Presentation for Make Open Source Software 2015 (http://mossconf.ro) talking about a little history in open source and how open source some very interesting projects at the edge of open source.

1. Open Source
the Big Picture
Lucian Ghindă
lucian@devacademy.ro

2. Acknowledgment

3. A Little Bit of History

4. In the Beginning there was
Free (Libre) Software

5. And a Giant

6. Then in 1965
something happened

7. launched

8. IBM Unbundling
Software and Hardware
The Beginning of
Software Market

9. 1
EAST Coast
2
WEST Coast

10. GNU Project
Richard Stallman
East Coast
1983
EAST Coast

11. “a sufficient body of free
software [...] to get along without
any software that is not free”
Purpose An operating system

12. BSD Unix
Computer Science
Research Group
1978
WEST Coast
University of California,
Berkeley

13. Typesetting
System
Donald Knuth1978

15. 1980s
1990s

16. 386BSD
by Bill Jolizt
Operating Systems today
(based on 386BSD)
NetBSD
FreeBSD
OpenBSD

17. Meanwhile …

18. In Finland

19. Linux
by Linus Torvalds

20. Windows
32%
Unix-like
68%
Operating System
Public Servers on
the Internet

21. Open Source
Hardware

22. 1997
Open Hardware
Certification
ProgramBruce Perens

23. 2012

24. The Big Picture
Creative Commons image by https://www.flickr.com/photos/d_pham/

25. House
Communication
Transport
Society/Government
Science
2015

26. Creative Commons image by https://www.flickr.com/photos/joesixpac/
House

27. http://paperhouses.co

28. paperhouses.co
Paperhouses Is The First Open Source Platform That
Brings World-Class Design For Free To The General Public.
Free Downloadable Blueprints
Collective Of Top-Tier Architects From Around The World

30. http://opensourceecology.org

31. opensourceecology.org
Open Source Industrial Machines At A Fraction Of
Commercial Costs
Sharing Our Designs Online For Free
The Goal Of Open Source Ecology Is To Create An Open Source Economy –
An Efficient Economy Which Increases Innovation By Open Collaboration.

32. Modular, DIY,
low-cost, high-
performance
Industrial
Machines.
opensourceecology.org

34. wikihouse.cc
Open Source Building System. Share And Make Shareable.
Where Possible, Work To Existing Open Standards.
High-Performance, Low-Energy Homes That Can Be Customised
To You, Digitally Manufactured And Self-Assembled.
Design For Cheap, Abundant, Standardized, Sustainable
And, If Possible, ‘Circular’ Materials.

35. https://plus.google.com/+SketchUp

36. Communication
Creative Commons Image by https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera

37. http://neo900.org
Based on
OpenPhoenux
GTA04
Open Platform

38. http://phoneblocks.com
http://www.projectara.com
Modular hardware
ecosystem
You can create using MDK
your own module or to
share it on Ara Market
Place.

39. http://www.puzzlephone.com

40. http://diy-devices.com/devices/cellphone/
Working cellphone that you can
make yourself.
Built on the hardware and software
in the Arduino GSM Shield.
The source files for the cellphone
are hosted on GitHub.
Two variations: black and white
LCD or eight-characters matrix of
red LEDs.

41. http://openbts.com

42. Cell Phone System
50.000 people over 77 km2
50.000 SMS
7.000 voice calls
working with normal phones

43. Elphel
AXIOM

44. Image from http://liviniawalls.com/ Image from http://wikipedia.com
Elphel camera used by

45. TeslaMotors: All Our Patents Belong To You

46. http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
Open Source & Governments

47. Open Source City Model
All meetings are open to the public, with
very few exceptions.
Citizen collaboration.
Having a Roadmap including citizen
inputs.
Hosting communities of passion, like
CityCamp Raleigh.
The City is adopting a release-often,
release-early strategy.
http://www.raleighnc.gov

48. City of Munich
Approximatively 15.000
computers switched to Linux.
Project started in 2004 and
finished in 2013.
Peter Hofmann (in charge with
LiMux project): ”Our main goal
was to become independent“

49. WikiBill
http://mikegatto.wikia.com/wiki/MikeGatto_Wiki
To contribute, simply click the
blue "Edit" button below,
next to "DRAFT LEGISLATION
HERE"

50. Open Government
Open Data
Citizens should have access to
the documents of the
government.
Open data is about exposing this
information in open formats
(under Creative Commons) so
that everyone can use it.
Example:
data.gov.ro , data.gov,
data.raleighnc.gov

51. Law Repositories on Git
https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze
This Git repository contains all German federal laws and regulations in
Markdown format.
https://github.com/g0v/twlaw
This repo aims to make Taiwan laws easy to process by computer geeks.
https://github.com/statengeneraal/laws-markdown
A human-legible version of Dutch laws tracked with changes since 2010.
https://github.com/divegeek/utahcode
This repository contains the complete Utah Code; the laws of the state
of Utah.

52. The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
(Image: CERN - http://home.web.cern.ch/)

53. https://www.youtube.com/user/boltzmann138

54. Thank you!
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Twitter: @lucianghinda
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