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Digital Tipping Point: Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist studying the Free Open Source Software movement 03
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- 2004
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- DTP Crew
This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments!
This series of interview segments features anthropologist Gabriella Coleman. You might think that anthropologist are only useful for studying bones of old, forgotten cultures, but you would be wrong. As this series of 10 interview segments shows, we can learn a lot about modern cultures and subcultures from anthropologists.
Gabriella is not a computer scientist, but she does a great job of gaining enough computer science knowledge to understand what members of the Free Open Source Software movement are saying to each other. Her interviews are fascinating, because she spends much of her time thinking and talking about how people in the Free Open Source Software movement have created norms and established trust. These are really important issues, for several reasons. First, Free Open Source Software establishes the basic infrastructure for hundreds of billions of dollars in commerce every year. The Internet basically runs on Free Open Source Software, as does Google, Facebook, and most other such businesses. The US National Security Agency relies on GNU-Linux to run its computers, as does the US military. Huge civil bodies such as the City of Munich and the Region of Extremadura, Spain, rely on it. Second, Free Open Source Software is very international, as Gabriella points out, so what we learn from Free Open Source Software about collaboration can help humanity manage our complex international relations more smoothly in other areas as well.
Segments 01 and 02 of Gabriella's interview didn't turn out well due to poor lighting and background noise, and so we covered the topics from those two segments again here in segments 03 and 04.
In segment 03 (Tape 106~003), Gabriella explains that she is an anthropologist from the University of Chicago, who traveled to Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend both the Debian developers conference and the immediately subsequent FISL conference that took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It was her 5th or 6th conference. She feels that these conferences are important for the Free Software Movement, because it allows users, developers, and enthusiasts to come together to reinvigorate their traditions.
In segment 04 (Tape 106~004), she says that members of the Free Open Source Software movement like coming to conferences because they can speak personally with some of the leaders of the movement, such as Jon Maddog Hall, whom the DTP crew interviewed about the same time as Gabriella's interview. She has been conducting her research for 4 or 5 years at these conferences. People come to these conferences to learn technical skills, but also to establish personal ties with other members of the community. These in-person meetings are still very important despite the fact that the members of the Free Open Source Software movement spent a lot of time with each other on-line. She says that the Free Open Source Software movement is very international. People exchange important knowledge about their home cultures, in addition to creating the norms of the Free Open Source Software culture.
Later in segment 04, she says that FOSS has extended the ideas of the hacker culture as described in Steven Levy's book, "Hackers", which was a study of the MIT hacker culture out of which Richard Stallman grew. The hackers expressed their culture through sharing code. They saw computers as a way to create beauty and society. Gabriella continues on with this topic in segment 05.
This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page.
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg (segment 01)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg (segment 02)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_003.ogg (segment 03)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_004.ogg (segment 04)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg (segment 05)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg (segment 06)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_007.ogg (segment 07)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_008.ogg (segment 08)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_001.ogg (segment 09)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_002.ogg (segment 10)
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.
The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com.
Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_106
and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 003, Gabriella Coleman
You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thanks for viewing our video!
This series of interview segments features anthropologist Gabriella Coleman. You might think that anthropologist are only useful for studying bones of old, forgotten cultures, but you would be wrong. As this series of 10 interview segments shows, we can learn a lot about modern cultures and subcultures from anthropologists.
Gabriella is not a computer scientist, but she does a great job of gaining enough computer science knowledge to understand what members of the Free Open Source Software movement are saying to each other. Her interviews are fascinating, because she spends much of her time thinking and talking about how people in the Free Open Source Software movement have created norms and established trust. These are really important issues, for several reasons. First, Free Open Source Software establishes the basic infrastructure for hundreds of billions of dollars in commerce every year. The Internet basically runs on Free Open Source Software, as does Google, Facebook, and most other such businesses. The US National Security Agency relies on GNU-Linux to run its computers, as does the US military. Huge civil bodies such as the City of Munich and the Region of Extremadura, Spain, rely on it. Second, Free Open Source Software is very international, as Gabriella points out, so what we learn from Free Open Source Software about collaboration can help humanity manage our complex international relations more smoothly in other areas as well.
Segments 01 and 02 of Gabriella's interview didn't turn out well due to poor lighting and background noise, and so we covered the topics from those two segments again here in segments 03 and 04.
In segment 03 (Tape 106~003), Gabriella explains that she is an anthropologist from the University of Chicago, who traveled to Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend both the Debian developers conference and the immediately subsequent FISL conference that took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It was her 5th or 6th conference. She feels that these conferences are important for the Free Software Movement, because it allows users, developers, and enthusiasts to come together to reinvigorate their traditions.
In segment 04 (Tape 106~004), she says that members of the Free Open Source Software movement like coming to conferences because they can speak personally with some of the leaders of the movement, such as Jon Maddog Hall, whom the DTP crew interviewed about the same time as Gabriella's interview. She has been conducting her research for 4 or 5 years at these conferences. People come to these conferences to learn technical skills, but also to establish personal ties with other members of the community. These in-person meetings are still very important despite the fact that the members of the Free Open Source Software movement spent a lot of time with each other on-line. She says that the Free Open Source Software movement is very international. People exchange important knowledge about their home cultures, in addition to creating the norms of the Free Open Source Software culture.
Later in segment 04, she says that FOSS has extended the ideas of the hacker culture as described in Steven Levy's book, "Hackers", which was a study of the MIT hacker culture out of which Richard Stallman grew. The hackers expressed their culture through sharing code. They saw computers as a way to create beauty and society. Gabriella continues on with this topic in segment 05.
This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page.
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg (segment 01)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg (segment 02)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_003.ogg (segment 03)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_004.ogg (segment 04)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg (segment 05)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg (segment 06)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_007.ogg (segment 07)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_008.ogg (segment 08)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_001.ogg (segment 09)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_002.ogg (segment 10)
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.
The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com.
Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_106
and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 003, Gabriella Coleman
You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thanks for viewing our video!
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Please give attribution for this snip to DigitalTippingPoint.com
For credits for this segment and all segments for the DTP main film, please go to this website:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/?q=node/12
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- Christian Einfeldt, einfeldt at g mail dot com
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- 2008-10-02 04:24:29
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- e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_003.ogg
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- 2004
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