I’ve been here with my new media art homies of yester and today at ISEA 2008 in Singapore. I had the pleasure as well to speak at the CC Singapore launch yesterday and whipped up my feeder slide deck for this coming week’s conference in Sapporo on Commons Research, CC Metrics and CC Case Studies. It is going to be a lot of fun. I just have to remember to sleep a bunch today on my flights from Singapore to Sapporo, Japan.
I will then be heading to the BETA location in Guangzhou again for most of August. More news on that shortly and what I will be doing with most of mytime.
Time to sort through my thoughts on this flight…the need for downtime will never come! Just get used to it Jon!
Loic Lemur came over to CC yesterday and we shot fun video about Seesmic adding CC licensing. Loic sat on Joi’s fixie from Mission Bicycle and I sat on my wife’s cruiser for this one:
The interface looks super-awesome. Great jobs guys and thanks for supporting the commons!
Loic and I at CC
From Joi’s site…I need to get one of those Yukata’s to wear around the house. I have some awesome shoes that Lu’s mom got me from Beijing (they look like stereotypical kung-fu shoe no joke):
Great news coming out recently that our good friends over at the awesome open source mobile phone project OpenMoko have been seeing rapid success with releasing their CAD design files for the FreeRunner phone under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license. Their open design approach has spurred adoption, becoming the basis for the Dash Express car navigation device, and a popular platform for other projects such as the Debian-based WEphone. It’s gaining a lot of traction, and it looks like we’ll be able to look forward to even more successes on the open design front in the near future. Might have to pick one up for myself…
This follows in the line of similar recent adoption successes seen by other businesses taking the strategy of making their CAD files open to the public like the award-winningOpenBook project that makes designs for their laptop available for anyone to use. We’re hoping that these examples set the stage for companies to take up the business opportunities available in CCing their product schematics.
Jon Phillips is an artist and developer with 14+ years of experience building communities and growing successful media projects. He is currently developing the Open Source project the Open Clip Art Library, works for Creative Commons as Community and Business Development Manager, is growing Overlap.org and Fabricatorz.com.
