Good Reading

From Electron Club, Glasgow

This is a collection of links and references to good reading matter related to Electron Club activities.

Feel free to add your own suggestions and categories.

Free Open Source Software

The Free Software Definition

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html

FOSS A General Introduction

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_A_General_Introduction

FLOSS Concept Booklet

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FLOSS_Concept_Booklet

FLOSS handbook

http://www.sarai.net/floss_book.pdf

A downloadable guide summarising the key ideas behind FLOSS.

How To Become A Hacker

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Eric Raymond's classic text

Not-For-Profit Groups and Ethical Computing

The Revenge of Lowtech: Autolabs, Telecentros and Tactical Media in Sao Paulo

http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/04-crisis-media/55ricardo.pdf

Article by Ricardo Rosas on Brazilian hacklabs, one of the inspirations behind the Electron Club.

What not-for-profit organizations need to know about free software

http://www.communitybandwidth.ca/articles/free_software

A Better Upgrade, Not a Faster Throw-Away

http://www.ciber-runa.net/guide/BetterUpgrade--ActivistGuide.html

Hardware Hacking and Circuit Bending

Reed Ghazala's Art of Circuit Bending

http://www.anti-theory.com/soundart/circuitbend/

The classic text by one of the pioneers of circuit bending.