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Open Software is a familiar concept, but Open can and has gone beyond software and is creating miracles and magic all over the world. Can we put a man on the moon, you and me? Can you test cancer for 15 cents? Why would a big corporation unpatent its most popular product? Yes, openness enables us to.

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  • 1. Open Beyond Software Kshitiz Khanal Kshitiz.org Open Knowledge Nepal

2. What is Open? the source materials are freely available for anyone who wants to re-use and/or modify them. 3. What can be Open? Counter question: What can NOT be OPEN ? 4. Tesla Motors, Hyperloop, and Elon Musk Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the worlds most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Teslas position in this regard. 5. Hyperloop 6. Could we put a man on the moon (you and me)? 7. PROJECT BALLOON: CloudLab PROJECT ROCKET: Chimera PROJECT CUBESAT: COSMoS 8. A theoretical physicist ahead of time arXiv.or gPaulGinsparg, Ph.D. 1991 AD 9. Fairytales and Break-throughs age 15 paper sensor pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer 5 minutes 3 cents. Jack Andraka 10. push-pull train crossing the monumental Wiesener Viaduct over the Landwasser river [Wiki Loves Monuments] 11. Open Data 12. Whats next?