Is the future of the web free and open? Borys Musielak | OSmedia.pl Democamp East West, May 2009

Free vs free Free lunch Free software Free content(?)

Free software revolution GNU Linux OpenOffice.org Firefox Apache and all the server software Will the web be next?

Free software for the web Wikis: MediaWiki. TWiki, TikiWiki Blogging: Wordpress, Textpattern CMS: Drupal, Joomla, Plone Frameworks: Rails, Django, Zend...

Free software for the web - specialization Digg clones: Pligg, WP-Digg Blogging platforms: Wordpress MU Microblogging: Laconi.ca (OpenMicroBlogging) Social networking: Pinax project But... those are tools, not services.

What is an open service? An open software service is one: Whose data is open as defined by the open knowledge definition with the exception that where the data is personal in nature the data need only be made available to the user Whose source code is: Free/Open Source Software (that is available under a license in the OSI or FSF approved list). Made available to the users of the service. http://opendefinition.org/ossd/

Open API vs Open Source Works best together

Why go open? Open source code: developers community: new features for free good for PR Open content: users control and own their data users more willing to participate as they know they are respected

Open software services Reddit.com – social news ma.gnol.ia – social bookmarking Wikidot.com – wiki farm Identi.ca & Ur1.ca Libre.fm – free Last.fm clone Filmaster.com (this is a good one :P)

Open services in Poland Many blogs publishing content under Creative Commons (e.g. Playr.pl) Wikimedia Polska services: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, WikiNews, many more OSmedia: OSnews.pl, jakilinux.org, WolnaKultura.info, DO.org.pl, Filmaster.pl, more coming soon

Some ideas to discuss... When is it not worth going open / drawbacks of openness (are there any, really?) How to best benefit from openness (releasing the code just isn't good enough)? Why do so few services go open? Open Cloud Manifesto And whatever else you may think of

Thank you