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===Global presentation of the Open Source===
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===Introduction to Open Source===
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First, Anais and Gabriel made a global presentation of the Open Source, what is it, how it works.(paper)
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First, Anais and Gabriel introduced us to the Open Source philosophy, its nature and its principles.(paper)
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Thanks to this presentation, we have learned about the difference between free software and Open Source, and about the conditions of OSI. These definitions gave us the basis to raise some questions :
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Thanks to this presentation, we learned about the definition of the open source and its story. Indeed an opensource software has to respond to three criteria : free redistribution, source code access and creation of derive software based on the original. In 1998,  Eric S. Raymond creates with Bruce Perens the Open Source Initiative(OSI) in order to developp the open source ideolgy in the software community. At the end of this first presentation we debated about several questions
   
   
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- What comparisons can we make beetween the software's world (and its concept of OpenSource) and synthetic biology's world that tries to apply the Open Source.
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- Can we compare the software's world (and its concept of OpenSource) and the synthetic biology's world that tries to apply the Open Source?
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- Between free software and open source, towards what way synbiology heads ?
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- Can we imagine the science of synthetic biology only based on open source ?
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- What is the impact or the role of the community on the type of model adopted ?
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- The researches in synbiology and biotechnologies are they adapted to the Open source (and vice versa) ?
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Thanks to his presentation, we have learned about the Moore's laws and the impact of the open source on brevets and firms. We raised some questions about this impact :  
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Thanks to his presentation, we learned about the Moore's laws and the impact of the open source on patents and firms. We raised some questions about this impact :  
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- Can patents and OpenSource co-exist without killing the monopoly of big firms ?
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- Can brevets and OpenSource exist together without killing the monopoly of big firms ?
 
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==Second meeting : 02/07/2013==
==Second meeting : 02/07/2013==
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People there: Caroline, Anais, Eric, Nima, Zouh, Gabriel, Damir
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People present: Caroline, Anais, Eric, Nima, Zhou, Gabriel, Damir
=== Rules and Free Software===
=== Rules and Free Software===
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Zhou made a presentation about the rules of the open source and the different kind of free software
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Zhou made a presentation about the rules of Open Source, the different kind of free software
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in computer science. (Paper)
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in computer science, and the comparison between computer science and biology.
[[Team:Paris_Saclay/opensourcezouh|Zhou presentation]].
[[Team:Paris_Saclay/opensourcezouh|Zhou presentation]].
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In iGEM, the concept of open source is quite similar to the open source definition. First, biobricks (that we can compare to softwares) can be modified and put again on the "iGEM market", the Registry of Standard Biological Parts). In addition, the code source of the biobricks is available (we have standard parts, with clear description of the composition of the biobricks). Finally, every team has access to these biobricks : free redistribution. But the consequences are quite different, because we manipulate the living and not just made-man softwares.
   
   
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Thanks to his presentation we have highlight the positive and negative points of free software :  
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After his presentation, we discussed the positive and negative points of the adaptation of open source in biology :  
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1. Low initial capital.
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- Open source can boost the "avancée" of synthetic biology, because not just biologists in laboratories can experiment and develop interesting projects
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- The monopoly of big firms can stop
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- This new technology can touch everybody and become a common tool of our daily life (we can imagine lighting trees as the cambridge project)
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The source code may modify by any user so there are too many version. The upgrade of open
 
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source software is not include all the modification which the user has made.
 
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If some users are distracted by something else, a dead community is worth than closed
 
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Open source software is not safer than those closed software. The security is depend on the
 
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- not enough control, people can modify bacteria in their garage
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- we do not know the consequences of an accidental proliferation
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- bioterrism can quickly expand because of the share of information on the internet
=== The democratization of sciences===
=== The democratization of sciences===
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Thanks to his presentation we have better understood the extent and the impact of open source (in science) in our society. An important "made it by yourselve" movement is emerging, and this movement impacts our society and the way it was organized before. The questions we wanted to highlight here are :  
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Thanks to his presentation we have better understood the extent and the impact of open source (in science) in our society. An important "do it yourself" movement is emerging, and this movement impacts our society and the way it was organized before. The questions we wanted to highlight here are :  
- Can we imagine in few years the death of big manufacturing firms? Because people could make by themselves objects they need.
- Can we imagine in few years the death of big manufacturing firms? Because people could make by themselves objects they need.
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- What are the risks of this democratisation ? Can we let everybody make synthetic biology ? What king of measures the gouvernment can take to limit these ricks without lead to a dictatorship ?  
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- What are the risks of this democratisation ? Can we let everybody make synthetic biology ? What king of measures the gouvernment can take to limit these ricks without lead to a dictatorship ?
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== Thrird meeting : 09/07/13==
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== Third meeting : 09/07/13==
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People there : Caroline, Anais, Eric, Zouh, Damir
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People there : Caroline, Anais, Eric, Zhou, Damir
Eric made a presentation about the bioterrorism (powerpoint)
Eric made a presentation about the bioterrorism (powerpoint)
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Thanks to this presentation, we noticed that the origins of bioterrorism are diverse, it could be a sect, a party, one person or an entire group.  
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Thanks to this presentation, we learned that the origins of bioterrorism can be diverse, it could be a sect, a political party, one person or an entire group.  
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Contents

