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Stefan Meretz | 1 Jun 2005 21:57

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FREE SOFTWARE, FREE SOCIETY: The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:59 +0530
From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind@...>
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The Free Software Free Society Conference held at
Thiruvananthapuram during May 28-29 adopted a declaration that called
upon the social and political institutions to eliminate systems that
hinder the development of the knowledge society (see
www.gnowledge.org). ~regards Anivar Aravind GAIA (Global Alternate
Information Applications)
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FREE SOFTWARE, FREE SOCIETY
The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration
May 29, 2005

We are currently living in a world that is increasingly
getting interconnected and the issues of our concern are becoming
global. Along the way, new Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs) transformed the process of knowledge construction and
dissemination in our society. This process is transforming other
fields of human creativity as well — including music, painting or
writing. Human history is calling us to take note of this change.
Creative works today live in a digital world, travel at the speed of
light, get transformed in seconds, become part of several other
creations, and grow in a number of other ways.

As society transforms drastically, we — students, engineers,
IT professionals, social activists, lawyers, elected
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Robin Green | 4 Jun 2005 23:42
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[ox-en] Decentralising production with open-blueprint, self-replicating devices

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html

The machine that can copy anything

By Simon Hooper for CNN
Thursday, June 2, 2005 Posted: 10:48 AM EDT (1448 GMT) 

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A revolutionary machine that can copy itself and manufacture everyday objects
quickly and cheaply could 
transform industry in the developing world, according to its creator.

The "self-replicating rapid prototyper," or "RepRap" is the brainchild of Dr. Adrian Bowyer, a senior
lecturer in mechanical 
engineering at the University of Bath in the UK.

It is based on rapid prototyping technology commonly used to manufacturer plastic components in industry
from computer-generated 
blueprints -- effectively a form of 3D printer.

But Bowyer told CNN the RepRap's ability to copy itself could put rapid prototyping technology within
reach of the world's poorest 
communities by alleviating the need for the sort of large-scale industrial infrastructure common across
the developed world.

More: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html

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magius | 5 Jun 2005 10:06

Re: [ox-en] Decentralising production with open-blueprint, self-replicating devices

In data Sat, 4 Jun 2005 22:42:43 +0100, Robin Green
<greenrd@...>  
ha scritto:

> http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html
>
> The machine that can copy anything

It's a really powerful tool. It opens the road to local FREE production,  
based on shared internet-based FREE knowledge. It's very interesting also  
the recycling issue: when a thing is broken, you put it in the machine and  
you rebuild it!
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Geert Lovink [c] | 3 Jun 2005 08:29
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[ox-en] The Politics of Open Source Adoption [u]

> Joe Karaganis
> Program Officer
> Social Science Research Council
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> karaganis@...
> (212) 377-2700, ext. 469
> fax: (212) 377-2727
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>
> The Politics of Open Source Adoption
> Read – Contribute – Win!
>
> The Social Science Research Council invites you to collaborate on a 
> real-time history of the politics of open source software adoption.  
> We are pleased to offer a first version of this account—POSA 1.0—in 
> both .pdf and wiki versions, at http://www.ssrc.org/wiki/POSA .  POSA 
> 1.0 includes contributions from Gabriella Coleman, Kenneth Cukier, 
> Shay David, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Eugene Kim, Volker Grassmuck, Bildad 
> Kagai, Nicolas Kimolo, and Jennifer Urban, and is edited by Joe 
> Karaganis (SSRC) and Robert Latham (SSRC). 
>
> Our project begins with the observation that accounts of the Free 
> and/or Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement, to date, have been 
> oriented mostly by the improbable fact of F/OSS’s existence.  At this 
> stage of F/OSS development and advocacy, we want to ask a different 
> set of questions—not how open source works as a social and technical 
> project, or whether open source provides benefits in terms of cost, 
> security, etc., but rather how open source is becoming embedded in 
> political arenas and policy debates.  For our purposes, understanding 
> the ‘politics of adoption’ means stepping back from the task of
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Raoul | 6 Jun 2005 23:23
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Re: [ox-en] Decentralising production with open-blueprint, self-replicating devices

 "magius" wrote Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:06 AM

In data Sat, 4 Jun 2005 22:42:43 +0100, Robin Green <greenrd@...>
ha scritto:

> http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/02/tech.reprap/index.html
>
> The machine that can copy anything

>It's a really powerful tool. It opens the road to local FREE production, 
>based on shared internet-based FREE knowledge. It's very interesting also 
>the recycling issue: when a thing is broken, you put it in the machine and 
>you rebuild it!
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Indeed. This is great and important!
This "universal constructor" (the CNN article refers to John von Neumann's
idea in the 1950s) is close to the "universal materializer" Annette Schlemm 
talks
about in her Oekonux text "Das utopische Klo", The Utopian WC. (1)

It is an important and powerful mean to increase the share of digitized 
material -thus freely reproducible- in "a lot of our consumer goods", to use 
Bowyer's words. We know this is anyway an irreversible process, but this 
kind of invention may represent a great leap forward in the way to 
"gratisism".

