Month: November 2011
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The Needs of Others
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Read More →: The Needs of OthersI gave a talk at the open source hardware user group recently titled “The Needs of Others”. It was half outlining what is known about the effective delivery of technology aimed alleviating technology and half talking about how faithful reproduction of physical objects at any reasonable scale is dependent good documentation and then exploring the challenges all…
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Terminology and renaming
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Read More →: Terminology and renamingI will write up about the talk at OSHUG later on but this has been the first rest period for a while so I thought it would be best to update the project status first. Short form – back to the foundation and in need of a rename The last month has been rather quiet…
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My time
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Read More →: My timeIt’s been a good long while since my last post. In truth I am not a blogger by habit. I do things, or I think about doing things. Writing about the things I am doing or thinking about is a forced action for me. Ironic in light of the documentation bent I am pursuing. I…
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We Are The Elite
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Read More →: We Are The EliteTo the “99%”, Yesterday I tweeted this “Top 1% of earners globally is anyone with an annual income of £22000 #perspective#occupyearth #occupyeverywhere http://t.co/YXh6sVMs” I received this response “@jumplogic Good perspective. We are the 99.99%. Stop international profiteering and private pillage of public good worldwide. #OccupyEarth” I agree with the second half, however I have a…
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Scalable Documentation
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Read More →: Scalable Documentationhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Zs8Ws/blog.paulpolak.com/?p=1111 by Paul Polak is perhaps one of the most important blog posts I have read related to affordable poverty alleviating technologies. Read it before continuing this post Read it? I hope to write a bit more about the delivery chain but for today I will focus on scalability. This paragraph covers the important aspects.…