Git was another revolution. Shirky pointed out that source control systems had been around for decades, but Git exploded in popularity and found uses outside of simply tracking code. Git spawned GitHub and a number of clones, and attempts to use Git to track things that were not code. For instance, Shirky pointed to Open-Knesset an attempt to scrape Israel's parliament for proposed laws, start a branch, show how it should be re-written and debate the changes.
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open enterprise manifesto | bettermeans.org - 0 views
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An excellent overview of the Open Enterprise concept
The Future of Open Fabrication - 0 views
Open Manufacturing | مجموعات Google - 0 views
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"bring free and open source software development methodology to the physical world"
Hacking the Food System: From Proprietary to Open Design | Food+Tech Connect - 0 views
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Currently food moves from farm to fork linearly across a supply chain designed to maximize investor ROI. This linear design results in a long list of things that are bad for our economy, health, and environment
Untapped: Why the developing world must treat IT as a national resource - Cloud Computi... - 0 views
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"Open source software is not only free from license restriction; it is also free to be used as a basis for innovation, allowing custom solutions for the unique context of specific issues faced by developing nations. But for many nations, software is not enough."
Open Data Communities - 0 views
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" Open Data Communities offers Linked Data access to the Index of Multiple Deprivation datasets from the Department of Communities and Local Government. "
Remixing the Wikirriculum: The Promises and Politics of an Open Source Curriculum | DML... - 0 views
DIYbio - 0 views
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"DIYbio.org is an organization dedicated to making biology an accessible pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists and biological engineers who value openness and safety. "
Growth of Open-Source City Government | - 0 views
Clay Shirky Says Good Collaboration is Structured Fighting - 0 views
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هنا استخدامات متقدمة لغيت، حيث يستخدم لتحرير قانون الكنيست الإسرائيلي.
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Is It Better for Businesses to Adopt Open or Closed Platforms? - WSJ.com - 0 views
The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge: Creating Inspired, Open, and Free Organizations | Man... - 0 views
Social Networks - Elsevier - 3 views
NSF grant to launch world's first open-source genetic parts production facility - 0 views
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"With seed money from the National Science Foundation (NSF), bioengineers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University are ramping up efforts to characterize the thousands of control elements critical to the engineering of microbes so that eventually, researchers can mix and match these "DNA parts" in synthetic organisms to produce new drugs, fuels or chemicals."