Sino:bit
Open Source coding projects for children. CN000001, the first certified open source hardware in China.
Sino:bit designed by Naomi Wu with the help of David, built by Elecrow, is an Open Source coding projects for children, the first Open Source Hardware Association #oshwa certified board in China.
Sino:bit is CN000001, the first certified open source hardware in China.
Naomi Wu is a passionate and articulate advocate of Open Source.
Sino:bit is designed to introduce children at an early age to the concept of Open Source.
Open Source can be taken a step further, as part of the collaborate commons, self-organise events and conferences, do not rely upon Make and Maker Fayre.
Naomi Wu has come under a lot of stick, attacked by men, she cannot be real, she did not design the stuff. Sad as it is pathetic.
The same mindset that thinks women are there to be abused.
She gets attacked for looking sexy, for how she dresses.
One sad pathetic example of humanity attacked her for wearing a pink dress.
She is intelligent, articulate, and that really pisses off the trolls. How dare she, a mere slip of a girl, challenge them in their own world.
Then it is a state of denial, she must be a toy or a robot, someone else is telling her what to do.
She has to prove she is real.
Editor of Make magazine Dale Dougherty made the astounding claim:
I am questioning who she [Naomi Wu] really is. Naomi is a persona, not a real person. She is several or many people.
But, after a lot of soul searching, Dale Dougherty has admitted he was wrong, furthermore, offered to put things right.
Yes, the action is good, and needs to be monitored.
One aspect of all these clever designers, and Naomi Wu is a passionate and eloquent advocate, is Open Source.
Sino:bit, designed by Naomi Wu, with help from friends, is an Open Source coding project for children. But is is also designed to introduce children to the concept of Open Source at an early age.
Open Source should though be seen within the context of collaborative commons, open coops, sharing economy.
We are now postcapitalism. We should be asking how does Open Source, within the wider context, with the help of Make and Maker Fayre move forward?
One suggestion I will make, and I hope it gets taken forward, is self-organising conferences.
Look to Barcelona and Catalonia. There is not only extensive open coops, but a network of cooperating open coops.
With the help of Naomi Wu and friends, let us see the first truly collaborative commons Maker Fayre in China, ideally in Shenzhen, then if a viable model established, help to replicate it worldwide.
