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Launched: October 5, 2009
Deep in the Msasani Penninsula on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Josh To's attention was arrested in the midst of distraction by an alley blossoming with art. The artist was Gregory Mchopa, and his art was born of the Maasai culture. An idea came to Josh as he stood absorbing the long elegant body lines and flowing red & yellow Shúkà: open-source altruism
The tenet: Given the opportunity, the world would easily sustain its artists.
The solution: A scalable application built on Google's App Engine that could provide a virtual venue for any artist living anywhere in the world, no matter how remote.
On the very auspicious humpday, 9/9/09, BRUTE LABS held an art exhibition and auction at Otis in San Francisco. The event was to commemorate the completion of an open-source website replete with: email, inventory management, web analytics, and checkout functionality.
Visit www.Mchopa.com to see the project in action.
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A document that details the background of Gregory Mchopa and the BRUTE LABS project that shared his art with the world.
The story of Gregory Mchopa.
• Yale Journal of International Affairs: Bringing Africa Online: Leveraging Technology to Enable Entrepreneurs
• Stanford Social Innovation Review: Open Source Altruism
| JOSHUA TO | PROJECT MANAGER |
| DANNY BOWMAN, JASON SHAFTON, SCOTT HARTLEY | CONTRIBUTORS |
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