Tag Archives: Open Source

Ending Poverty with Open Hardware

By ivanka.majic | Published: 5 February, 2010
The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon. Cut six more sheets in half diagonally, and screw them together into a shallow cone. Lift the roof on to the wall with a large group [...]
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Eating Linux every day

By ivanka.majic | Published: 25 September, 2009
Designer? Thought about Linux but just not sure? Then this is for you: http://thoughtlounge.squarespace.com/linux-eats/
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Open Source Matters

By ivanka.majic | Published: 11 September, 2009
This week’s edition of the IET magazine is The Open Source Issue. The arrival of my weekly magazine seemed to coincide beautifully with @leisa tweeting the question: “Why does open source matter?” In the magazine we have: open source biotechnology, open source cars, open source phones and the story of how AQA (a UK examination board) [...]
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Seriously though, why would anyone do this?

By ivanka.majic | Published: 8 September, 2009
I tweeted (twittered? Will I never know?) a link to this article on how to run Ubuntu on a mac. Within moments I got a direct tweet back from a former colleague who is a UX/Design person: Seriously with OSx as good as it is… Why would anyone do this? I don’t get it. Why run Ubuntu [...]
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Do design? Do open source?

By ivanka.majic | Published: 25 June, 2009
One evening a few months ago, Leisa and I had dinner and were chatting – as one does – about work and the challenges of design in the open source community. One outcome of the evening was Leisa going home and registering http://www.designintheopen.org/. It sat for a while. Then, last week, as we were chatting about my last [...]
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