Business in 2005

Here I intend to keep writings and links to resources about human business models (and examples).

The idea is that I'm a man, not a virtual machine. And all people I reach through this jungle of cables and hardware devices are also human beings. Human beings eat and make love and dance and watch the sky, smell flowers and food and walks with their body, which is something we can't transmit over the wires (yet?).

• NetLab team - [en,it]
  Brief presentation (considered "brilliant" by a community guy - thanks!) of the team I work with and with which and share visions and moods since 1997.
• GNU Business Network - [it]
  A brief report of my reading of the GBN Definition Draft. My reading is in italian, sorry (I'm a human being grown in an italian-speaking community).
• Cluetrain manifesto - [many languages]
  A human approach to value and marketing. We are the market. We are not a mass. Mass market is dead!
• How software patents actually work - [video]
  A video release by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure to learn about software patents, and how they limit free competition. The link brings you to a wiki, from there you can know more about patents.
• Modifying the INSPIRE Directive - [en]
  The benefits and detriments of the INSPIRE proposed Directive, and a call for Action.
  Contains links to a good amount of other writings of the topic.
  An interesting one is written by Jo Walsh, a GIS developer: exploring the eurospatial cartel.
  Here you can find a thread on freegis-list about it.
  Here is a short mail of myself about the need for free and public geographical data sharing infrastructure on gfoss mailing list [it - only available to subscribers, sorry].
  Please read and sign the Open access to State-Collected Geospatial Data Manifesto [en|it]
  Updates
  • 2006-Jan: INSPIRE directive on the way to enforce copyright on state-collected geo data
  • 2006-Feb: discussion on #geofoundation about (among other things) adding free data access to the upcoming geo foundation agenda.
    Interesting a link to a document submitted to INSPIRE describing a Spatial Data Interest Community compiled by Markus Neteler, coordinator of the GRASS development team, titled Free and Open Source Software for Spatial Data Infrastructure [pdf]
• Where is the money in GIS?
  A thread on freegis-list about GIS market. Thoughts from free developers and market players.