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Open SoSi: Show me the money

Open sourcing our project estimates at SXSW

14 March, 2010
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by Alexandra Samuel

Go directly to the latest Open SoSi release, How to create budget estimates for proposals and project management. >>

I'm hosting a conversation today at SXSW, Breaking it Open: Open Source Consulting Models. So this seemed like the right moment to return to the job of open sourcing our consulting materials.

As it turns out, the biggest challenge of open sourcing is actually organizing our materials in a form that is useful to share. Any programmer can tell you that documentation is often the most onerous part of sharing code, and we've found the same thing is true in our own open sourcing process. We could just dump a pile of documents onto the Internet, but we want to release them in a form other people can make sense of and apply to their own work. That takes time.

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Barfly

(one bug at a pickup bar to another) Nothing personal. I've just always found that many eyes make all bugs shallow.

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Open SoSi

Social Signal open sources its social media consulting practice

15 October, 2009
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by Alex and Rob

It's Social Signal's fourth anniversary. But rather than breaking open the champagne, we're breaking open the vault that contains everything we've learned over the past four years.

We're taking the intellectual property we've generated and gleaned from Social Signal's four years of consulting, strategy and development and making it available for free online, under a Creative Commons license.

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"You got Drupal in my Second Life!" "You got Second Life in my Drupal!"

Bridging the virtual world and your information in Drupal

26 November, 2007
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by Rob Cottingham

Second Life logo behind crumbling wall

From an illustration ©iStockphoto.com/Simfo

We're pleased to announce a brand new Drupal module...

...but first, the reason we created it:

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Nudging participation along at ChangeEverything.ca

22 November, 2007
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by Rob Cottingham

User-based sites like Vancity's ChangeEverything.ca thrive on participation. And there's a lively community creating changes and blogging about them... which is a tribute to the community, to the site's compelling concept and to the work of community animator Kate Dugas.

Now Vancity wants to take participation to the next level.

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Google, MyYahoo! and Netvibes have a competitor: you

Drupal module allows you to build your own homepage

20 October, 2006
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by Rob Cottingham

For a while now, folks like Google, MyYahoo! and Netvibes have been vying to be your ho

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BarCamp Vancouver

26 August, 2006
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by Rob Cottingham

BarCamp Vancouver last weekend was inspiring and inspired.

I caught John Ounpuu's introduction to Sutori, a site that gives consumers a place to share stories of customer satisfaction and, probably more often, dissatisfaction. James Sherrett previewed the intriguing AdHack, which will allow people to upload and publish their own ads for products they love... and reap the benefits if the companies behind the products like what they see.

Kate Milberry walked us through the history of tech activism, the wonderful Dethe Elza explained how you can wield Python to warp OS X to your will, Alex explained how you can use tagging to do the same thing to the entire world, and I offered seven tips for better tech presentations. For us the day ended early, but I gather from the blog posts I've read out that there was plenty more where that came from.

With so many conferences geared to monetizing this and finding venture capital for that, it was great to see something organized out of the sheer love of what emerging digital technology can do for people. Congrats to everyone who made this happen.

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