Final Presentation

Wow...again, time eludes me. Thanksgiving was pretty crazy and hectic, and I am finally getting back to normal...now I just have to catch up on my blog posts and finish this class strong!

Here is our presentation!

We are presenting on remixes, specifically the Cathedral and the Bazaar.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar has a very interesting concept and back story. Eric Raymond initially thought that software products needed to be built like a Cathedral. It should be extremely grand and secretive. Only the architects have access to HOW it was built and HOW to maintain it. However, the Open source movement is overcoming the software industry. Instead of a grand cathedral, development is more like a bazaar, thousands of people, yelling, trading, and sharing information. This bazaar may seem disorganized and unsuccessful, but it is completely opposite. Eric present 19 points on how the bazaar is better than the cathedral.

Eric initially wrote this article as a petition to a company called Netscape, pleading for them to release their cathedral, Mozilla, to the public and turn it into a bazaar. Netscape eventually did, and they have been EXTREMELY successful ever since. Mozilla has turned into one of the top web browsers with a development department as big as the world. Over 2 billion Add-ons have been downloaded for Firefox!

Our presentation will be able to positives of Open Source, as Eric explains. We will show examples of how we remixed his article, because of the Open Publication license which he has. Finally, we will show the POSSIBILITIES that exist due to Openness.

Taken from Daniel Zapalla

Go team!