Open Journal Montreal

this is a new entry in an ongoing Open exploration of the cultural commons.
So true: At its best, partial knowledge is the starting point from which more large scale patterns are initially hypothesized. It elicts curiosity and mobilizes interpretive effort.
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John Ruskin as a child, before the aesthetic, geographical, and architectural theories that come later, grew [...]

by Risa Dickens
Open source software releases the long-winded code that lies beneath the bright surfaces of a user interface. It does so in order to contribute to a collaborative environment, to attract contributors, and to demonstrate its degree of commitment to an open society. But for open source to access those deep wells of people [...]