LibrePlanet2020 Conference LibrePlanet2020 is a leading conference on ethical software; it has been virtualized due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is totally free! You can watch here: https://libreplanet.org/2020/live/. Presentation Slides Public Invention is going to be speaking at 4:20 on Sunday (EST). We will be presenting these slides: Slides
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You Don’t Have to be an Engineer to be a Public Inventor Engineering skills are useful in many invention projects, but many of the people already working on Public Invention teams do not have an engineering background. Part of the rationale for Public Invention is that technical developments in the last couple of decades (including
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“80% of projects are trivial. 20% are impossible. We must work in the thin boundary between these two classes.” — Edsger Dijkstra (quoted from memory) Public Invention fosters project-based invention teams that work “In the public, for the public.” Experience has shown this is a great way to learn, although learning is a secondary benefit
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Science is about Truth. Engineering is about Compromise At Public Invention, we do both, but perhaps more engineering than science. Our goal is to have a large positive impact on many people; but time and money are always in short supply. How, then, to compromise on which projects to prioritize? In order to be able
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The Maker Movement Many of us hear the song of the maker. As Dorothy Sayers has pointed out in the “Mind of the Maker”, making is a participation in, or at least a simulation of, the divine. It has always been so, but it has never been easier. Today, we have maker spaces, Make magazine,
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Mind, Body, Spirit. Strength, Flexibility, Endurance. Faith, Hope, Love. We like to think in threes. Sometimes we want our Mind, our Body, and our Spirit to be in balance; sometimes we just want to assert how something stands. As it happens, I had a bike wreck two weeks ago; right now, my Body is weaker
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Leonardo da Vinci said, “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” But he was wrong — the greatest pleasure is successful collaboration to help others. We can perhaps forgive Leonardo this slip, as no doubt it was hard for him to find co-workers who could keep up with him; I have no such limitation.
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“Oyarsa”, by Robert L. Read An Oil Paint Wheel I probably should not have taken up oil painting; I have always admired art done with pen-and-ink, which produces very thin, precise lines. It is possible to make thin lines with oil paint, but it is difficult. One must either have a terribly steady hand with
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The Glussbot, a Tetrobot invented by Public Invention. Invent in the public, for the Public Public Invention is a non-profit whose mission is to “invent in the public, for the Public”, and our first 43 projects can be found here. Our goal is to create humanitarian projects that conform to our mission, and to coach these
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