LGRU December 2012

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PLO prototype code from Piksels & Lines seminar
by Jon Nordby 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

Hi all, Brendan and I are starting the Piksels & Lines residency now, and we would like to have as much as possible of the code that was created during the LGRU meeting in Bergen in June. This is both for documentation purposes and for some inspiration/base for the further work during the residency. So please send what you have of what you developed. Tarballs, patches, link to a git repository: Anything goes. We are currently missing the code for Scribus (Pierre), Underweb (August), Sketchspace (Egil), the OpenFramework based visualizations (Chris) and the PureData soundscape generation (Jaime). For those that want to start following the residency, we have our repositories set up at: https://github.com/piksels-and-lines-orchestra -- Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com

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For associates: Finalizing LGRU-commissions
by Femke Snelting 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Dear LGRU-associates, This mail is about finalizing the commissioned work that has been developed in the context of LGRU. As you know, commissions should be administratively wrapped up by the end of this year. If you have any questions about this, please contact Peter: peter(a)constantvzw.org We have decided to postpone the publication of sources, documentation and descriptions of the LGRU-commissions to *21 February 2013*. A week later, on Thursday *28 February 2013*, we'd like each organisation to be present with at least 1 person from 10:00 to 13:00 at #LGRU on irc.freenode.net to discuss their research. We will publish this review afterwards. In order for all of us to be able to look at each other's work beforehand, and to prepare questions about the projects, please create a blogpost (one per commission) on http://lgru.net by 21 February latest, containing: - One image representing the project - A short description of the project (200-500 words) - A link to sources (software, images, materials) - A link to documentation (explanatory video, long project description, manual, website) - A clarification of the license under which the project falls This spring, Medialab Prado is hosting the Future Tools event, which starts with the Libre Graphics meeting from 10-13 April and is followed by Interactivos?: Tools for a Read-Write World, 15-27 April. For the Libre Graphics meeting, you are welcome to propose a presentation: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2013/?page_id=153 A committee representing the LGM community will be responsible for making the selection (Deadline: 15 February). For Interactivos?13: Tools for a Read-Write World, you are welcome to propose a project http://medialab-prado.es/article/ilgru_call_projects (Deadline: 15 January). You can also sign up as collaborator. End May 2013 (dates still to be confirmed) our last LGRU-meeting will take place in Porto. It will be our last opportunity to present the results of the 2-year project (including commissions) to LGRU-members, invited guests and an interested public. best, Femke LGRU-commissions: * Constant - Co-position prototype and LGRU-reader * Medialab Prado - Libre Graphics Workstation * Piksel - Piksels and lines Orchestra * WORM - Partsba.se platform and Snijlab lasercutter documentation

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Fwd: [80c] web design
by Femke Snelting 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [80c] web design Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:49:08 +0100 From: geoffroy <gef(a)ponnuki.net> To: eightycolumn(a)multiplace.org Hi there, I am writing an article about open source creativity and how web design is on that fold between coding and visual design. It was supposed to be about tooling and how to setup a complete web design platform with today's tools on debian (from terminator to zsh to vim to sass compass yeoman to coffeescript and node.js etc...) but there is something that is itching in my mind and I cannot put my finger on it, so that might seems unclear at first. I am writing this to this list because it comes from a lot of reflection about floss and art, creativity, and my personal discovery about how open source remove a lot of constraint on creativity. It seems that web design with css3, html5 and javascript as become this medium (media) that is easily crafted with only open source tools. Not only that, but it's also one of the main trend right now. As if there was a resurgence of open source in the corporate world somehow. As if the adobe suite for graphic design and web design and flash took over the whole digital creation world for many years now (it was definitly uncool to make web page in vim with javascript 5 years ago) and now there is a major shift. Apple, Adobe, Mozilla and Google are big time bidding on javascript, html and css to create a better web but also a more open place, where web 'application' are becoming more like native application, and the tools to create that better web is not dreamweaver or some bit proprietary software, it's your daily code editor. And what you create will be publishable on all platform, with 3d, audio, video and all medium... I am just wondering if I am getting excited for no reason here ( i often do that ) or if this is business as usual or other people are seeing that shift in open source / creativity and publication? I am still unsure what I am getting excited about though :( It feels like the web is maturing and is taking over ~ and it's too big to be contain by one company or another. This also invite the idea that OS will slowly also become irrelevant (like why do I need a freaking apple on the top left corner of my screen?) _______________________________________________ eightycolumn mailing list eightycolumn(a)multiplace.org http://multiplace.org/mailman/listinfo/eightycolumn