Open Source Reflexion

We have organized three big meetings during this summer. During each meeting, we chose two problematics that one or two members of our team had to present. Among these problematics there was: what is opensource ? what are the rules that govern the opensource ? what is the influence of the open source in our economy ? ... After each presentation we debated, and we tried to hightlight the important points of each problematics, what we learned and what were the future questions we wanted to address.


First meeting : 25/06/2013

People present: Caroline, Anais, Eric, Nima, Zhou, Gabriel and Nadia

This meeting was our first contact with the concept of Open Source applied to synthetic biology and with the impact of Open Source in our economy.


Introduction to Open Source

First, Anais and Gabriel introduced us to the Open Source philosophy, its nature and its principles.(paper)

Thanks to this presentation, we learned about the definition of the open source and its story. Indeed an opensource software has to respond to three criteria : free redistribution, source code access and creation of derive software based on the original. In 1998, Eric S. Raymond creates with Bruce Perens the Open Source Initiative(OSI) in order to developp the open source ideolgy in the software community. At the end of this first presentation we debated about several questions

- Can we compare the software's world (and its concept of OpenSource) and the synthetic biology's world that tries to apply the Open Source?

- Can we imagine the science of synthetic biology only based on open source ?

- The researches in synbiology and biotechnologies are they adapted to the Open source (and vice versa) ?


Bioeconomy and open source

Second, Eric made a presentation of the state of bioeconomy today (power point)

Thanks to his presentation, we learned about the Moore's laws and the impact of the open source on patents and firms. We raised some questions about this impact :

- Can patents and OpenSource co-exist without killing the monopoly of big firms ?


Second meeting : 02/07/2013

People present: Caroline, Anais, Eric, Nima, Zhou, Gabriel, Damir

Rules and Free Software

Zhou made a presentation about the rules of Open Source, the different kind of free software in computer science, and the comparison between computer science and biology.

Zhou presentation.

In iGEM, the concept of open source is quite similar to the open source definition. First, biobricks (that we can compare to softwares) can be modified and put again on the "iGEM market", the Registry of Standard Biological Parts). In addition, the code source of the biobricks is available (we have standard parts, with clear description of the composition of the biobricks). Finally, every team has access to these biobricks : free redistribution. But the consequences are quite different, because we manipulate the living and not just made-man softwares.

After his presentation, we discussed the positive and negative points of the adaptation of open source in biology :

Some advantages :

- Open source can boost the "avancée" of synthetic biology, because not just biologists in laboratories can experiment and develop interesting projects

- The monopoly of big firms can stop

- This new technology can touch everybody and become a common tool of our daily life (we can imagine lighting trees as the cambridge project)


Disadvantage:

- not enough control, people can modify bacteria in their garage

- we do not know the consequences of an accidental proliferation

- bioterrism can quickly expand because of the share of information on the internet

The democratization of sciences

Damir made a presentation about the development and the democratization of science thanks to the open source (PowerPoint)

Thanks to his presentation we have better understood the extent and the impact of open source (in science) in our society. An important "do it yourself" movement is emerging, and this movement impacts our society and the way it was organized before. The questions we wanted to highlight here are :

- Can we imagine in few years the death of big manufacturing firms? Because people could make by themselves objects they need.

- What are the risks of this democratisation ? Can we let everybody make synthetic biology ? What king of measures the gouvernment can take to limit these ricks without lead to a dictatorship ?

Third meeting : 09/07/13

People there : Caroline, Anais, Eric, Zhou, Damir

Eric made a presentation about the bioterrorism (powerpoint)

Thanks to this presentation, we learned that the origins of bioterrorism can be diverse, it could be a sect, a political party, one person or an entire group.