At FLOSS-weekly you can find a collection of 130+ longer interviews with Free Software developers, including some involved in our favourite projects:
#11: Python (Guido van Rossum: "If you give the same task to different programmers, they'll come up with different solutions. When programmer B at some point has to …
"If everything is both neutral and imbued with values at the same time, how can we separate instrumentality from ideology? This is essentially what I take the distinction between Free and Open to be about. Free is an ideological standpoint, the idea that users of software should have the right …
Yesterday Constant met with Evan
Roth to discuss gestures and
standards, confessions and
F/LOSS,
archiving and collaboration.
More soon.
Following
a trackback, Alexandre discovered the work of Lafkon studio a few days
ago. Than, through Antonio Roberts' comment on this same post, I find
out about his work with animated fontfiles. Antonio writes:
"Font files are files that attribute a style to the otherwise plain text that we see …
3 days, 327 kilometers, 6 liters of Cube Cola
Libre and 54 commits later
...
Please meet NANCY (a
new OSP-software project), download the Dingbat Liberation font
(DLFo) and much more
at:
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy
Re-thinking Miscellaneous Symbols: Flêche grasse à pointe arondie vers
la droite?
Taking a fragment …
"Collaboration can be so strong it forces hard boundaries. The
boundaries can intentionally or unintentionally exclude the possibility
to extend the collaboration. Potentially conflict can also occur at
these borders"
For this years' Transmediale Festival, the F/LOSS Manuals project took up the challenge to write, edit and publish a …
In the train back from Stuttgart, I read Tools for Conviviality, a pamphlet by social philosopher Ivan Ilich (1973). A 'convivial society', he argues, is a society in which everyone can act autonomously, and this can be achieved through the design and use of 'convivial tools':
People feel joy, as …
Alessandro Ludivico proudly presents the latest issue of
Neural with OSP-designed ad for By Data We
Mean
At a conference in Amsterdam, the Ippolita collective proposes us to build (and use?) convivial tools, a method for users that 'neither want to rule nor to be ruled by the Society of …
Yi and Femke consider cooking heartless vegan food from now
on
We're correcting the second edition of the Puerto Cookbook (first edition sold out!) and stumble over a trivial but frustrating small bug in Scribus. Maybe too long to explain here (you're welcome to read our bug report), but it …
The transformer (Marie Neurath) at work
Today a long awaited booklet arrived in the post: The transformer, principles of making Isotype charts written by Robin Kinross & Marie Neurath. It is inspiring in its modest but precise description of unorthodox working methods developed by philosopher, sociologist, and economist Otto Neurath and …
