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Free Culture Labs

January 20th, 2007 by nicholas laracuente

I, Nicholas LaRacuente, am a current Swarthmore freshman (class of 2010). My initial interest in the Free Culture movement came from the open source software that has allowed me to grow as a hacker and developer. I am proud to announce that I will be leading a new project on FreeCulture.org, Free Culture Labs.

Free Culture Labs will be a network for open source hackers interested in assisting development of open source, Free Culture-related software. Free Culture Labs will work to recruit interested programmers, primarily (but not exclusively) from college campuses. We will provide resources for entering members and suggest projects for experienced developers. These projects will include both those directly maintained by FreeCulture.org and some from external organizations that relate to our mission.

We are interested in suggestions as to what specific software we should use for the project, including bug trackers, repositories, blogs, wikis, forums, and version control. We are currently considering WordPress and bbPress for the blog/forums and expect to host projects externally. The current wiki page is at http://wiki.freeculture.org/Free_Culture_Labs.

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2 Responses to “Free Culture Labs”

  1. John S. James Says:
    February 4th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

    I’ve designed a system of online financial accounts that can REPRODUCE through any number of generations — as a way to let artists get paid effectively for their work without using DRM, and for many other purposes as well.

    A 700-word summary, and also full details, are at http://www.smart-accounts.org You or others at Free Culture might be interested. I’m in Philadelphia, and looking for people to work with on this project.

    John

  2. Marco Arthur Says:
    March 3rd, 2007 at 8:30 am

    Hi. I’m a undergraduate student of computer science in Brazil. I liked the idea to create such project.
    I have an idea about the wiki. Twiki (http://twiki.org) seems a nice tool to use, since it’s good design, easy-to-use,
    has lots of plugins, highly customizable, and is GPL.

    I hope this suggestion could be useful for you. I want to know more and participate in this project.
    ;-) Marco Arthur
    fortune:
    ” There is something in the pang of change
    More than the heart can bear,
    Unhappiness remembering happiness.
    — Euripides “

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