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Co-position crew looking for news from the Piksels and Orchestra
by Femke Snelting 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Hello Jon, Brendan, Piksel, We're here in Brussels experimenting with the Graphical Shell prototype, and much of our ideas come back to messaging, non-linear workflows etc -- we imagine you have encountered some of this in your work on the PLO? So: How did it go? Any video of the performance? Images?? We're super-curious after seeing this https://raw.github.com/piksels-and-lines-orchestra/plo/eb8d4dc0fb3f05de64b6… Pierre H, Pierre M, Colm, Gijs, Femke

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css as layout engine
by Brendan Howell 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

This is conceptually not as exciting as the graphical shell stuff but I was talking to Adam Hyde last week and he told me that the Booktype / FLOSS Manuals / Booki crew have been cooking up some cool stuff that can render HTML + CSS to proper page layouts in the browser (which can then export precision PDFs): https://github.com/sourcefabric/BookJS You will need a bleeding edge version of Chromium (23+): https://launchpad.net/~a-v-shkop/+archive/chromium-dev but Mozilla & co are supposed to support CSS page extentions in the next few months. Some ports of LaTeX based typesetting features, like hyphenation and justification, are in the works. I don't love HTML but this might be a nice setup for quick-n-dirty layout systems especially when combined with web based authoring tools like SketchSpace, Aloha-editor, etc. -b -- http://wintermute.org/brendan

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Next LGRU Meeting in Madrid. LGM and Interactivos? Workshop
by monica＠medialab-prado.es 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hello all, As you already know, the next LGRU meeting will take place in Madrid coinciding with Libre Graphics Meeting and just before Interactivos?'13 Tools for a read-write world. The dates: LGRU and LG Meeting. April from 10 to 13 Interactivos? workshop April from 15 to 27. As part of LGRU project travel expenses and accommodation are covered by EU project from April 10 to 13. please remember that each partners have 2 people travelling and 1 person in case associated partners. If you want to be part of Interactivos? workshop (from April 15-27) is important to know that there is not LGRU budget. In this case Medialab-Prado will pay travel and accomodation for those whose projects are selected through the open call. Then, there is a reservation of 30 places at a Youth Hostel (shared rooms) for people that want to participate in the workshop as collaborators. Call for projects: http://medialab-prado.es/article/ilgru_call_projects The call for collaborators will be open from February 5 until April. In order to manage all the LGRU travels, please send me an email with the info about the travels from your organization. Best Mónica

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Next LGRU Meeting in Madrid. LGM and Interactivos? Workshop
by monica＠medialab-prado.es 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hello all, As you already know, the next LGRU meeting will take in Madrid coinciding with Libre Graphics Meeting and just before Interactivos?'13 Tools for a read-write world. The dates: LGRU and LG Meeting. April from 10 to 13 Interactivos? workshop April from 15 to 27. As part of LGRU project travel expenses and accommodation are covered by EU project from April 10 to 13. please remember that each partners have 2 people travelling and 1 person in case associated partners. If you want to be part of Interactivos? workshop (from April 15-27) is important to know that there is not LGRU budget. In this case Medialab-Prado will pay travel and accomodation for those whose projects are selected through the open call. Then, there is a reservation of 30 places at a Youth Hostel (shared rooms) for people that want to participate in the workshop as collaborators. Call for projects: http://medialab-prado.es/article/ilgru_call_projects In order to manage all the LGRU travels and accomodation, please send me an email with the info about the travels from your organization. Best Mónica

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