Open Source, Love, and Social Responsibility
summary
Argument: the open source stack already totals 70 million lines of code and thousands of contributors, so the claim is that those assets should solve real social problems. Evidence: measured LEMP/Ubuntu sources, contributor counts and surprising codebase sizes. Concrete builds and outcomes: a PHP tsunami missing-persons app, Airbnb disaster response tool, IBM big-data civic challenge, a one-handed keyboard enabling 90 wpm, community fundraising that flies contributors in, and mental-health prompt initiatives. Practical proposals: SMS alerts for vaccines and for water contamination and anti-poaching.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:00Adoption and Prompt
- 3:15Martin Luther King Quote
- 4:29Lines of Code
- 10:20Why should we care
- 11:48Daveys definition of love
- 12:29Daveys mentors
- 14:30Sunshine PHP
- 15:44The Power of PHP
- 17:08BCorps
- 18:05Etsy
- 20:05Third World Problems
- 21:14Nokia 1100
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