcity
22. In a competitive economy, prices decrease to just above the marginal cost of production
23. Marginal cost of production Compete on quality Maximum monopoly price Controlled, legislated economies oligopolies cartels Gratis Price Co-opetition Compete on price Capitalist, competitive economies Profit Scarcity Services revenue stream , bartering, shared costs FOSS
24. users can be a major source of innovation Eric von Hippel, Professor & Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management
25. Barriers to innovation The Internet – a radical decentralisation of innovation Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Harvard at the eG8 Forum on May 26th
26. Barriers to innovation Successful innovation Starting point Knowledge Permission Cost
27. Barriers to innovation Successful innovation Starting point No such thing as scratch
28. No such thing as scratch Operating systems Compilers Programming languages Core applications Databases Webserver Frameworks Digital object store Libraries Version management Scalability tools Load balance Scripting languages Virtualisation Testing eBusiness tools Graphics tools Communications tools Integrated development environments (IDE) Video production Audio production Office suites Design Web browsers CRM Accounting ERP
29. Barriers to innovation Successful innovation Starting point Knowledge Software as knowledge expressed
40. Some recent major software innovations Started poor University students 1995 Mark Zuckerberg Larry Page and Sergey Brin
41. Some recent major software innovations Started poor University students Without FOSS they would not have done it All acknowledge both the code and its contained knowledge 1995 Mark Zuckerberg Larry Page and Sergey Brin
42. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, image from Wikipedia I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the first webserver from Wikipedia When core things are free and open, there are no barriers to innovation. When Bob Khan and I created TCP/IP and a bunch of us built a platform for internetworking, we did not patent the technologies used. We set TCP/IP free. Had we not done so, it is doubtful if the Internet as we know it today would have come into being. The freedom given by Cerf and Khan, and Berners-Lee, together with Free Software made it possible. The original Google servers, from Wikipedia
43. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, image from Wikipedia I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the first webserver from Wikipedia When core things are free and open, there are no barriers to innovation. When Bob Khan and I created TCP/IP and a bunch of us built a platform for internetworking, we did not patent the technologies used. We set TCP/IP free. Had we not done so, it is doubtful if the Internet as we know it today would have come into being. The freedom given by Cerf and Khan, and Berners-Lee, together with Free Software made it possible. The original Google servers, from Wikipedia
44. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, image from Wikipedia I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the first webserver from Wikipedia When core things are free and open, there are no barriers to innovation. When Bob Khan and I created TCP/IP and a bunch of us built a platform for internetworking, we did not patent the technologies used. We set TCP/IP free. Had we not done so, it is doubtful if the Internet as we know it today would have come into being. The freedom given by Cerf and Khan, and Berners-Lee, together with Free Software made it possible. The original Google servers, from Wikipedia
45. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush, image from Wikipedia I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the first webserver from Wikipedia When core things are free and open, there are no barriers to innovation. When Bob Khan and I created TCP/IP and a bunch of us built a platform for internetworking, we did not patent the technologies used. We set TCP/IP free. Had we not done so, it is doubtful if the Internet as we know it today would have come into being. The freedom given by Cerf and Khan, and Berners-Lee, together with Free Software made it possible. The original Google servers, from Wikipedia Layers of innovation built on Freedom
46. Software in research / innovation Software that is used or created in research projects is often FOSS From what I have seen, the IP regulations make no provision for FOSS Or at least it is not obvious how one deals with FOSS in research
49. May be consumed by one consumer without preventing simultaneous consumption by others Consumption by one consumer prevents simultaneous consump-tion by other consumers
51. Africa produces 8.2 scientific research papers per million people The world produces 103 scientific research papers per million people The USA produces 690 and Canada 723 scientific research papers per million people
52. Territory size shows the proportion of the number of extra scientific papers that were published in 2001 compared with 1990, whose authors work there. Source: worldmapper.com
53. Territory size shows the proportion of the number of extra scientific papers that were published in 2001 compared with 1990, whose authors work there. Source: worldmapper.com Should we catalyze the growth of science in Africa? ...or make it harder? Publicly funded science?
54. The output of scientific research that is published in ways that are only accessible to some people, or that is locked up in the newly altered form of patents that are designed to withhold disclosure and lengthen monopoly privileges. Secret science
55. The output of scientific research that is published in ways that are only accessible to some people, or that is locked up in the newly altered form of patents that are designed to withhold disclosure and lengthen monopoly privileges. Secret science Some secret science is probably necessary ... … but that doesn't mean all science should be secret
56. Free science Research carried out for the public good (including knowledge growth), that is published in ways that are accessible to anyone with a networked computing device, and that can be freely built upon to create innovations that contribute to both public and private good.
57. Epilogue There are always barriers to innovation. The more barriers you create, the less innovation you will get. Every permission is a barrier. Secret science and patents nouveau are not the only way to foster innovation. Should we look carefully how public science can best serve the public good ? Currently, we implicitly assume knowledge to be rivalrous, and our laws and policies are based on that implicit assumption.
58. Epilogue There are always barriers to innovation. The more barriers you create, the less innovation you will get. Every permission is a barrier. Secret science and patents nouveau are not the only way to foster innovation. Should we look carefully how public science can best serve the public good ? Currently, we implicitly assume knowledge to be rivalrous, and our laws and policies are based on that implicit assumption. This entrenches 20th Century thinking and business models, and is a major impediment to 21st Century innovation.
59. Epilogue An opportunity for leadership? There are always barriers to innovation. The more barriers you create, the less innovation you will get. Every permission is a barrier. Secret science and patents nouveau are not the only way to foster innovation. Should we look carefully how public science can best serve the public good ? Currently, we implicitly assume knowledge to be rivalrous, and our laws and policies are based on that implicit assumption. This entrenches 20th Century thinking and business models, and is a major impediment to 21st Century innovation. FOSS – Free and Open Source Science
60. In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. Lawrence Lessig wonder again about what we all believe is true
61. YING YANG Free and Open Science Secret Science But how ?
62. YING YANG Who is looking after the interests of those not here yet? Not us! Should we be? Free and Open Science Secret Science But how ?
63. Attribution file: http://www.dkeats.com/usrfiles/users/ 1563080430/attribution/attrib.txt With public funds No secret science