Packt-publishing, big on books about Open Source, now wants us to 'Vote for our favorite Open Source Graphics Software to win'. It is a clever campaign I guess: data about popular applications should be useful in deciding what books will sell. Packt gives away one proprietary e-reader to a random …
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OSP-summit
Last Thursday and Friday OSP gathered in Heure-en-Famenne to discuss future plans and current projects. After almost 5 years of work we wanted to take a bit of time to look back and forward. We made several resolutions and decisions. Some will be already visible in ~~the coming weeks~~ now …
This Fall
This fall @ OSP:
- Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs Tournée française (Paris, Valence, Nancy, Besançon et Amiens 30/09/2010 → 30/01/2011)
- Teaching Images numériques – Open source – Chaîne (typo)-graphique ouverte at ERG
- Submitted proposal to the The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) to fund a Libre Graphics Research …
One nouveau flyer voor Constant vzw/asbl
Call for proposals: Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1
Libre Graphics Magazine is seeking submissions for its first numbered issue, which loosely follows the theme First Encounters/Taking Flight. Submissions can range from the written, to the visual, to the interactive. If it can be flattened and printed, it could appear in our print edition. If it moves or …
LGM 2011: date + place confirmed
The sixth edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting will take place from 10-13 May 2011 in Montreal, Canada. The local team builds on experience of having organised two earlier meetings in the same city, plus this years' LGM will make a special effort to connect to the …
Standards and their Stories
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 …
The Library
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
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. 2010Thank you Christopher + Martin :-)
Interleaved formats
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 …
