The document discusses openness and how it relates to networking and collaboration. It defines openness as atomic, transparent, rhizomatic, organic, and evolutionary. It also outlines the rules of BarCamp which aim to promote open participation, collaboration and sharing through presentations.

1. Breeding success
through openness
Chris Messina November 6, 2008
Edge of the Web Perth, Western Australia

2. @factoryjoe
#eotw

3. “Low hills closed in on either side as the
train eventually crawled on to high,
tabletop grasslands creased with snow.
Birds flew at window level. I could see
lakes of an unreal cobalt blue to the north.
The train pulled into a sprawling rail
yard: the Kazakh side of the Kazakhstan-
China border.
. . .

4. “Workers unhitched the cars, lifted them,
one by one, ten feet high with giant jacks,
and replaced the wide-gauge Russian
undercarriages with narrower ones for
the Chinese tracks. Russian gauges, still
in use throughout the former Soviet
Union, are wider than the world standard.
The idea was to the prevent invaders from
entering Russia by train. The changeover
took hours.”
— Robert D. Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth

5. ☭

6. “Open is the new Black.”
— Marc Canter
Taking advantage of open for proprietary purposes

7. What is “open”?

9. On-demand
Personal
Engaging
Networked

10. What is “openness”?

11. Chris’ Characteristics of
“Openness”
• atomic
• transparent
• rhizomatic
• organic
• evolutionary

13. The Rules of BarCamp
• You do talk about BarCamp.
• You do blog about BarCamp.
• If you want to present, you must write your topic and
name in a presentation slot.
• Only three word intros.
• As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
• No pre-scheduled presentations, no tourists.
• Presentations will go on as long as they have to or until
they run into another presentation slot.
• If this is your first time at BarCamp, you have to
present.*

15. Photo by the Ryan King. Shared under Creative Commons.

16. Source: University of Winnipeg

17. CM

19. Source: Coworking on Coding in Paradise

20. Photo by Chris Messina

23. coworking.pbwiki.com

25. paved cowpaths of microformats
Source: Paul Downey. Shared under Creative Commons.

26. <a href=“http://factoryjoe.com”
>My site</a>
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>Brynn</a>

27. <a href=“http://factoryjoe.com”
rel=“me”>My site</a>
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rel=“friend met sweetheart”>Brynn</a>

28. • hCard
• hCalendar
• hAtom
• XFN
• hResume
• hReview
• hRecipe
• XOXO
• rel-license
• rel-tag

30. Photo by Tantek Çelik. Shared under Creative Commons.

33. #eotw

34. Twitter circa July 2006.

39. DiSo Project
& the Open Stack

40. Ingredients
•activities
•contacts, relationships & identity
•services
•permissions & privacy
•groups/groupings
•messaging & notifications

41. Technologies
...++

42. The Open Stack
Credit: Joseph Smarr

43. Google vs Facebook

44. Openwashing!

45. ...Characteristics
• atomic
• transparent
• rhizomatic
• organic
• evolutionary

46. WWW Foundation

47. Open Web Foundation

48. One Final Thought

49. Photo by the Charlie Brewer. Shared under Creative Commons.

50. Source: NASA and STScI

51. Source: NASA and STScI

52. Source: NASA and STScI

54. Published by the Boston Globe. Courtesy SOHO/EIT consortium.

55. Source: moby.com

56. Photo by the Erik Natzke. Used without permission.

59. fin.
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