OSNV Mission

The mission of the Open Source Nevada web hub is to bring together entrepreneurs, business development experts, and educators who share a vision of Open Source as a Technology Revolution that can help Nevada cross the digital divide and to provide connections to information and guidance organizations need to take full advantage of this revolution so that all our citizens can share the promise of the Information Economy.

Applications for the Digital Commons

Above is an example of content produced using an Open Source application, Jahshaka, on an open content site, YOUTube. >>> Read More

Community Collaboration

The OSNV site uses a collaborative web publishing environment. This environment enables the content experts - you - to directly and immediately publish material to the site using a web browser editing tool and easy to learn (15 minutes) formatting rules. See Contributors page to become part of the team.

This approach removes the bottle neck of having to push all new additions and modifications though the web master, whose only value add, in most cases, is applying the arcane html rules to the content. With the collaborative environment the software manages the html and the people focus on the content.

The collaborative environment enables OSNV to build a community of contributors to the knowledge and programs presented on the site.

Revolution / Paradigm Shift

Technology normally advances in small evolutionary steps as one engineer or scientist builds on the collective knowledge of the field to introduce the next small step. We see this in software as companies add yet another feature to already feature burdened applications.

Infrequently a really stunning revolutionary idea dramatically changes the rate and direction of technology development. The PC is an example of a revolutionary concept that changed the world.

These points of dramatic technology change are often referred to in the business community as Paradigm Shifts. Investors and executives focus on Paradigm Shifts because a complete restructure if the market usually follows. New winners are born. Old market leaders die.

This Open Source Revolution topic presents articles that make a compelling case that Open Source is a revolution and that all should be aware of the paradigm shift.

OSNV believes the open-source paradigm shift is an empowering and profitable phenomena for those who embrace it. And, it will be a force of destruction for those that resist or adopt late.