'open source' Tag

• WikiConference New York: An Open Unconference

  September 7, 2009

  A few months ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at the first (hopefully annual) WikiConference New York, sponsored by the Wikimedia New York City chapter with assistance from Free Culture @ NYU and the Information Law Institute at NYU’s law school. I know that I am atrociously late in writing this post, but I’m [...]

  posted in Conference Notes, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Memetic Inkblots

  June 3, 2008

  I explore the memetic inkblot, which refers to units of cultural information that have effectively no singular semiotic value and therefore serve as a psychosocial indicator. In other words, they are so vague and open to interpretation that you can learn a lot about someone by asking someone to give a simple definition of them.

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• Why aren’t the GPL and the GFDL freely licensed?

  May 23, 2008

  Works licensed under the GPL and the GFDL can be modified and then freely redistributed, as long as the modified versions are released under the same conditions. Why are we not allowed to modify these licenses and redistribute them?

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture

  May 31, 2007

  An investigation into the community formed by small number of Wikipedia contributors who care enough to decide how, at some level, Wikipedia is run. The work discusses identity, communication, and organizational hierarchy in this subculture.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?

  November 23, 2005

  Corporate adoption of open source software should not be viewed as antithetical to capitalism; rather, it is an example of corporations co-opting Communism to become more capitalist.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger