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At the Fedora Project Remy served as Community Action and Impact Lead, bringing more heat and light to the distro's user and contributor base. As resident Hackademic, Remy led the Fedora Council's University Involvement Initiative, expanding and replicating the models used in RIT's courses on Humanitarian FOSS Development and Business/Legal Environment of FOSS that built the first academic minor in FOSS and Free Culture at a university in the United States. With help from Sugarlabs, TeachingOpensource, The Software Freedom Law Center, Aleph Objects, and many others, Remy brings The Open Source Way to campuses, conferences, and campaigns everywhere he can. You can keep up with his story via Twitter and his decauseblog.
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Since these technologies and tools, but most importantly the production process (think Ford Vehicle v.s Assembly Line) have not really existed prior, it's more like a birth than a rebirth. If I had to put a name to it, I'd refer to our current epoch on the path to the next technological singularity as The Information Enlightenment.
<em>"... [a] vision, in which every professor is a potential saboteur, painting virtual moustaches on the Mona Lisas of scholarship"</em>
lolz
Seriously though, Transparency is the key to scratching everybody's itch. I'm just as worried about vandalism as the next guy, but when we have revision control systems to provide change logs and 'git blame' for annotations, accountability will be built-in form the bit-level up.