I just saw this news via twitter, thanks to Joy Tang of OVF

I think this would suit excellent for an internet center in Nigeria, or in other parts of Africa.

Solar Net One

Its about a solar powered system which runs debian linux on a server with up to 50 thin clients. There is already one such system deployed in Nigeria. Sounds excellent., the only prohibitive thing is the price 15000$ US Although this is not much if you know that you have an autonomous internet center which will work for 20 years. Sasha

Please check out this movie  Hunt for Gollum its almost incredible how god movie could a bunch of friends make. Now imagine what could they do with just a little bit of resources.

I don’t know which license they use, hopefully some free version, but they have made their film with only 3000 pounds. It is a completely not for profit endeavor . I feel this guys are making history. They made a movie and they distribute it freely for personal use. Hollywood beware, here comes the P2P revolution!

Incredible!

Patrick Geddes – “By creating we think, by living we learn”

Not all is well in the land of open source. The first open source cellphone is no longer produced.

Read more here. What does this say? People are buying  iphones like crazy, no matter how bad Apple policies are (locking the device, control of the software) and how closed and tightly controlled their device and their software is. It seems that the general public does not care too much, as long as they have the most fancy device.

On the other side not all is dark, lone open source riders have ported Debian to G1 Android smartphone.

http://www.platform21.nl/index.php?lang=en Repair manifesto. Stop recycling start repairing!

Open source gasification:  http://www.allpowerlabs.org/

http://gekgasifier.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

A distributed network for global and local development of generic infrastructures incrementally developed by communities.

http://www.bricolabs.net

One of their projects:

http://www.oswash.org/ Open source washing  machine: