From the yearly archives: 2011

Year 2011 – ends and beginnings

By On December 31, 2011 · 13 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, finland, Hackers, hackerspace, LDP, MeeGo, meego network finland, Qt, Ultimaker, Uncategorized

At first I was not going to write about what big and small events took place 2011 in my life, what I participated in and so on. Then I thought why not. It will offer me a chance to sob and joy So, here are some events, beginnings and ends that took place 2011.

MeeGo [...]

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Ultimaker 3D printer arrived to Tampere

By On December 30, 2011 · 16 Comments · In 3D, community, finland, Hackers, hackerspace, open source, Ultimaker

Today we got our hands on the long waited 3D printer, Ultimaker. Our local hackerspace (http://5w.fi) already has one 3D printer, but it is owned by one member. This new printer is co-owned by members of our local hackerspace. We did get some funding (500€) from investors (http://openinvest.fi). The funding was [...]

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Open Coral Info block – IRC community meetings

By On December 28, 2011 · 17 Comments · In community, dashboard, Ecosystem, network, Open Coral, open source, research

A lot of developers hang out at IRC channels. Actually a lot more takes place in IRC channels: people discuss how to solve problems they confront in development or in usage, they exchange information and ideas, and many other activities. IRC is one of the fundamental elements in communication of Open Source communities. Therefore we [...]

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Open Coral – Sync email & stream discussions

By On December 28, 2011 · 11 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, Hackers, network, Open Coral, open source, research

Open Coral development has started to get some form. The community – yet small, but growing – is forming teams based on different skills and interests. One of those teams is something that I will name as ‘Concept Designers’. I am/will be member of that team. Concept Designers define features based [...]

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Open Coral – community guidelines

By On December 8, 2011 · 14 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, Hackers, network, Open Coral, open source, Participate, research

Every Open Source community is unique. Therefore community values might differ from case to case. Of course some communities (especially Open Source driven) share common values, but still they have distinctive features. Here are some of the values that members of Open Coral project should share. This is not ‘the’ list or anything final. Furthermore [...]

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Open Coral UX/UI initial plan

By On December 3, 2011 · 15 Comments · In community, dashboard, Open Coral, open source, research

Five members (me, Kari aka ‘Kp’, Jouni, Oopee and Tere) of Open Coral project gathered in a live meeting 2.12.2011 at University of Tampere. It seems that this group of members will function as ad hoc “UX Team”. The same punch of developers and designers might form more coherent team in the future, but that [...]

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3D-CUPS Printer Job management needed

By On December 2, 2011 · 13 Comments · In 3D, common, Ecosystem, Hackers, open source, Uncategorized

Several new 3D printer vendors (RepRap, MakerBot Industries, Printrbot) have entered the markets during the last year or so. These printers are cheap (compared to previous) yet capable of creating adequate quality with relatively slow speed. The printers share same functionality and technics yet common unified printing service software is not available. It’s [...]

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Open Coral project & community starting

By On October 31, 2011 · 14 Comments · In community, dashboard, Ecosystem, network, Open Coral, open source, Participate, research

Today Open Coral project is 4 weeks old. A lot has been setup, discussions with several partners has been done and several people have expressed interest towards project.

Co-operation discussions with Tampere University of Technology, University of Tampere and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) are constantly ongoing. Diaspora kindly tweeted about us in their official [...]

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Unified Universal Open Source Dashboard

By On October 10, 2011 · 18 Comments · In community, dashboard, Ecosystem, Open Coral, open source

What if open source projects would have possibility to use unified dashboard instead of creating one for every project? What if anyone could see what’s the status and history of each package?

What if we would have single entry point to browse project (and packages included in it) details such as

bugs history and details, [...]

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Over 500 active hackerspaces

By On September 23, 2011 · 12 Comments · In community, Hackers, hackerspace, open source, Uncategorized

About 2 weeks ago I received an email from a person who had read my writings about hackerspaces and he was asking if I had any new statistics of what’s going on with them. Unfortunately I had to say: “No, but take a look at the results of new survey that took place this summer.” [...]

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