Operation Sandy and Open Source

http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-means-of-production-how-free-software-organized-occupy-sandy/

" How do we out-compete the government using open-source tools? I can tell you that with Occupy Sandy we already did it. We had a better system up within a month — for managing work orders, inventory, requests, workflows. What if we had had that during the occupation? How much easier would life have been for managing the Zuccotti Park experience if there had been people trained in such a system? We’d have had vehicles, warehouses and kitchens all coordinated in a way that was sustainable and easy to plug into. If we can do that, it’ll become competition between us and other systems. Then we’re on the path to the type of changes that people in the open-source world realize is coming."

Another piece of the puzzle.

Hackers; the new Civil Libertarians?

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/510641/geeks-are-the-new-guardians-of-our-civil-liberties/

"A decade-plus of anthropological fieldwork among hackers and like-minded geeks has led me to the firm conviction that these people are building one of the most vibrant civil liberties movements we’ve ever seen. It is a culture committed to freeing information, insisting on privacy, and fighting censorship, which in turn propels wide-ranging political activity. In the last year alone, hackers have been behind some of the most powerful political currents out there."

Whatever Gabriella Coleman writes, I believe.