In my final paper I want to explore the history and philosophy of the open source movement and culture in order to identify some of the alternative media practices that have been developed by the members of the movement. In particular I am interested in some of the open I want to resolve the question It is open media alternative media? Since so much content has been now developed under the philosophy and presets of the open source movement I want to realize how alternative it is? For intance some of the communities that have embraced the open source philosophy such as wikipedia, creative commons, open video alliance, seem to be also examples of alternative media. To what extent is alternative media embracing the open source philosophy, ideas, approach to using technology? Is the open source a movement? if so, what kind of movement? I will focus in one of their communities in order to observe Specially on the internet, alternative media on the internet and the open source movement and culture. Computer and networked technologies and alternative media, activism. Free and open technologies, content, etc. Resitance? What is the relationship of the open source model and alternative media? There are a number of other "Open" philosophies which are similar to, but not synonymous with Open Data but which may overlap, be supersets, or subsets. Here they are briefly listed and compared. Open source software, open content (creative work), open data (maps, genome, ), open knowledge Can be a community of practice produce alternative media? alternative mapping? situationist mapping? Four options so far: Open media Project http://openmediaproject.org/getstarted/overview Open Media toolset Used by community media Open Video Alliance http://openvideoalliance.org/about_ova/?l=en A coalition of organizations and individuals devoted to creating and promoting free and open technologies, policies, and practices in online video. OVA members seek to promote open source; open licensing; public media; and the role of video in education. Wikipedia the free and open enciclopedia Open Street Maps wiki of maps >>>>Open source communities >>> now they are not only limited to software. communities producing alternative media and using open source characteristics of the community modes of production audience :: the community itself uses CC licences Alternative media differ from mainstream media along one or more of the following dimensions: their content, aesthetic, modes of production, modes of distribution, and audience relations Several different categories of media may fall under the heading of alternative media. These include, but are not limited to, radical and dissident media, social movement media, ethnic media, indigenous media, community media, subcultural media, and avant-garde media. *********************************************** OSM mapping parties haiti crisis Copyright and License OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (CC-BY-SA). You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our maps and data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon our maps or data, you may distribute the result only under the same licence. We Are Changing The License OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. OpenStreetMap is asking existing contributors to re-license their contributions under the Open Database License 1.0. For those not familiar, this page explains the basic reasons and provides links to further resources with more detail. Why do we have a license? Our goal is to provide geographic data that is free and open to all to use. To make sure that your contributions are provided free and open, and remain free and open, we have a license that says that. The change does not cover the wiki which will remain CC BY-SA. It does not cover software and software source code, which are usually but not always GPL (GNU Public License). Why are we changing the license? Our current user license is Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0. It for not designed for data and the creators of the license state, "Creative Commons does not recommend using Creative Commons licenses for informational databases, such as educational or scientific databases.". The main issues for the OpenStreetMap project are: * The current license uses only copyright law. This clearly protects creative works such as written documents, pictures and photos. It does not clearly protect data, particularly in the US. * The current license is not written for data and databases. It is therefore very difficult to interpret. If someone uses your data in a map in a book and the map has several layers, what should be the placed under CC-BY-SA. Just the OpenStreetMap layer and any enhancements? The whole map, including any unconnected layers and markers? The whole book? * It is difficult or impossible to ask questions about what can and cannot be done, as this means asking all the thousands of contributors individually to give their permission. * This means that “good guys” are stopped from using our data but the “bad guys” may be able to use it anyway. * It is difficult or impossible for folks to mix our data with data under other licenses. What are the main differences between the old and the new license? The old license is written for creative works such as text and photos. The new license is specifically written for data and databases. The old license attempts to protect data using copyright law only. The new license attempts to protect data using copyright law, contract law and database rights. The protection offered by each varies around the world. Database rights, for example, are applicable in Europe but not in the USA. Both licenses are “By Attribution” and “Share Alike”. You can read more about what these terms mean here: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License However, there is one big Share-Alike difference between the old and new license. In the old license, if someone makes a map then they have to share the map under the same license, but they do not have to directly share any data they used to make the map. Under the new license, they can put a map under any license they like, provided that they share any data enhancements they have made to our data. The main reason for this is that maps can now be made with layers from incompatible data sources. In the old license, any question about the license would have to be asked to thousands of contributors. Under the new license, the Foundation is allowed by you to publish the complete dataset as a single licensor. If there is doubt whether OpenStreetMap data can be used for a particular project, the Foundation can be asked if it objects or not. The Foundation has set up a process called "Community Guidelines" to make sure that contributors are consulted and can help define any response made. Can I trust the OpenStreetMap Foundation ? The Foundation is "dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data and to providing geospatial data for anybody to use and share.", ( http://www.osmfoundation.org ). But what happens if the Foundation is taken over by people with commercial interests? * You still own the rights to any data you contribute, not the Foundation. In the new Contributor Terms, you license the Foundation to publish the data for others to use and ONLY under a free and open license. * The Foundation is not allowed to take the data and release it under a commercial license. * If the Foundation fails to publish under only a free and open license, it has broken its contract with you. A copy of the existing data can be made and released by a different body. * If a change is made to another free and open license, it is active contributors who decide yes or no, not the Foundation ******************* Not Familiar with OSM? The Open Street Map project is a very ambitious attempt to create a user contributed vector map of the entire world. I’ve been following the project for the last couple of years and they have made amazing progress! There are a number of ways to contribute to the project (online editing, solo uploads, etc…) but one of the most fun is a mapping party; a bunch of folks coordinate to drive a city with GPS’s and upload their collective data to the system. The map data maintained by OSM is freely accessible to anyone. You can download the data and build your own renderer if you wish. Or you can use tiles pre-rendered by OSM. Here are some links to get to know OSM -