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Open Source Comics
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- Description:
- Comic books seem relevant again. Open source software continues to gain momentum. Web applications such as blogs and social networks have revolutionized web content. It’s high time that these concepts came together to form one big social network of writers and artists collaborating on non-commercial comics in a single mythology.
- Questions
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- What is open source software?
- How can open source software ethics be applied to the creation of comics?
- Who owns the characters and stories?
- Are these comics published on the web or on paper?
- Who can be a part of this and create their own comics?
- Is there any sort of editorial control over the characters, settings and circumstances?
- How do you manage continuity and consistency and avoid a free-for-all?
- Can this be organized into a single social network?
- Can you move your own comics off of the network and share them with anyone?
- Doesn't this sound a little like communism?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Community / Social Networks
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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