Ideas become stronger with open source
This simple yet powerful belief has transformed technology. But it doesn't end there. Open Source Stories celebrates how community, meritocracy, and a free exchange of ideas can unlock potential across a range of disciplines. We hope these stories inspire others to embrace open source in their own work and communities.
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How can open data affect everyday life? Meet the makers, scholars, artisans, and public servants answering that question in Chile.
Farming for the Future
What are the farmers of tomorrow doing with open tools and principles today?
Like Rockets
How a teacher and an afterschool club built a creative community through open leadership and transformed a school and a city in the process.
Open source and the future of hardware
Neil Gershenfeld, Ph.D., helps consumers become creators with open source hardware and software.
What’s the open hardware movement and why does it matter? Hacker Alicia Gibb explains.
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CO.LAB: The future is collaborative
CO.LAB teaches students how to solve problems, share ideas, and create collaboratively.
Food computer program
Melanie Shimano’s west Baltimore students are sharing what they grow and what they learn.
Franklin Middle School Futuregirls
What happens when open source principles and leadership meets dedicated middle schoolers?
A community for farm innovation
Learn how Dorn Cox, Ph.D., is using open source to connect farms and communities.
Road to A.I.
Self-driving cars are here, and it's starting to get weird. This is a story about data, decisions, and the future of an entire industry.
E-nable
A global community of volunteers design, fabricate, and distribute open source 3-D-printed prosthetics for free.
The science of collective discovery
How is open hardware helping people make groundbreaking scientific discoveries?
Penn Manor
An IT director, teachers, administrators, and students help bring an open educational model and a 1:1 laptop program to Penn Manor High School.
The open patient
Two brain cancer patients open their healthcare journeys for all to see.
Art of exchange
How is Tate Exchange at Tate Modern using open source principles to transform itself into a 21st-century museum?
SPARKcon
What happens when you close city streets for a weekend and turn over control to creative people?
Because we had to
A mammoth laser cutter. An Arduino development kit. A hackerspace. Three women making art with open hardware.
A.I. Revolutionaries
Intelligent machines are taking over. But not how you might think. Meet the people behind the AI revolution.
Lessons learned from teaching young coders
Femi Owolade-Coombes discusses how the power of open source and community can unlock potential for young coders.
Jewelbots
Sara Chipps discusses innovative ways to get young girls excited about coding.
The key to coding progress
Saron Yitbarek makes the case that it's not just code that moves the tech industry forward it's also emotion.
Open agriculture
Caleb Harper discusses how open source technology is changing agriculture.
The physical future of open source
Alicia Gibb talks about bringing open source to a new layer of products through open source hardware.
InMoov robots for good
Richard Hulskes discusses his favorite project and how the open source mindset is radically changing hardware development.
Girl Develop It
Corinne Warnshuis talks about creating open source opportunities for women.
Open source hardware and innovation
Nathan Seidle discusses how open source is good for both humanity and business.