finally, a definition

after we have “open” everything in the world, we finally have a definition.

the “open knowledge definition” has an aim “of drawing out a common set of principles which often already exist, explicitly or implicitly, in existing projects or licenses.” something I have been looking forward to for quite a while now. creative commons was just a license, not a philosophy.

LINK: Open Knowledge Definition

waiting for the evening

have been sitting through a long talk; interesting but slow and verbose. tonight I will be making a poster and blog post (at cityspinning) about the “local weather” project.

the presentation happened at The Green City Lab at PICNIC (remotely) yesterday. short but focussed and good (I hope). meanwhile intensely researched the CANOPIES project yesterday as part of the 3hubs intensive eco-design effort.

fever, photography, soil and more

have managed to contract the seasonal infection – am kind of down with cold and fever.

so, the first chapter of the invisible farm is done. next is the soil workshop in October. the vegetables the children at jamghat are growing are doing well, I hear. but the kids have no camera so they haven’t been able to document the growth. trying to get somebody to do a photography workshop with a simple digicam with them.

meanwhile this week me and some of my friends will hopefully participate (remotely) in The Green City Lab at PICNIC in amsterdam (thanks to Rob).

back in bangalore

yesterday on the way back from delhi, I had a window seat in the flight. it was full-moon, a big yellow moon flew with me all the way. when we were only about ten minutes away from the airport, I was looking out of the window. the moon was reflected by the numerous lakes on the ground.

there seemed to be MANY lakes. all the land was water and patches of it had the moon every now and then. some lakes seemed to have some translucent film covering them. in the darkness, all of this was quite intense.