It is also significant that "Bowyer plans to make the design of the RepRap 
available online and free to use, in the same way as open source software 
such as the Linux operating system or Mozilla's Firefox browser".
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martin hardie | 7 Jun 2005 18:29
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[ox-en] drafts

some people wrote to me and asked to have a look at this unix hitsory draft
it still has a long way to go and this  is only the inside of bell part
martin
if you want send me your comments
http://openflows.org/~auskadi/nix1.pdf
you might also be interested in this
http://auskadi.twiki.us/twiki/pub/TWiki/GeekifyTheElders/linuxtm.pdf
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"All these pregnant princesses and German popes. So glad we
had those revolutions in Europe. ....."

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magius | 8 Jun 2005 08:38

[ox-en] more on RepRap

http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/000293.html
http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/000262.html

Imho we have to try a way to fund Dr. Bowyer RepRap: ideas?

I dont want to wait 4 years as he predicted for the end of the project ;)  
Let's abolish the economy as science of scarcity..through money!

magius
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Franz Nahrada | 8 Jun 2005 10:17
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GlobalVillages, was Re: [ox-en] more on RepRap

magius <magius@...> on Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2005 at 08:38 Uhr +0100
wrote:
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>Imho we have to try a way to fund Dr. Bowyer RepRap: ideas?
>I dont want to wait 4 years as he predicted for the end of the project ;)
> 
>Let's abolish the economy as science of scarcity..through money!

A very good way to do some efficient fundraising would be to rally around
Frithjof Bergmann.

He has managed to convince the South African Government to sponsor the
first NewWork Village with Fabricator technology.

Same could work with other countries, and once we get the avalanche going
no power in the world can stop it. And he has a sharp eye on monetary
sustainability!

here is a comprehensive description of some measures he proposed: if you
read the it carefully, you see how things fits in the picture and how
RepRap Technology might be the finishing stone of a large gothic arch ;-)

However, we have much more fun if we consider the incredible array of new
raw material that technology can craft from plants (a whole green
chemistry to replace our current one after "peak oil" and make us really
independent) also part of the picture....Hence also the emphasis on Open
Source Ecology.

Franz
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Geert Lovink [c] | 8 Jun 2005 12:50
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[ox-en] The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration [u]

> FREE SOFTWARE, FREE SOCIETY
> The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration
> May 29, 2005
>
> We are currently living in a world that is increasingly getting 
> interconnected and the issues of our concern are becoming global. 
> Along the way, new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) 
> transformed the process of knowledge construction and dissemination in 
> our society. This process is transforming other fields of human 
> creativity as well - including music, painting or writing. Human 
> history is calling us to take note of this change. Creative works 
> today live in a digital world, travel at the speed of light, get 
> transformed in seconds, become part of several other creations, and 
> grow in a number of other ways.
>
> As society transforms drastically, we - students, engineers, IT 
> professionals, social activists, lawyers, elected public 
> representatives, media persons, film-makers and concerned citizens- 
> urge our world to take note of the immense potential opening up for 
> humanity, and to ensure that technology is harnessed in the needs of 
> the time to tackle the wider concerns of our planet.
>
> Free Software has convincingly demonstrated to the world we know that 
> knowledge building is enhanced by freedom, openness and social 
> consciousness; and that such features are very effective in creating a 
> fairer society and enhance the cause of the social good. In the new 
> networked and digitized society, the intangible (non-materialistic) 
> aspects of reality are becoming more important in comparison with the 
> material ones. Several years of material-centered development has not 
> helped humanity to create a better world for all; or even for the
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Geert Lovink [c] | 8 Jun 2005 22:59
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[ox-en] Incommunicado 05: information technology for everybody else (Amsterdam, June 15-17) [u]

Incommunicado 05: information technology for everybody else

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June 15: Opening Night
June 16-17: Working Conference
De Balie, Amsterdam

Organization: Institute of Network Cultures, Waag Society, Sarai.
Supported by: Hivos, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IICD.

Information and registration: www.incommunicado.info/conference
Wiki: http://www.networkcultures.org/wiki/

Incommunicado 05: information technology for everybody else

Incommunicado 05 is a two-day working conference working towards  a 
critical survey of the current state of 'info-development', also known 
as the catchy acronym 'ICT4D' (ICT for development). Before the recent 
“flattening of the world” (Thomas Friedman, 2005), most computer 
networks and ICT expertise were located in the North, and 
info-development mostly involved rather technical matters of knowledge 
and technology transfer from North to South. While still widely (and 
even wildly) talked about, the assumption of a 'digital divide' that 
follows this familiar geography of development has turned out to be too 
simple. Instead, a more complex map of actors, networked in a global 
info-politics, is emerging.

Different actors continue to promote different -and competing- visions 
of 'info-development'.New info-economies like Brazil, China, and India
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