"The Human Hacking Field Guide" - a story about open source and open content hackerdom - What's in it for you and how you can help. ============================================================================ Hi all, you will hopefully enjoy reading this story: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/ The Human Hacking Field Guide Taglined: "Who said girls can't code?" Furthermore, if you read it and enjoyed it, you can help by translating it to other languages (there are already translations to Arabic and to Hebrew), by making a sound recitation of parts of the story or one of its translations, or in extreme cases, also create recording of dramatic versions of it or selected scenes. And if you don't like it, you can make a derivative work: a parody, a mutation, etc. Here is the abstract for the story: [QUOTE] Jennifer is a trendy and popular high school senior who is living and studying in the vicinity of Los Angeles. Her best friend, Taylor, convinces her to try to become a developer of open source software. He puts her under the tutorship of a different friend of his, the female open source contributor Eve, who prefers to be called “Erisa”, and who is a self-conscious and rebelling punk, with whom Jennifer finds it hard to deal. Jennifer remains determined to learn how to become an open source developer from Erisa, but there are some surprises along the road. The story (a novella) is original and complete, and is made available, along with its source code, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License (Unported), either version 3.0, or at your option, any later version. Share, build upon, even sell, and Enjoy! (As long as you keep the derivatives under the same licence.) [/QUOTE] The story emulates a teenage story (but was enjoyed by many people - both old and young, who detest most of this genre), and certainly is not perfect, and has some unrealistic elements (see http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/conclusions/ ), and in a sense I tend to project a very good reality that may not take place yet, in hope that it will materialise in part and carry reality forward and make it progress, rather than just reflect or echo reality as badly as it is or I think it is. ( Like I said in a different story - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/ : « Some people may rather err on naïvity than on cynicism. » and that includes me. I've been an idealist from a very early age, and still am today, even though I'm a very different idealist than what I used to be even a year ago. I hope to remain an idealist forever. ) Anyway, if you are interested in contributing to the Human Hacking Field Guide (or "HHFG" for short) project, its publicity, etc. just reply. I'm not forcing you to, but it will be appreciated. <NOTE> If you have a good accent in English, and good English diction, you can help me with recording this story. Here is my best attempt at it: http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/sounds/HHFG-chapter-1-The-Things-you-… and it's not too good. This story may be useful for advocating contributing to open source and open content, so any help with it, may pay in spades with a lot of interest among young and old people in contributing to it. If you want, you can make the samples CC-by-sa, but I can also exempt you for having a different, non-commercial-by-default licence (in exchange to a share of the profit). </NOTE> Best Regards, Mr. Shlomi Fish (a.k.a "Rindolf"). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg There is no IGLU Cabal! Its members can be arranged in N! orders to form N! different Cabals. The algorithm to find which order formulates the correct IGLU Cabal is NP‐Complete. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .