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Here you'll find people, processes, and tools to support your publishing efforts. You can use this platform to: start an open textbook project give and receive guidance on publishing open textbooks post and respond to calls for contributors, and connect with global communities that are changing the world through Open Education. We are making books to build communities, and building communities to make books. @JoeCorneli

Why do so many in the Open Source world prefer gift-style licensing (BSD, MIT, Apache) vs. share-and-share-alike licensing (like GPL)? Because the largest corporations control the dialogue and speak for the Open Source community, and it is to their advantage. Not anyone else's.

These people support writers and journalists and they are open-source. They can host and protect your blogsites.

"We provide access to open source meeting and conferencing tools, powered by BigBlueButton, running on cooperatively owned infrastructure. We are part of the commons economy."

open source, but live

"To continue advances in a Moore's Law Plus world requires co-engineering and a cooperative approach across the semiconductor industry with different manufacturers, working with academia, and open standards to create an easy-to-program environment. That is why I'm confident companies will be able to add more transistors, and manage the cost curve."

"The most unexpected part of the Microsoft Ignite keynote was the panel discussion on Quantum Computing and the potential role for Microsoft to empower this next revolution in computing with a new programming language and qubit simulator that runs on Azure later this year. While Quantum Computing efforts are likely to be immaterial to the forecast over the next three-to-five years, the amount of airtime that Quantum Computing received at the opening keynote at Ignite showcases the longer-term aspirations for Microsoft to continue pushing the envelope of technology innovation, with an emphasis on mixed reality, AI, and quantum computing."

Another future signal! A telepresence platform made by Microsoft accessible for various goggles and smartphones and open for external developers.

Individuals and organizations use this environment to set in motion and contribute to crowd-based economic processes. They create or contribute to open and collaborative projects, they crowdsource resources and harness collective intelligence.

Wiki.js is a Javascript-based wiki you can run on your computer or (better) in the cloud. It is open source and based on Node. It uses any of a number of database engines and runs on most platforms. There are modules available that allow you to run analytics, use social authentication, and choose the content editor you wish to use, and sync and backup your content to a number of storage services.

This is about afro-futurism, offering eye-opening stats about black characters in scifi-movies, offering a definition of what afro-futurism is about, and most of all it gives insight in the importance of images and stories in building empathy and new futures.

"'When someone seeks,' said Siddhartha, 'then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing. [...] Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.' " Hermann Hesse"

It's a foregone conclusion that everybody in the world will be a gamer someday. There are only a billion active gamers today. Someday there will be 7 billion, 8 billion active gamers. The growth opportunity for gaming is still well ahead of us. Gaming is the only entertainment that can be any entertainment. You and I both know that when the metaverse [arrives], we're going to spend a lot more time in game worlds, not just to game, but just to hang out, to be with people, to interact with people. The gaming market has a great future ahead of it.