It was announced on Friday that King Babar a.k.a. Nathan Redpath won the remixing competition with his track, ‘Gassed Up‘. His remix used samples from Zskilz and Askari – all from the ccmixterSA website. The site is really looking great after a bit of a slow start. Almost 20 artists are busy remixing as we speak. Check them out – we may just have a couple of new stars among them!
Call for applications: Africa Source II
Africa Source II will be an eight day hands-on workshop aimed at building the technical skills of those working with and within NGOs on the continent. It will take place in one of the most beautiful parts of the Kalangala Island on Victoria Lake during the beginning of January 2006.
Africa Source II will focus on how technology, in particular Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) can be integrated into the project work of NGOs. Over a hundred NGO Support Professionals and NGO Staff working at the local level across the region are expected at this meeting. Together with a handful of field leaders from Africa, Europe, North America and Asia, they will explore how technology can best serve the non-profit sector in Africa both in terms of access and content. See www.tacticaltech.org/africasource2 for more information on how to apply.
Open Business Model launches at the Tate Britain, London
OpenBusiness.cc was launched at the Tate Gallery, Britain on 8 October 2005. It is a platform for sharing innovative Open Business ideas – entrepreneurial ideas which are built around openness, free services and free access.
Open business is designed to help the little guys along on their journey, to spread their ideas while creating revenues in the process.
In order to sustain a rich, innovative global community, access to information and ideas is paramount. The objective of the open business project is, therefore, to analyze and explain models by which people can share their knowledge and creativity with others, guided by the aligned incentives of profit, individual success, and societal advancement.
OpenBusiness is a collaboration between Christian Ahlert and his team at the Michael Young Foundation in the UK, Heather Ford and Kerryn McKay from the Link Centre in South Africa and Ronaldo Lemos from FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro.
All partners are involved with Creative Commons in their respective countries, namely the United Kingdom, Brazil and South Africa.
The project is supported by the Open Society Institute, Arts Council England and IDRC in Canada.
FOSS Road, Tajikistan
I’m in Tajikistan this week helping to facilitate the FOSS Road: Central Asian camp on free software migration at the request of our friends at Tacticaltech. Read my blog for daily updates.
Open Business Model project launches at the Tate
Kerryn McKay and I are helping to launch the Open Business Model Project at the Tate Britain on Saturday (8 Oct). The Tate is hosting a conference called ‘Open Congress: Creativity and the Public Domain‘ with speakers such as Cory Doctorow speaking about how open source-inspired methods can transform arts and its institutions. The Commons-sense programme at the LINK Centre is running the African regional component of this international collaboration. Read more here.
Weblog- Behance Network Creative Roundup
- Preparing Your Educational Resources for DiscoverEd
- Canonical Wants to Double Your Donation!
- Polish Ministry Creates Incentives for Sharing
- Printing Thom Yorke’s Head
- Jamendo PRO Partners with International Hotel & Restaurant Association
- Commoner Letter #3: Jay Yoon of CC Korea
- CC Taiwan Launches Version 3.0
- ccMixter→ArtisTech Media
- Free Software Award nominations due October 31
