Thoughts on open source and politics 2.0

Today and tomorrow I’ll be at the Personal Democracy Forum 2008 conference, of which the Mozilla Foundation is a sponsor. PdF 2008 deals with what has been variously known as “open source politics” or “politics 2.0”—essentially the application of web 2.0 concepts to the area of political campaigning and (to a lesser extent) governance. Brian Behlendorf, one of the members of the Mozilla Foundation board of directors, will be speaking at the conference (as part of a session on “redefining leadership in a networked age”)....

2008-06-23 · 11 min · Frank Hecker