Tuesday, 12 October 2004

Open Source Space Development
Topic: Musings
What are the ways that you could motivate a group of people? There are several.

I believe that the there is a model that has shown its strengths. It has never been used for a tool for space activism but it has changed the way and the quality of the way software has been developed and used. This inovation is called open source software.

I believe we can use the same princples in creating an organization for development and promotion of space travel and settlement. While the hardware would not be free the engineering, labor, promotion and education could. I can see a form of volunteerism florish in a fashion of a volunteer fire department.

There has been an old saying that a volunteer fire department could build the Space Shuttle for a hundred dollars and a case of beer. I for one would like to find out if this could happen.