Hola a todos, he visto esto en la red y quería compartirlo.
Salvatore Laconesi es un profesor universitario italiano que recientemente ha descubierto que tiene un cáncer en el cerebro. Salvatore es amante del software libre, y el fundador de
http://www.artisopensource.net. La verdad es que el tipo ha tenido una idea cojonuda. Se ve que nada le detiene en su lucha por transmitir las bondades del software libre, y se las ha apañado para convertir sus datos médicos (que originalmente se encontraban en formatos privativos) a formatos libres, y ha decidido compartirlos con la comunidad.
En su página web,
http://www.artisopensource.net/cure/ Salvatore alienta a todo tipo de personas, diseñadores, artistas, programadores, músicos, escritores, lo que sea, a utilizar libremente sus datos médicos para crear poemas, textos, videojuegos, obras artísticas, investigaciones, o por qué no, una cura para él.
Yo personalmente voy a dedicarle un rato a ver que puedo hacer con esa información que él, libremente, nos ofrece. Me parece una forma cojonuda de gastar el tiempo libre.
Qué, ¿Os animáis?
Os dejo el comunicado íntegro de Salvatore.
Salvatore Laconesi escribió:
Rome, September 10th 2012
I have a brain cancer.
Yesterday I went to get my digital medical records: I have to show them to many doctors.
Sadly they were in a closed, proprietary format and, thus, I could not open them using my computer, or send them in this format to all the people who could have saved my life.
I cracked them.
I opened them and converted the contents into open formats, so that I could share them with everyone.
Just today I have been able to share the data about my health condition (about my brain cancer) with 3 doctors.
2 of them already replied.
I have been able to do it because the data used open, accessible formats: they have been able to open the files using their computers, their tablets. They have been able to reply from home, on sunday.
I will progressively publish all the replies I will receive, using open formats, so that anyone with my same disease will be able to benefit from the solutions I will find.
This is a CURE. This is my OPEN SOURCE CURE.
This is an open invitation to take part in the CURE.
CURE, in different cultures, means different things.
There are cures for the body, for spirit, for communication.
Grab the information about my disease, if you want, and give me a CURE: create a video, an artwork, a map, a text, a poem, a game, or try to find a solution for my health problem.
Artists, designers, hackers, scientists, doctors, photographers, videomakers, musicians, writers. Anyone can give me a CURE.
Create your CURE using the content which you find in the DATI/DATA section here on this site, and send it to info@artisopensource.net.
All CURES will be displayed here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESWiBYdiN0&feature=player_embedded 
