Ten Years of Scratch: Happy Scratch Day!
To see the Scratch Cat rolling through the floors of the MIT Media Lab does not happen quite often. However, for some especial events and adventures the orange ...
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Demystifying Open Source (part 2)
Although the marketing campaign and the creation of the OS revolution have been a success regarding the mainstreaming the OS label and the creation of a grand n...
Demystifying Open Source (part 1)
Open Source (OS) can be associated with several things, a community, a movement, a revolution, a mode of production, a culture, a non-propietary computer softwa...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 4)
OSM in Action. During the six years of history, the OSM project has been able to grow thanks to the volunteer work of an active community of amateur mappers and...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 2)
In July of 2004, Steve Coast, a 24-year-old British computer scientist and entrepreneur, started OpenStreetMap (OSM) with the objective of creating a free edita...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 1)
On January 12 2010, after the catastrophic earthquake (magnitude 7.0 Mw) near Port au Prince that triggered a humanitarian crisis, hundreds of volunteers distri...
Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 2)
Children-Computer Symbiosis and the Reinvention of Childhood Since the 1950s, researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and computer sc...