Spring of Code @HubWestminster + Guest Speaker - Spring of Code (London, England. February 4, 2013 · 6:30 PM How to find us: Your name will be on the guest list at the front desk (if you have RSVP'd).
Any problem call Marc: 07943296845 _________________________________________ After a series of tech only meetups, it is time for another of our social event where we'll catch up on the progress of each projects and hear about new ones! Here is the programme: Guest speaker: Sander van der Waal from the Open Knowledge Foundation on "10 Sustainability Models Around Free and Open Source Software". (20min + Q&A) then... > Lightning pitches (5min each) - Tiny.coop by Matt - (more projects tbc soon) > Short project updates (2-5min) - Omnifolio by Neil - Briar by Michael - OMN by Richard > Match-making/brainstorming session > Networking If you want to pitch an Open Source project drop me a line asap!
What is this about? To get an idea of what our meetings look like, see the report on last event. Hope to see you all there! Reminder: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Concepts[edit] According to Tapscott, Wikinomics is based on four ideas: Openness, Peering, Sharing, and Acting Globally.
The use of mass collaboration in a business environment, in recent history, can be seen as an extension of the trend in business to outsource: externalize formerly internal business functions to other business entities. The difference however is that instead of an organized business body brought into being specifically for a unique function, mass collaboration relies on free individual agents to come together and cooperate to improve a given operation or solve a problem. This kind of outsourcing is also referred to as crowdsourcing, to reflect this difference.
This can be incentivized by a reward system, though it is not required. The book also discusses seven new models of mass collaboration, including: The last chapter is written by viewers, and was opened for editing on February 5, 2007. Central Concepts of Wikinomics in the Enterprise[edit] Open innovation. Open innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor and faculty director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California,[1] in a book of the same name,[2] though the idea and discussion about some consequences (especially the interfirm cooperation in R&D) date as far back as the 1960s[citation needed].
Some instances of open innovation are Open collaboration,[3] a pattern of collaboration, innovation, and production. The concept is also related to user innovation, cumulative innovation, know-how trading, mass innovation and distributed innovation. “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology”.[2] Alternatively, it is "innovating with partners by sharing risk and sharing reward.
Advantages[edit] Disadvantages[edit] Models of open innovation[edit] See also[edit] Open Innovation by Bluenove.