Open Views is an exploration of open-source and free-culture movements around the world, stretching beyond the limits of software. The show's purpose is to provide a view into the rich world of collaborative development, open ideas, independent media, and new business models. This is a revolutionary time, with tools to aid the world, and collaboration possible from every corner of the globe. Open Views talks to the people at the front lines of this renaissance.

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The guests who have appeared on Open Views thus far are:

• Oct 3, 2006: James Moore, station manager of KRUU-LP and Roland Wells, founder of KRUU-LP
• Oct 10, 2006: Prayas Abhinav, Creative Commons India
• Oct 17, 2006: Mike Linksvayer , CTO CreativeCommons.org
• Oct 24, 2006: Janet Hope , Australian National University, Open Source Biotechnology Project
• Oct 31, 2006: Siva Vaidhyanathan , author of Copyrights and Copywrongs, Anarchist in the Library, and blogger at sivacracy.net
• Nov 7, 2006: Abhas Abhinav, founder of deeproot.in, a Linux-solutions company located in Bangalore, India
• Nov 14, 2006: Fred von Lohmann, EFF's lead IP lawyer, at Cory Doctorow's Fulbright Chair Speaker Series, USC Center for Public Diplomacy
• Nov 21, 2006: Richard Jefferson, creator of the Biological Open Source license, and founder of Cambia , a biosciences foundation in Australia
• Nov 28, 2006: Shannon Coulter: A&R Rep for Magnatune.com
• Dec 5, 2006: Mark Patterson and Ginny Barbour, of the Public Library of Science
• Dec 12, 2006: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project, CEO of Canonical, and head of the Shuttleworth Foundation
• Dec 19, 2006: Richard Poynder, author of the Basement Interviews, and blogger at poynder.blogspot.com
• Jan 2, 2007: Wayan Vota, Director of IESC-Geekcorps (geekcorps.org)
• Jan 9, 2007: John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, speak at Cory Doctorow's Fulbright Chair Speaker Series at USC's Center for Public Diplomacy
• Jan 16, 2007: Dr. Kembrew McLeod , Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, Dept. of Communications Studies, and author of Freedom of Expression
• Jan 23, 2007: Dr. John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons, a Creative Commons project
• Jan 30, 2007: Jennifer Papin-Ramcharan , Technical Librarian at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus
• Feb 6, 2007: Ethan Zuckerman, founder of GeekCorps, and GlobalVoices.com
• Feb 13, 2007: Melissa Hagemann, Program Manager, Information Program @ Open Society Institute
• Feb 20, 2007: Michel Bauwens, Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives
• Feb 27, 2007: Cory Doctorow, Copyright Reform Activist, Sci-fi Author
• Mar 6, 2007: Laurent Kratz, CEO of Jamendo.com
• Mar 20, 2007: Professor Shishir Jha, Creative Commons India
• March 27, 2007: Sunil Abraham, CEO of Mahiti.org, on the board of the International Open Source Network (IOSN) and fellow of Ashoka.org and Sarai.net
• April 3, 2007: Professor Richard Baraniuk, creator of Connexions (cnx.org)
• Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum
• Wendy Seltzer, OpenLaw, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
• May 8, 2007: Heather Graham, Burning Man
• May 15, 2007: Dr. Ronaldo Lemos, Creative Commons Brazil
• May 22, 2007: Dr. David Lipman, PubMed Central, NIH
• June 5, 2007: Doc Searls, Senior Editor, Linux Journal, author of The Cluetrain Manifesto
• June 12, 2007: Dean Jansen, DemocracyPlayer Internet TV Platform
• June 19, 2007: (repeat) Ronaldo Lemos, CC-Brazil
• June 26, 2007: Bill Witherspoon, The Skyfactory - Open Book Management
• Ethan Zuckerman, Global Voices Online
• Mike Linksvayer, Vice President of Creative Commons
• Bill Allison, Greg Elin from Sunlight Foundation - Citizen Journalism and governance
• Vera Franz, Open Society Institute's IP Program
• John Sullivan, Free Software Foundation
• Heather Ford, iCommons
• Joichi Ito, Chairman of Creative Commons and Six Apart Japan
• Peter Suber, SPARC and Open Access
• Matthew Cockerill, BioMedCentral.com
• Matthew Todd, Ginger Taylor, The Synaptic Leap