Digital Tipping Point: Gabriella Coleman, An Anthropologist Studying The Free Open Source Software Movement 02 - Info and Reading Options

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! This series of interview segments features anthropologist Gabriella Coleman. You might think that anthropologist are only useful for studying bones of old, forgotten cultures, but you would be wrong. As this series of 10 interview segments shows, we can learn a lot about modern cultures and subcultures from anthropologists. Gabriella is not a computer scientist, but she does a great job of gaining enough computer science knowledge to understand what members of the Free Open Source Software movement are saying to each other. Her interviews are fascinating, because she spends much of her time thinking and talking about how people in the Free Open Source Software movement have created norms and established trust. These are really important issues, for several reasons. First, Free Open Source Software establishes the basic infrastructure for hundreds of billions of dollars in commerce every year. The Internet basically runs on Free Open Source Software, as does Google, Facebook, and most other such businesses. The US National Security Agency relies on GNU-Linux to run its computers, as does the US military. Huge civil bodies such as the City of Munich and the Region of Extremadura, Spain, rely on it. Second, Free Open Source Software is very international, as Gabriella points out, so what we learn from Free Open Source Software about collaboration can help humanity manage our complex international relations more smoothly in other areas as well. In segment 01 (Tape 105~005), Gabriella explains how she became interested in Free Open Source Software while studying at the University of Chicago. She didn't initially set out to study the Free Open Source Software community. Her interest in the topic started as a hobby. She says she becamse "caught up in the wave" that Free Open Source Software represents, and then decided to base her dissertation on the ethical and political dimensions of the Free Open Source Software movement. In segment 02 (Tape 105~006), Gabriella says she has studied the Free Open Source Software movement by hanging out on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels; by going to Linux User Group (LUG) meetings; and by going to conferences such as the FISL 5 conference where this footage was shot. She is fascinated by the fact that the developers who write Free Open Source Software are remarkably savvy about the laws that govern their work, and says that the Free Open Source Software movement can be looked at as a huge association of legal experts on intellectual property, at least as it pertains to their work. Many other professions are not able to determine the standards of their communities with as great precision and broad scope as the Free Open Source Software movement. Unfortunately, these first two segments of Gabriella Coleman's interview were shot under noisy conditions at a crowded conference without great lighting, so we covered some of the topics in these first two interviews a second time in segments 03 and 04. (The conference was the FISL Conference 5 in Porto Alegre, Brazil). This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page. <a href="%3A" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg</a> (segment 01) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg</a> (segment 02) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_003.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_003.ogg</a> (segment 03) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_004.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_004.ogg</a> (segment 04) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg</a> (segment 05) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg</a> (segment 06) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_007.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_007.ogg</a> (segment 07) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_008.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_008.ogg</a> (segment 08) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_001.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_001.ogg</a> (segment 09) <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_002.ogg" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_002.ogg</a> (segment 10) If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected] Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: <a href="http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_105" rel="nofollow">http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_105</a> and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 006, Gabriella Coleman You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: <a href="http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page</a> Thanks for viewing our video!

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