As I was thinking about creating my “design journal”, I came across a big challenge: I will be exposing my ideas to the whole internet. It was more of a fear that even before I could create something tangible out of my own ideas, someone might run away and made something out of it already.

But somewhere along the way I’ve come to accept that it is better to have my ideas journaled than just being kept in a notebook somewhere. Then I thought hey what about: “open source idea generation” where people can contribute to my ideas and create something worthwhile.

Originally, I wanted it to be a tagline to this blog.. but then I realized that there is an organization already doing this. It’s called Creative Commons and its all about sharing creative ideas like it was open-source software. So I licenesed the contents of this site under the “Attribute and Share Alike 2.5” Here is what it means:

You are free:
to Share — to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
to Remix — to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:
Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.

For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

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