Forking Pop Culture and Remixing Code: Where Open Movements Intersect
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Builds and runs Archive of Our Own in Ruby as a volunteer project that starts in 2007, goes public 2008–09, and now hosts 1,000,000+ works with millions of bookmarks; maintains an invite-only, volunteer core of about 52 contributors (roughly 90% women). Argues owning servers and code matters more than living on YouTube or GitHub, calls out fair use uncertainty, unpaid gift-economy labor, and cultural parallels between forking code and remixing fandom.
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chapters (37)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23Video
- 2:27Addiction
- 3:10Littermate
- 3:54Virgil
- 4:25Legal Fair Use
- 5:51Back in the day
- 6:33The Internet
- 7:53My People
- 8:10Learning to Code
- 9:30The Big Web
- 10:17A grassroots movement
- 10:33Own the servers
- 12:20Volunteering
- 14:05Learning Curve
- 15:32Light of Edge
- 15:57Books of Literature
- 16:34The Get All Network
- 17:41Originality
- 18:34Influence
- 21:17Art Design Patterns
- 22:10Own Your Influence
- 22:26Work Free
- 22:36Explore Creativity
- 24:53Find Your Broken People
- 25:11Open Source vs Commercial
- 26:04Open Source Projects
- 26:21Free Software
- 28:16Open Source
- 29:40Community Work
- 31:21Expectations
- 31:48Community Liberty
- 34:19Reinventing Nation Building
- 36:12Social Motivations
- 37:46Value of Enthusiasm
- 39:52People Happiness
- 40:20Open Culture
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