By Steve Song, on April 29th, 2008

Here is a short note on where things stand with Dabba and the Village Telco. The Shuttleworth Foundation is planning to fund the hacking/adaptation/development, to at least alpha version, of an Open Source “Village Telco” integrated suite of applications. This will be developed based on the business model established by Dabba in Orange Farm [...]
By Steve Song, on April 28th, 2008

An OpenConcept social contract, as I wrote about here, doesn’t exist yet but perhaps it is possible to bootstrap a process in which we imagine it exists and allow practice to define it. So here is the germ of an Open Concept social contract. It would be roughly based on the Creative Commons [...]
By Steve Song, on April 25th, 2008

In an earlier post, I wrote about a very cool publishing model used by a bible publishing company in the U.S. in which they were able to aggregate user demand by laying out the pricing curve for developing an electronic version of a book. This made me think about Siyavula, the Foundation’s project [...]
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