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Wayne;
Can you check the site. The pdf is coming as a blank document.
Martin
>Eric,
>
>First, I think our incentive is that you can go to the
>museum/science center and see an exhibit you did. We may have
>contests and as I mention somewhere on the site, special hours. If
>we get nothing then that's ok too, I am just offering people the
>opportunity. I have been in discussion with Dave Gilbert and we both
>believe there are people who want to hack with stuff. Remember this
>open to anyone. I do think there are people out there who are
>interested in messing around with digital stuff.
>
>Second, the code from producers is not open source, the exhibit is
>open source. IN other words we are working to make "plug ins" or
>sections easily taken out and replaced with different parts. I
>think the difference here is we are trying to organize the number
>and have a large number.
>
>Third, as we develop the exhibits further I do thing what you can do
>and make will be a more defined challenge. But we launched this at
>this stage so participants might actually shape the original exhibit
>development and production as well.
>
>Wayne
>
>
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>Hey Wayne: Remember our experiment with doing this four years ago
>with Connections? It was pretty fruitful, yielded some good ideas. I
>think you participated some, maybe not. We had 20 or 30 folks from
>all around the world for a little while. We also thought the idea of
>open source exhibition development would be useful, but there are a
>few caveats:
>
>1) There is so much stuff out there for people to do that you need to
>create some sort of incentive. We offered ipods, as I recall, for
>the most substantive poster and the most frequent poster (they turned
>out to be the same person).
>2) Is the stuff you are creating really open source? Is Onomy going
>to create something under the "copyleft" license ( http://www.gnu.org/
>copyleft/copyleft.html )? I know that several of the most innovative
>pieces we commissioned for connections we licensed from the artist
>under traditional copyright rules. They certainly don't allow for the
>pieces to be given away and for the source code to be modified/added
>to, as is required by the open source movement. From the artists
>point of view, the R&D they did for a piece in Connections was part
>of their stock in trade for the next piece that they might do.
>3) We gave specific challenges. For example, we wanted to create an
>"analog analogy" of emergent systems. Some cool ideas came up (we
>tried building a series of pole magnets mounted in an array).
>
>The best thing about this approach is that we were introduced to some
>good creative minds who were willing to share ideas, but it fell far
>short of the "open source" model that has had a few runaway
>successes. There is a whole fascinating dynamic to those successes
>that has been explored in some of the literature on emergent systems
>and "tipping points." I could dig up some references about the
>social dynamics of open source development if you are interested.
>
>See you in a couple of days!
>
>
>Eric Siegel
>Executive VP
> Programs and Planning
>NY Hall of Science
>47-01 111th Street
>Queens, NY 11368
>www.nyscience.org
>
>On Oct 12, 2005, at 4:03 PM, WAYNE LABAR wrote:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> As I hope to see many of you at the upcoming conference, I am able
>> to provide a link to a new project that has been initiated. This
> > project is called the Exhibit Commons
>>
>> Information can be found at our new site (some bugs still being
>> worked on) which is:
>>
>> www.exhibitcommons.org
>>
>> The idea, taken from the phenomena that is occurring across the
>> world, is to open up some of the exhibits we are developing and
>> allow the general public to develop, design, create an imagine new
>> ways of operating, new content, whole new directions. In other
>> words allow the public to play with our toys. Rather than run from
>> the power that the general public now has at their fingertips we
>> hope to embrace the fact that we live in a world that has the power
>> to interpret what we do. Through the Exhibit Commons we hope to
>> offer a chance to work with This new energy.
>>
>>
>> Although the exhibits in the Commons are Liberty Science Center
>> exhibits now, we are looking for other science centers and museums
>> who would like to experiment with This concept. We hope to make the
>> site a nexus of links to things such as This. Since many of our
>> exhibits are part of our expansion it will be a couple of years
>> till This really sees the exhibition floor, but we hope to engage
>> the public and field in making it work from the very get go - i.e.
>> right now.
>>
>> I look forward to your comments which can be emailed to me
>> directly. Be aware I get the ASTC Listserv in digest form so I
>> don't see entries very quickly.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>>
>>
>> Wayne J LaBar
>> Vice President, Exhibitions and Theaters
>> Liberty Science Center
>> 251 Phillip Street
>> Liberty State Park
>> Jersey City, NJ 07305
>>
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>> fax: 201.451.7046
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