How about art?

Third-party corporate platforms for artists are ubiquitous – from Soundcloud to Deviant Art to Create Space. Artist cooperatives have been in existence for over a century.  Combining the two into an open source publishing platform seems inevitable.

But rather than a platform, Lynne Desilva Johnson is creating The Operating System.

Extracted from https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/yes-and-the-operating-system-2-0#/

We’re an arts and education organization that’s taken a page from the tech community’s Open Source and Peer to Peer initiatives, approaching the act of publishing with the belief that the documentation, distribution, and archiving of creative practice (understood broadly) can be revolutionary for individuals and organizations — and indeed for our society as a whole.

In addition to running workshops, facilitating conversations and panels, curating exhibits, and gathering free, open learning resources from all over the world, we also publish online and off: we’re best known for the small press that operates under The Operating System umbrella, which has published over 20 books to date (and which will publish 20 more in the next 18 months).

We facilitate many of these books from their onset, working closely with collaborators from a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, and countries. The ultimate goal, though, is to cross pollinate not only between different disciplines within the arts but also within different industries, in the service of peer to peer learning both immediately and in the future, via the development of open source / archival materials.

http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/mission/

The name “THE OPERATING SYSTEM” is meant to speak to an understanding of the self as a constantly evolving organism, which just like any other system needs to learn to adapt if it is to survive. Just like your computer, you need to be “updating your software” frequently, as your patterns and habits no longer serve you.

http://www.wavecomposition.com/article/issue-11/an-interview-with-lynne-desilva-johnson/

I learned a big lesson about modeling, which is something that entrepreneurs often talk about: I realized that it would be really helpful to have a model of something I could do within my means that could serve as an example of the type of things that we could make, the type of things that could be possible in new ways, before really starting to move into the big ideas, because developing awareness of these models – and awareness of my approach (and of me, the fact of my existence, to these people that didn’t know me from Adam)—would start to build trust.

While we might be known best for our publishing projects, in fact we are a hub for a wide range of programs which seek to cross pollinate not only between different disciplines within the arts but also within different industries, in the service of peer to peer learning both immediately and in the future, via the development of open source / archival materials; in addition our own process has been transparent from day one, seeking to model possibility for others rather than competing with them.

While we’ve already published 20+ books and this campaign will support the publication of the next 20 (already slated for release through 1/2018), the impact of this funding is far greater: for our mission of facilitated creative documentation and archiving is achieved not only through our books but also through outreach, education and community programs on the ground, as well as via the continued development of online and multimedia resources.

http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/submissions/

OPEN SUBMISSIONS: WEB

The Operating System is always in the process of resilient reinvention. This platform was designed as a hub for forwardthinking, proactive creators — individuals and groups who wish to become more than the sum of our parts, together.

Current webcontent streams of production derive from all corners of The OS’s geographic and virtual community landscape – here,  collaborators, partners and contributors have an always available opportunity for online publication and dialogue, whether in a sustained fashion or in a single post.

This online home offers exclusive online content from artists, filmmakers, musicians, performers, and writers, as well as in depth profiles of the Awesome Creators who make up our global community, across a wide range of disciplines. This content aims to explore the processes that inform and facilitate creative production, valuating and documenting models for further dialogue, exploration, and co-collaborative discovery on and offline. It is meant as an archive, not a newspaper – this content remains searchable and viable for personal and public use from its inception, and it is hoped that it can become a teaching tool both for institutional use and autodidacts alike.

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These documents earn wealth for their creators specifically because they are proprietary.

Think of it. Legal code is an intellectual product created by the government for public benefit. Yet, it can only be distributed in the form of a  product owned by private law firms.

Stated another way, law is much like proprietary software.

But what if legal were like an operating system? What if it was open-sourced, and transparent. What if anyone could navigate legal systems? What if the operating system worked in most every language?

This is the goal of Common Accord

If you’d like to help make this happen, check out Common Accord’s Slack group or their Conference at MIT.

Extracted from: https://github.com/CommonAccord/Cmacc-Org/commit/be62562f4cc2d0d241512850f12598b21a8e509f

CmAQuick.sec=CommonAccord is an initiative to create global codes of legal transacting by codifying and automating legal documents, including contracts, permits, organizational documents, and consents. We anticipate that there will be codes for each jurisdiction, in each language. For international dealings and coordination, there will be at least one “global” code. {CCL.Link}

Conference.sec=We are co-organizing a conference at MIT Media Lab – May 23-24: Conference Program

Slack.sec=Join our Slack group!

Codification.sec=Codification of legal form documents makes them transparent and continuously improving. It is part of the tradition of legal codification – from Hammurabi through Napoleon, the UCC, the ALI, and Creative Commons. Codification demystifies law and encourages transparency and autonomy.

Extracted from http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001556.html

CommonAccord are basically doing the same thing described – wrapping together a smart contract with a legal document and then creating some form of identifier out of it when they produce their final contract.

Extracted from – http://www.commonaccord.org/index.php?action=doc&file=S/About/CCL/0.md

Proposal – Center for Collaborative Law

1. Problem
   Transacting is slow, insecure, uncertain and expensive.

1. Problems of payment, clearing, automation and interoperability are being addressed by the FinTech and open source communities, notably in blockchain implementations.
2. Legal compliance and optimization remain slow, uncertain and expensive.
3. Data privacy and security remain weak.
4. Centralization creates systemic risks.
5. Legal codification is slow and fragmented.

• Solution
  Add open-source codified legal documents to blockchain automation platforms:

1. Codify legal documents and records using the “Cmacc” data model and the tools of open source;
2. Iterate a legal “object model” to describe persons, properties, places, transactions and relationships; and
3. Add a layer of user-managed access control.
4. Integrate with blockchain and other platforms, such as git, document management, document assembly and enterprise contract management systems.

• Impact
  
  1. Rapid legal codification.
  2. Improved speed, transparency and certainty in business dealings.
  3. Greater access to justice, rule of law and self-governance.
  4. Greater transparency of institutions.
  5. Improved outcomes for social objectives such as privacy, health, climate and decentralization.
• Sauce
  
  1. A simple record format that renders into documents and has the power of a “graph” object model with multiple prototype inheritance.
  2. A large number of sample legal document solutions.
  3. Fit with blockchain and OAuth-UMA security.
  4. Fifteen years of efforts regarding source-based legal codification.
• Status – Convergence of Blockchain, Legal and Access Security
  A number of currents are converging:
  1. Bitcoin has spurred interest in P2P transacting platforms. Among many other efforts, the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project brings together a large number of actors to agree on a common platform.
  2. CommonAccord has a data model (Cmacc) that can extend P2P solutions to all legal relationships and be a bridge for integration with legacy systems such as Word (legal), ECM and ERM.
  3. There is a strong tradition of legal codification via bar and trade groups, agencies and clinics, and now also legal “hackers”.
  4. Decentralized access control based on OAuth and related technologies is widely used and well-understood.

  The combination of Blockchain/Cmacc/Access is ripe for open-source iteration.

• Plan
  There is currently no legal structure to hold the shared legal text, which we expect to evolve into a legal operating system. Nor are there national or trade-sector equivalents. 

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