Introductory readings for students on Open Source, Free Software and Hacker culture
Crowdsourced Non-Comprehensive List developed in response to a Facebook query by https://github.com/jeffthompson
Text suggestions from Michael Mandiberg, Allison Parrish, Jeff Thompson, GS Voss, Sterling Crispin, Lee Tusman, Lainie Fefferman, Michael Gubbels. Additional readings and suggestions, especially for perspectives from women and POC welcomed.
- Open Source as Culture/Culture as Open Source - Siva Vaidhyanathan - pp 24 - 31 in The Social Media Reader - article in book
- Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - Allison Parrish - transcript of talk
- A Hacker Manifesto - Mackenzie Wark - book
- In The Beginning Was The Command Line - Neal Stephenson - book
- Creative Commons Policy / advocacy / copyright reform - Creative Commons - policy
- Thoughts on Software for the Visual Arts - Casey Reas - article
- What Does Open Source Even Mean? - Jen Kagan Interview with Lauren McCarthy - interview
- Who owns our software?—a first-person case study - Miller Puckette - article
- An Open Letter To Hobbyists - Bill Gates - opinion letter to magazine
- Computer Lib/Dream Machines - Ted Nelson - Excerpt in The New Media Reader
- The Children's Machine - Seymour Papert - book
- Oral History of Captain Grace Hopper - Angeline Pantages interviews Grace Hopper - Interview
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz - Director / Producer: Brian Knappenberger - Documentary