Open Source heroes and heroines swimsuit calendar 2013; the sexiest/only collection of free software, open hardware and free culture icons ... in Speedos. Illustration Judith Carnaby; concept/production Sam Muirhead. www.yearofopensource.net [2013]

2013 calendar containing illustrations of "culture icons" in action, wearing swimming costumes:

Miss January - Mitchell Baker (spokesperson and chief lizard wrangler at Mozilla)

Mr February - Yochai Benkler, author of "The wealth of networks" & "The penguin and the Leviathan"

Mr March - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web

Mr April - Adrian Bowyer, inventor of the Reprap self-replicating 3D printer

Miss May - Limor Fried, aka lady Ada - founder of Adafruit Industries

Mr June - Marcin Jakubowski - physicist, farmer and founder of open source ecology

Mr July - Lawrence Lessig - founder of Creative Commons, initiator of the free Culture Movement

Mr August - Nicholas Negroponte - founder of the One Laptop Per Child Project and MIT Media Lab

Mr September - Eric S Raymond - author of "The cathedral and the bazaar" and "The new hacker's dictionary"

Mr October - Richard stallman - writer of the Gnu General Public License & founder of the Free Software Foundation

Mr November - Linus Torvalds - creator and coordinator of the Linux Kernel

Miss, Master, mrs, Mr and Ms December - the free / libre / open community

The calendar was printed in Germany, but the concept designer and the artist are both New Zealanders. Year of Open Source ran from August 1st 2012-August 1st 2013.

Quantity: 1 album(s).

Physical Description: Offset prints on pages of spiral-bound calendar 425 x 297 mm.

Provenance: Donated by Mark Crookston, Wellington, in 2016.