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an interesting conclusion about how to turn new and casual contributors into long-time community members: the key is to distribute ownership.

To wrap up, there were several things that motivated me to stay active in the Mozilla community: * A belief in the mission of the project — to create a web browser that supports and promotes the use of open standards * An interest in the technology — initially with the Gecko logo as my hook * The feeling of belonging in a community of people with similar interests * The desire to give something back to a project that gave (and still gives) me the best browser in the world for free * The experiences gained by managing a website — HTML, CSS, server configurations, and perhaps most importantly, the English language * The recognition and respect from Mozilla project members for my contributions * The pride of being responsible for an important piece of the project

Unfinished trajectories

This book was part of our installation in Casa da Música, 2007

Unfinished Trajectories (Graphic Instalation in Casa da Música, Porto)

Reflection based on visitors’ emotions and other viewpoints, suggested by the spaces of the Casa da Música. ⁄ The objective is to list, classify, contextualise, build relations and map the respective content.

Experiences represented in various forms that in turn generate a series of unfinished “scores” based on a wide array of details.

This project aims to question standard trajectories and propose new possibilities. New forms of discovering spaces thereby emerge, organised in alphabetical order, by scale, capacity or other criteria...

This is an unfinished project, delivering improbable and sometimes absurd itineraries.

The combination of social networking with public messaging, link posting, and subscriptions leads to impressive synergy effects, but there is also the drawback of information overload, information loss, distraction, and content redundancy.

SHERMAN’S WAY starts with two strangers forced into a road trip of convenience only to veer off the path into a quirky exploration of friendship, fatherhood and the task of finding one’s place in the world – a world in which one wrong turn can change your destination.