The Internet enables collaboration and sharing on an obviously unprecedented level. This talk discusses two different International movements that continue to emerge that effect design and society. In particular, Open Source Software development is a global movement of software developers extending themselves on-line to collaborate and develop free software. Similarly, the newer Free Culture and Open Content movements are connecting media producers - designers, artists, and anyone producing media around the globe with legal and accessible media - movies, images and sound.
Through a discussion of Inkscape, an Open Source Drawing program, Open Clip Art Library, a public domain clip art repository, and Creative Commons' ccHost, the media hosting engine which powers ccmixter.org, an overview of some possible strong routes for International collaboration and media sharing are provided.
Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org) is an open source developer, artist, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 12+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. His involvements with mixing culture and software development have been shown internationally at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (2006), Sun Yat-Sen University, Desktop Developers Conference (2005), SFMoMA (2004), University of Tokyo, Korea's KAIST, UCLA Hammer Museum, UC-Berkeley's 040404 Conference, USC Aim Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He is a core Open Source developer advocate and developer on Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org), a scalable vector graphics editor and on the Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org), and is writing/producing a book, "CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems." Currently, he is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) in the Design+Technology department and is an Open Source developer for the Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org). He completed his MFA at University of California, San Diego (2004) with Lev Manovich (www.manovich.net) and BFA from Kansas City Art Institute with Patrick Clancy (www.patrickclancy.org).