Incubate festival gives its visitors the chance to take part in the program itself. During Open Source Arts visitors can show their own art, make their own radio program, show their own films and perform their own choreographies. Starting today, anyone can hand in material for the radio station, which will then be broadcasted during the festival between 11 and 18 September 2011.

For the first time, Incubate gives its visitors the opportunity to stand in the shoes of the promoters and the curators. Beside the broad program with many cutting-edge artists that Incubate offers, the public can express its own art form and add it to the festival in the Open Source Arts program. This is part of the discussion what the visitor should or could contribute to a cultural event. Incubate previously opened up its business plan to the public on the Internet,

and let the visitors choose what they wanted to pay for a conference on piracy.

The Incubate Open Source program consists of the following events:

- Open source expo
- Open source radio
- Open source film program
- ‘Space that must be filled’ (dance)

Check out the events page on

our website for more info and how you can participate in these open source projects.

Here’s a great article you might be interested in reading. It’s about the development the Web and New Media strategy for the Smithsonian Museums. The strategy was set up in co-creation with a large part of the community and in an open source environment on

a wiki. The Smithsonian also used Twitter and YouTube, organised a 2.0 conference (Keynote speakers were Bran Ferren of Applied Minds, Inc.; author Clay Shirky; George Oates, founder of the Flickr Commons; and Chris Anderson, author and Editor-in-Chief of Wired) and workshops.

The article gives a good runthrough on the importance of a good (online) strategy, and the benefits of the open process is was created in. The article can be read here. The whole text is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives. The wiki where the online strategy was formulated can be found here on wikispaces.

“Good strategy helps you prioritize tactical decision making. Today, a teenage intern can harness more technology and reach a

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larger audience with free cloud-based applications and a little moxie than an army of Unix system administrators could ten years ago. It’s easier to do stuff now, and that makes choosing what you do, and what you don’t do, even more important. Organizations without good strategies tend to pursue disconnected opportunities – short-term successes  –  that give the illusion of progress, but which aren’t aligned along a strategic path and don’t add up to much in the long run. This is like a junk food diet that feels satisfying at the time but leaves you hungry 30 minutes later and gives you long-term health problems.”