I'm looking forward to the stories that may be unfolding these days here at SVG Open.
[openbook booknumber="/b/OL16960548M"] Here are some quotes from chapter 1 of "Standards and their Stories", edited by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star. Among other things, this introductory chapter makes a point for …
"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 …
On our (virtual) bookshelves:
Download the list as .csv file: OSP-library_030810
The OSP-library is a modest pile of books that we think is relevant to our practice. Some we have read and others we should. We'll keep adding titles; suggestions welcome!
After testing several ways to catalogue the collection, we …
In the mail today:
[portfolio_slideshow]
From Taipei (Taiwan): Freesouls. Captured and
released. Joi Ito, 2008
From Weimar (Germany): Lorem Ipsum: Zentralorgan der Freien Klassen
Kommunikation. 2010
Thank you Christopher + Martin :-)
This interview may be a good read. It deals with some aspects of the "current state" (June 2010) of SVG implementations.
It's got a really sweet format. It's a two-sided interview, meaning that Doug Scheppers and Patrick Dengler interview each other. It's not often that I come across interviews that …
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 …
A couple of days ago I was looking at the OSP blog trackback list and discovered the Fork/Memo blog. It documents the work of Lafkon studio. Lafkon is Christoph Haag and Benjamin Stephan -- two graphic designers working with unconventional tools for graphic design, including Latex and shell scripts among …
We're happy to launch our foundry, today. Have a look
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry
There's no excuse to not write more this summer!
They've been made using free tools: FontForge, Inkscape...
They're released under free licenses.
Some are collaborative works.
Some will be in development.
Little materials light peculiar …
We're busy closing the books on LGM 2010 and soon deciding where to go for LGM 2011 (Brasil? Montreal? Vietnam? Follow the discussion at: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create) so we almost did not notice that it's only a very little stretch to our initial goal of raising …
