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The picture of open source I’ve seen presented in these two talks does confirm most of my initial views on open source and how it functions. Collaboration and unity within a community seem to be very uniform views in the open source world. One aspect that broadened my view about collaboration within the open source community was evident in both presentations; this was the building of relationships between the developers and the non-developers. In the Web Audio scenario, developers and musicians, whereas in the open video’s case, developers and movie makers. Originally I always use to think open source collaboration was mostly developers, developers and more developers. Of course, this assumption was incredibly closed minded, and I am glad these presentations shed some light. I am now aware that anyone can become one with the open source community, there are no constraints, or restrictions; if one has a will to learn and contribute the open source community is always open.
Another view I initially had about open source that was reinforced after attending these presentations is the need and the will to make the web more open. In both Dave and Scott’s presentations, they both showcased new technologies that will no doubt help the web become more openin this endeavor. The Audio Data API will allow anyone to be able to manipulate audio without needing to purchase fairly expensive software. Similarly, the open video technologies such as popcorn will help lower the dependencies on plug-in based technologies such as Flash and Java. By simply using the power of the browser the ability to create is almost endless. All in all both presentations showed the true spirit of open source and proved to me that in the future, keeping the web open may not be so impossible.
