Open Source Community Application Room (OSCAR)
Will Kennedy Park be the site for an IT-based community center? For years now the likes of Firefox and Linux have been treading the path of open source. It has recently been declared in court to be a legally binding way of conducting business. Free software build mostly by cooperative learning managed by a few paid positions. Firefox has ~270 paid employees with thousands of contributors, hundreds of fan-built modifications a very useful product. In the same way OSCAR would develop projects and learn hands-on what it takes to succeed and fail on the individual project but ultimately come to a successful completion as a team and focus those team ideals and skills toward the community, think of it as a geeky boy scouts.
We wish to bring the youth of Portland the opportunity to persue their technical dreams in a very business oriented and accessible way. I keep saying youth. i really mean anyone who wishes to bring their laptop or other skills to the team, age or from other areas.
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