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<body class='hmmessage'>Rafi,<BR>
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I thank you for your suggestions. You have pointed me in the right direction twice and I will certainly check out this book. I appreciate your generosity in sharing your knowledge of resources out there for those of us starting this OS journey. Keep up the spirit! <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:08:40 -0600<BR>> From: raffi@BK.RU<BR>> Subject: Open Collaboration<BR>> To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR>> <BR>> Dear all,<BR>> <BR>> Alpha Lo, who was at the WOSonOS, has just shared with the world a new book:<BR>> <BR>> "Open Collaboration."<BR>> <BR>> He writes:<BR>> "There's a new (and ancient) paradigm that's altering the world we know.<BR>> The paradigm is that of open collaboration.<BR>> <BR>> Do we have a map of this paradigm?<BR>> <BR>> A new book "Open Collaboration" collects many of the amazing examples<BR>> out there, gathers the concepts that are growing to explain this new<BR>> revolution - from open source software to burningman to rainbow<BR>> gatherings to wikipedia to tool libraries to cohousing to farmers<BR>> markets to peer-to-peer networks to open space technology to bottom-up<BR>> processes to skillshares to drum circles to unconferences to creative<BR>> commons to collaborative blogging to ecovillages to the global<BR>> consciousness project to workers cooperatives to remix culture - and<BR>> brings them together into an encyclopedia. It itself taps into the<BR>> openly collaboratively written Wikipedia for many of its articles.<BR>> <BR>> available at lulu.com<BR>> www.lulu.com/content/3664657<BR>> (theres a free download of the book at the website)<BR>> <BR>> "Open collaboration" : an encyclopedia on the power of participation<BR>> and self-organization. Compiled and edited by Alpha Lo.<BR>> <BR>> This is a book you can browse for inspiration, search for ideas of how<BR>> to make your project more openly collaborative. This is a book you can<BR>> use to make sense of the multidimensional aspects of this new open<BR>> collaboration paradigm that may be birthing a whole new era of human<BR>> history that is globally cooperative.<BR>> <BR>> "This book has the potential to generate a culture" - Patrick Troup<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> warmly,<BR>> raffi<BR>> <BR>> *<BR>> *<BR>> ==========================================================<BR>> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR>> ------------------------------<BR>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<BR>> view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu:<BR>> http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html<BR>> <BR>> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:<BR>> http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist<BR><BR><br /><hr />Get ideas on sharing photos from people like you. Find new ways to share. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/explore/photogallery/posts?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Photo_Gallery_082008' target='_new'>Get Ideas Here!</a></body>
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