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More about "why no new AND successful FOSS projects..."
Answering a few comments received via Twitter to my post Why no more new AND successful FOSS projects in the last ten years?
It's time for Open Data in and from (not "ABOUT"!) schools
Preface
This essay expands a proposal on Open Data in schools that I made in 2011, which requires very little, if any, funding and central authorization/coordination to be implemented. As of this writing, I know of no other proposal of the same kind, with the exception of this 2012 presentation from New Zealand. Also, I have not heard of any large scale implementation, or had occasion to do any real work on this topic. However, I am even more convinced now than in 2011 that the idea has a great potential.
Trip report: Open Data in Skopje
A couple of weeks ago I was invited at the first National Open Government Partnership Forum in Skopje, Macedonia, for the panel titled “OGP-related Initiatives at the Local Level - Comparative Perspectives”. Here’s a short trip report, complete of link to my slides.
On people offended when asked not to use Facebook, and who will die first
In December 2013 I came across something I still consider yet another proof of two things: first, much trust in the actual competence of many “digital savvy” Internet users is misplaced; second, many of the proposed alternatives to current social networks are trying to solve the wrong problem.
Who will make the percloud happen? Traditional FOSS advocates, or everybody else?
A reader of my critique to the “Linux owns the Internet” slogan just made the comment integrally copied here: