Day 1 of Open Everything at Hollyhock has passed and I’m now up far too late blogging about it. Numerous insights, but possibly the most interesting occured during the spectrogram exericse where we asked participants to physically locate themselves along an axis (in our case a piece of tape along the floor) in response to [...]
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The Evolution of Open – notes from Open Everything
Open Everything
This first stage of open source (which is drawing to and end) was proofing out the model. The second stage is about a duopoly…A battle of ideas, so to speak of open versus closed… Where industry is going to be dominated by two platforms that really characterize these two concepts. These two platforms are likely [...]
Open Everything
It’s official. A small cabale of us are running a conference entitled Open Everything about what is the value and the values of being “open” and how is it changing the way we live and work – for good and bad. The main event will be a 3-day shindig up at Hollyhock on Cortes Island [...]
Critical Negotiations in social change movements
Recently I had the good fortune of sharing a tea with Andrea Reimer of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. Our conversation focused on critical negotiations in social change movements – and more specifically, environmental movements. Andrea pointed me to The Movement Action Plan, an article by social activist Bill Moyer. The article outlines both the [...]


