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This is a four-story building in a great location in Dali Old Town. We have signed a three-year lease with the goal of providing free accommodation and events to support open source work, especially those breaking the old definition of open source.

Open Source Everything

Initially, open source referred to open source software: computer software whose source code can be obtained freely, allowing anyone to view, modify, and distribute the code behind the software.

At the Open Source House, open source refers to open source methods (The Open Source Way). For example, Wikipedia not only has open-source back-end software but also has open-source front-end content and communities. Closed source is conducive to building personal and private relationships with a center of interest in commerce, while open source is conducive to building open and friendly community relationships and relationships with public spaces. Open source methods include transparency, collaboration, community, frequent public releases, and decision-making by action.

For example, if you cook a delicious dish and open source it, it means:

🍽️ Open use of results Allowing everyone to taste the dish
🧾 Open source code Allowing everyone to see the recipe
🧂 Open remix rights Allowing everyone to modify the recipe, such as adding some mushrooms
📢 Open distribution rights Allowing everyone to spread the recipe

And others do not need to apply separately. You can share without conditions (CC0), or you can set some restrictions on these shares. The cultural field generally uses Creative Commons licenses, with which you can require attribution, prohibit modification, or prohibit commercial use.

Open source in the software field is already very prosperous and has established the mainstream technology of our society, from Android on mobile phones to cloud server backends to the cutting-edge experiments of Web3...But in the cultural and artistic field, open source is still in its infancy, and the mainstream culture of our society is Hollywood movies, Disney animations, variety shows, big brands and fast fashion clothing, art collections owned by 1% of the rich, and personal creations of 1% masters controlled by big capital.

We want to start with small specific work and bring open source into areas lacking open source.

Open Source Work

Arendt writes in The Human Condition: "What modern people lacks is the public nature of labor." In public, I produce myself, and thus the society I want to produce. Those who have not had this kind of labor experience are slaves.

(From SERIOUS "Why Work is Waiting to be Invented?")

Open Source Family House

Chosen Family Capitalist families are based on private marriage and bloodlines, while communism advocates the abolition of families. We want to learn from open source cooperation and ethnic tribal culture to find a new model different from traditional family structure.
Family House Different from biological families and core families based on marriage, kinship in family houses is determined by a common residence of some people. Outside of the Han nationality, many societies are composed of family houses rather than families. People do not have paternal surnames, but rather surnames of their family houses, and family houses themselves can be matrilineal, patrilineal, or mixed according to their own choices.