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Participatory culture creates a sense of belonging
In 2005, I started a new job working as the public geek at the Takoma Park Maryland Library, a public library in the Washington D.C. area. My main duty is helping youth and adults use the 28 public...
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Beth Noveck predicts two phases of open government in TED Talk
I recently watched a new TED Talk by the first and former White House Deputy CTO Beth Noveck, delivered in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is really the initial instigator of the modern open government...
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Discovering hidden influencers that make and break project success
A provocative research finding is that 75-90% of all large organizational projects fail to meet their original objectives, (Patterson et al. (2006)). The same research suggests human practices and...
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Gather crowdsourced public input with Shareabouts app
As stressful as elections can be, they always bring a welcome surge of patriotism. United States citizens have a lot of opinions about their government, and election time is a good reminder that...
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Celebrating 10 years of Creative Commons
How will you celebrate Creative Commons' 10 year anniversary?Release new work under a Creative Commons license26.3% (15 votes) Attend a user group meeting5.3% (3 votes)Remix existing work8.8% (5...
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Top 10 open government posts from 2012
It's been a great year for the open source movement in government. I feel like we've moved the needle on the transparency, collaboration, and participation fronts. More importantly, the open government...
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Could open source build a jetliner?
I know this might sound like an odd question. It first came up in a conversation I had with Gary Hamel, the eminent business thinker and one of the first people to recognize the importance of...
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Bring openness to your local government with Code Across America
Code Across America is scheduled for February 22-24. It will be a weekend of community building and moving the needle for more openness in local governments across the United States.read more
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The five elements of an open source city
Which of these characteristics is most important to start a local open government movement? Active and engaged citizens An open government champion Open government/open data policies An economic...
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On a mission to change the citizen experience
In this episode of the Dave and Gunnar Show, I interviewed opensource.com's lead project manager, Jason Hibbets. He recently self-published a book advocating for citizen involvement in local government...
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The rise of the citizen CIO
Are citizen CIOs a partner or a threat to local government? Partners ThreatAre citizen CIOs a threat to local governments or a blessing in disguise? With government IT departments producing more open...
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Open source to bridge the global digital divide
I vividly remember my first experience using the Internet in 2000. The amount of information I was hit with by typing my first search term, university, was far beyond my wildest imaginations. This...
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Participation value and sustainability through the lens of American Idol
Whether in the US or abroad, most everyone is familiar with American Idol. While not an open source project or community, American Idol is a good example of the power of participation, and how...
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Calling all open source gurus
On Opensource.com in 2011 we launched our points and badge system. Many of our readers log in daily, vote on and rate articles, add their comments, and participate in polls—all while earning points for...
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OpenHatch brings open source to campus
A little less than a year ago, I was asked to direct OpenHatch's Open Source Comes to Campus event series. This event is a workshop designed to introduce college students to open source, to teach them...
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How to analyze corporate contributions to open source projects
In proprietary software, the company contributes 100% of the code. If you think about a traditional proprietary software product, it has a development community of one: the software company itself. The...
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