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Friday 10 August 2007
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6 License for the pages on this site
All pages on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Both the preceding text link and the following symbol link will direct you to the page on the Creative Commons website that describes the Attribution 3.0 License:
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Wednesday 8 August 2007
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3 Open Source Hardware
Definition of Open Source Hardware
Wikipedia defines "open source hardware" as follows:
Open source hardware refers to computer and electronic hardware that is designed in the same fashion as free and open-source software.
In an article on the Open Collector website Graham Seaman suggests (...)
Thursday 26 July 2007
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3 Planned Table of Contents for this Site
As explained in the article The Conviviality Project, this website is a work-in-progress. The goals is to develop a small Encyclopedia of Convivial Tools (see the article Is this website an Encyclopedia?.
The list of contents automatically generated by Site Map is thus incomplete. The (...)
Tuesday 24 July 2007
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6 Others
Other characteristics of Technical Conviviality include:
6 Ergonomics
7 Simplicity
8 Robustness
9 Open access
10 Modularity
11 Recyclability
12 Environmental friendliness
13 Social friendliness
14 Promotion of autonomy
15 Full service
16 Eutrapelia
This article is a (...)
Monday 23 July 2007
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6 Lee Felsenstein and the Convivial Computer
Lee Felsenstein, one of early developers of the personal computer, had read Ivan Illich and was influenced by his vision of convivial tools. As stated in the Wikipedia article on Felsenstein:
Lee was influenced in his philosophy by the works of Ivan Illich, particularly "Tools for (...)