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Wired 11.11: Open Source Everywhere Open Source Everywhere Software is just the beginning … open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation. By Thomas Goetz Cholera is one of those 19th-century ills that, like consumption or gout, at first seems almost quaint, a malady from an age when people suffered from maladies. Since cholera kills by driving fluids from the body, the treatment is to pump liquid back in, as fast as possible. "It's a health problem, but it's also a design problem," says Timothy Prestero, a onetime Peace Corps volunteer who cofounded a group called Design That Matters. But the team needed more medical expertise. ThinkCycle's collaborative approach is modeled on a method that for more than a decade has been closely associated with software development: open source. Open source, of course, is the magic behind Linux, the operating system that is transforming the software industry. In the Beginning Linus
Designing Convertbot With the surprising success of Weightbot, it was only a matter of time before we would take on the challenge of outdoing ourselves. We knew people were expecting something big from Tapbots the second time around so what’s more impressive on the iPhone platform than a unit converter? Pretty much anything. In name alone, Convertbot is probably the last application people would expect to see from us. But the truth is, converting units, while extremely ordinary, is a very useful utility for many people. Getting Started The first step was to set up the groundwork for the application. The audience was also an important factor. Designing the Interface It didn’t take long to come up with a working solution for the interface. The look and feel of the app had to build upon the Tapbots Brand. The User Experience The 3-Step Unit Selection Process We’ve had a few complaints about this and I knew this would be a an issue for some the moment I asked Paul to implement it. Limited Data What is Intuition?
Le logiciel libre moteur de recherche Apple Archives ~ Flyosity by Mike Rundle Entries From The Apple Category: Back when I was doing design work for clients, it seemed like my work would get re-purposed by fledgling and not-so-fledgling designers every month. Sometimes I'd get a tip in my email about a theft that someone saw, or sometimes the offenders would link the assets right off my client's website, but regardless of how I found out about the theft, it'd piss me off more than anything else. I was the one who opened Photoshop, I cranked through iteration after iteration, I thought of execution details in the shower, I stayed up late at night, and then someone else just takes all that work and passes it off as their own. Sure, usually there were some slight modifications, but designers can always tell when someone else is using their design. Lack Of Understanding A few friends and I were the co-founders of 9rules, one of the largest independent blog networks of its day. "Here’s the problem with copying: Copying skips understanding. The emulation of physicality.
Government Are we on the cusp of seeing dramatic changes in the way governments operate by publishing and consuming open data? Mark Headd, Developer Evangelism at Accela seems to think so. Earlier this year, Croatian political party ORaH published a new policy that relies heavily on open source solutions, addresses the dangers off vendor lock-in, and insists on open document standards. Best of all, they did it the open source way. The Open Election Data Initiative wants to give access to election data for a true picture of an election process, including how candidates are certified, how and which voters are registered, what happens on election day, whether results are accurate, and how complaints are resolved. The Government of India (GOI) has adopted a comprehensive and supportive open source policy. The impact of technology on society and the economy continues to excite and challenge government. The history of creativity and how the rise of it has propelled open data forward today.
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