To open the source code is one of the most significant processes in our contemporary technological landscape -the main reference is the free software culture or so called open source culture-. Opening the code means to share and to make something free. In the Open(ing) Source project what matters is to open, to share, some genetic/migratory information of the first participants of Open(ing) Source.
What we are sharing are the results of our participation in the Genographic Project -a large scale project made by National Geographic Society and IBM - the project is about genetics and the history of human migration-. The results -DNA tests- of our participation in Genographic Project are related with our "genetic markers" and how they can describe our journey as humans in this planet. We have data of thousands of years ago of our history - but what does it mean? what can we do with that information?
The explanation of the results of the test, a world map, one diploma of participation in Genographic Project as well as some personal interpretations of those documents have been packaged in a traveler box, therefore there are three boxes (as many initial participants in Open(ing) Source ). The traveler boxes are visiting different places in the world and some friends -who are receiving them by (real) mail- are doing free interpretations of that information and they are also contributing with some personal information and reflections relative to human history, genetic information, genetic art, personal history and so on. The new information is included in the box and then the box is sent again to another friend in another part of the world.
All the material of Open(ing) Source is traveling in three boxes from one place to another, if anyfriend gets the box then he/she is able to read and to see what others have done as interventions or interpretations about the results of the DNA test. Their new interpretations (experimental maps, objects, diaries, demostrations, texts, critics, sonifications, visualizations, etc) are included in the boxes.