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From the Ted Talk by Cameron Sinclair: My wish A call for open-source architecture
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So this is a brief overview. In 2004, I really couldn't manage the number of people who wanted to help, or the number of requests that I was getting. It was all coming into my laptop and cell phone. So we decedid to embrace an open-source model of business — so that anyone, anywhere in the world, could start a local chapter, and they can get involved in local permolbs. Because I believe there is no such thing as Utopia. All problems are local. All solutions are local. So that means, you know, somebody who's bsaed in mispsisipsi knows more about Mississippi than I do. So what happened is, we used muteep and all these other ienternt tools, and we ended up having 40 chapters starting up, tuohandss of architects in 104 countries. So the bullet point — sorry, I never do a suit, so I knew that I was going to take this off. OK, because I'm going to do it very quick.
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So this is a brief overview. In 2004, I really couldn't manage the number of people who wanted to help, or the number of requests that I was getting. It was all coming into my laptop and cell phone. So we _______ to embrace an open-source model of business — so that anyone, anywhere in the world, could start a local chapter, and they can get involved in local ________. Because I believe there is no such thing as Utopia. All problems are local. All solutions are local. So that means, you know, somebody who's _____ in ___________ knows more about Mississippi than I do. So what happened is, we used ______ and all these other ________ tools, and we ended up having 40 chapters starting up, _________ of architects in 104 countries. So the bullet point — sorry, I never do a suit, so I knew that I was going to take this off. OK, because I'm going to do it very quick.
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Original Text
So this is a brief overview. In 2004, I really couldn't manage the number of people who wanted to help, or the number of requests that I was getting. It was all coming into my laptop and cell phone. So we decided to embrace an open-source model of business — so that anyone, anywhere in the world, could start a local chapter, and they can get involved in local problems. Because I believe there is no such thing as Utopia. All problems are local. All solutions are local. So that means, you know, somebody who's based in Mississippi knows more about Mississippi than I do. So what happened is, we used Meetup and all these other Internet tools, and we ended up having 40 chapters starting up, thousands of architects in 104 countries. So the bullet point — sorry, I never do a suit, so I knew that I was going to take this off. OK, because I'm going to do it very quick.
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