Solidary communities

It is amazing to see the maturity that free and open source software has acquired over the last years. I’ll use the term solidary community software, because that’s the foundation that makes this software successful: the coordinated effort of many different individuals that want to share with others tools that can make life easier. And I must say they achieve their goal in a very efficient manner.

Take a simple example: this blog. It runs on solidary community software: GNU Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and WordPress. New features are added continuously to the core product and new extensions are developed by individuals or groups of individuals that do not necessary belong to the WordPress developers community. Now, this is a very interesting point, people that do not necessary belong to the project are able to work and provide extensions for it, or even build their own modified version of the software.

I think the solidary community software model requires all our attention. We should analyze and see whether it could be used in other environments and how it could be applied.

One interesting application could be solidary community intelligence. Wikipedia is a very simple example. I am thinking about something much more reactive, like blogging and forums but in a more structured way.

What about solidary community help and health-care. Although many associations exist, it looks like developers are more kind to help providing tools to the community, than doctors and nurses are to provide assistance to people that do not have the necessary resources. Important to note than in the solidary community software world everybody can get the software for free, regardless of their financial situation. If doctors can get software for free, shouldn’t they provide their services for free as well?

I don’t want to make apology of communism, but rather stress the importance to study the solidary community model to understand how it could be adapted and applied to other domains.

The second post

Although I am a high volume consumer of internet information, I haven't contributed much yet. I think I could (and who doesn't?) and that's why I decided to start this blog. I am not saying that it is going to be of any interest to anybody, but I guess some people might find some of the posts useful.

This blog is not aimed to let everybody know about my life. I'll keep it for me if you don't mind. I will just write about things that I am interested in, problems I have encountered and how I have solved them . And don't expect it to be poetic, English is not my first language. If it is written in a way that everybody can understand, I'll be more than happy.

I have recently founded a new company with my ex boss (and now partner). The company's main goal is to build Web2.0 services. So expect to find a lot of information related to that activity.

And that's it for my second post. I hope I'll be in the mood in the next days to add more interesting information.

Deeper Inside first post!

Deeper Inside first post!