Introduce yourself to the OS//OS community!

I've been a professional programmer for 15 or so years and have been deeply inspired by the culture surrounding open source software. I think the balance between private and public is a bit off in our economies. I'm a big fan of collectives and holding assets in the commons and would like to see more collective stewardship.

I do a lot of work with self managed companies and learned a lot by launching Enspiral 5 years ago. I currently spend most of my time with Enspiral Dev Academy and am particularly interested in applying learnings from the open source tech community to open source education materials.

It makes me sad that so much energy goes into making platforms because they can make money when it was protocols which made the internet possible and I dream of a day when we can build stronger financial models for people contributing to the commons. Protocols over Platforms is a guiding star for my work these days.

I am publishing a book called 'The Creation Movement' which encourages everyday ordinary people to come together in unity and build solutions that their communities and the greater world could do with. Rather than relying on the government or wasting time getting upset at big business, we can explore ways to create solutions that the world needs then do it together.

I'm also working to create a series of cartoon characters called PAN, BAM & FRIENDS who are baby animal superhero role models. Each of them have gifts and a meaningful role to play in adventures around the world. PAN & BAM hope to find ways to move around in games, educational apps & web tools, and tell inspirational stories through media..

Let's unite on something and create!

Hey Stephen. I'd like to see these characters PAM & BAM. We might be able to help bring them to life in Gamefroot :)

Passion alone !== OS
I want to see talks and workshops by people that have already done and delivered OS products and services :)

Catalyst do cool things. Helen Baxter is AMAZING and written a book about Maker Movement. She would be a draw card for me.

WGTN has OS rock stars that I want to meet and hear them :)

Hi Dan,
Stoked to hear from you!
CHARACTERS: www.panbamworld.com/2253-5144/
We did make a simple game -
GAME: www.panbam.com/fun/
Thanks for introducing yourself :)

@panbam - some of that stuff looks pretty cool :)

Would you consider in providing the PAN & BAM graphics into Gamefroot so that people can use them in their own games?

Out of curiosity what bits of your business are open source. I was surprised to see that all your work is copyright on that page as opposed to creative commons or something comparable - only mention it because we're in the OS/OS chat :)

Hi all, great to see this collection of advocates for openness coming together! I started writing up a post to introduce myself and decided instead to turn it into a blog post: http://lane.net.nz/blog/dave/my-open-history

Look forward to meeting all of you in April!

Hi Dan,

I like your blog and am stoked to hear from you.

Am interested in the OS space.
I have a massive interest in the future of education, and have started a few projects around the open sharing of educational resources in schools ( http://nz.unitlink.org/ ) [UnitLink started 2009] & developing career planning software using big data ( http://www.surfaceproductions.com/career/ ) [Career Programme started 2011].

Yes, I'm happy to provide the panbamWORLD characters for games.
The reason that all of the characters are Trade Marked and Copyrighted is because the cute little animals have a licensing revenue model - so we are making them available to be used on particular products. We also want to know where they are going (for example: We don't want PAN & BAM to end up in a cruel hunting game, etc).

What we can do is open the characters up for use in the development of games without any costs involved -
- What do I do to submit them to Gamefroot?

• What format do you want the images in (1650px by 468px .PNG with transparent background)?

• Where else should we put them?

I would like to hear from the people that wish to use PAN, BAM & FRIENDS and can get new graphics created too. We have a large library of cartoon backdrops, including mountains, objects, etc.

Steve

I'm helping to bring this whole event together - really loving meeting all the people from the OPEN community!

I am an active member of Enspiral and one of the co-founders of Chalkle.

As a non tech - I am loving discovering all the systems and processes that the Open tech community use.

Looking forward to meeting you all in April!

So great to meet all you VR! One of the ideas/aspirations that I had for the conference is that together we could co-create an Open Society Manifesto, as a legacy from our time spent together thinking and hacking our way around the challenges and opportunities.

It would be in the spirit of creating a new ‘operating system’ for the 21st Century - "beyond Capitalism" if you like, providing a more participatory, generative and egalitarian platform for humanity.

Ideally, its something that all our participants have a chance to touch. My request is that one of you can put up your hand to initiate the process (on Loomio) and throughout the conference we will engage people to actively to contribute to various sections of it so that we can launch at the final session on Friday night.

In the spirit of open source, it will then be gifted, tweeted, blogged to the world - and people will be invited to further edit/contribute to it.

Has anyone got a fire in their belly for kicking this off? The organising team don't have capacity unfortunately - besides, this is about our community making something together...

Here are my initial thoughts:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SKsFuzQAaSxVvlmZlDzVpY2hil7qU7YgWWwWTVw3ipg/edit