dear list(s)
given the current debates on each of these lists, i thought this link might
be of interest.
regards
johnny
(apologies for cross postings)

In a message dated 17/05/04 12:31:22 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

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Freestyle - FLOSS In Design

A seminar on Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Design


Date: Wednesday 19 May 2004

Time: 10.30-17.00 hours

Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam

Admission: 5 euro, 2.50 euro concessions

Language: English


Over the last few years 'Free Libre and Open Source Software' FLOSS, a form
of collaborative software development has proven itself as a driving force of
digital networks, especially the internet. Now this approach is beginning to
open up new approaches in design and visual culture. This seminar will present
clear information on this software and how it both challenges and provides new
opportunities for media design.


Art and design work using computers can often get stuck in the use of the
same old tools. One thing that FLOSS does is to allow for new ideas to become
software on a much faster timescale and with less reliance on conforming to a
'mass' market. Learning design increasingly means learning to use the
applications of a smaller and smaller amount of companies. FLOSS offers one possibility
for escaping such a trap.


At the same time FLOSS itself could do with a good dose of design. Born as it
is through the energy and imagination of software developers, FLOSS can in
some cases fall behind in meeting the needs of users who aren't also
programmers. On the one hand this creates an important demand for greater technical
literacy amongst users, but it also means that interfaces to, for instance,
cultural practices, need creating.


The morning session will present an introduction to FLOSS software in design.
The emphasis is on a realistic survey of the possibilities this way of
working is opening up.


The afternoon will present a number of case studies. Artists and designers
using FLOSS software will show and talk about the tools they work with, the
culture of use of the software. Software developers will present their projects
and open them up to questions and debate.


Confirmed speakers:

Kit Blake - Silva, content management system, Rotterdam; http://www.infrae.com


Erik Dooper - Open Source Software Lab, Amsterdam, will demo Scribus,
SodiPodi and Inkscape.

http://www.ossl.org


Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - Economist and editor of FirstMonday, Maastricht;

http://orbiten.org/rishab.html


Graham Harwood - artist, London, speaking about The GIMP
http://www.scotoma.org


Jaromil - GNU/Linux developer, South Italy, currently resident at Montevideo,
Amsterdam; Dynebolic,

http://www.dyne.org


Antoine van de Ven - V2_Lab, Rotterdam, presents V2_Jam, research on
combining and integrating open source media software, http://lab.v2.nl


Willi LeMaitre & Eric Rosenzweig - PlayList, software tools for collaborative
video work,

http://www.w----e.net


Roger Teeuwen - Graphic Designer, Rotterdam


Other speakers are to be confirmed.


This seminar is jointly held by:


Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, the institute for postgraduate
studies and research of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl

Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam http://www.hva.nl

V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media http://www.v2.nl


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