| Brain dump after some inspirating conversations at Kiwi Foo camp regarding getting more people to contribute to Open Source Software (and Open Edu resources etc). | |
| Lowering the barrier to entry for non programmers. Other ways to contribute? UX skills, design skills, event running, fund raising. | |
| Non coding contributions to OSS / Open Edu / Open...things | |
| Open Source / Open Society conferene is happenign soon. | |
| I’m thinking of running a session that might have 2 parts to it |
| // There was a | |
| function Planet() { | |
| // called | |
| this.name = 'Saturn' | |
| // It weigh 95 Earths | |
| this.mass = 5.6846e26 | |
| // and was 9.5 times as large | |
| this.diameter = 60268 | |
| } |
Develop concepts that explore virtual decay
...Maybe not in a way that mimics life as we know in 'meat space' it but we could explore even more options, unbound by real world physics and processes, something that represents the essence of the ever-changing, data driven, user-patcipatory space that is the internet ... and that will extend into more of an augmented reality, a new way of experiencing the world and the history of our digital life and data and its relation to time.
| This is a snippit of a long text from 'The Journey of the Void' - Ben Goertzel | |
| Who am I, a mere conglomeration of particles -- | |
| an organism flashing in and out of existence -- | |
| a web of learned and inherited patterns -- | |
| to explain the universe as a whole? | |
| And yet, |
What
System for catching visual regressions
Basically a diff tool for the visual layer of your web app. OMG awesome.