Entries tagged as “hacker”

The State of Open Data 2011

What is the state of the open data movement? Yesterday, during my opening keynote at the Open Government Data Camp (held this year in Warsaw, Poland) I sought to follow up on my talk from last year’s conference. Here’s my take of where we are today (I’ll post/link to a video of the talk as [...]

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Hackers are Social Activists mashup – Eric Raymond vs. Bill Moyes

If the Open Web is a social movement then are Hackers Social Activists? From the reaction of a number of people to that post the answer at first seems unclear. Some of those who responded shared their discomfort with the idea of being labeled a social activist. Notions of people chaining themselves to something, yelling [...]

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