[Nettime-nl] Freestyle - FLOSS In Design

[matthew fuller <fuller@xs4all.nl>]

Freestyle - FLOSS In Design

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

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.

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. DTP and vector graphics applications. 
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, image 
manipulation software;
http://www.scotoma.org/

Jaromil - GNU/Linux developer, South Italy, currently resident at 
Montevideo, Amsterdam; Dynebolic,
http://www.dyne.org/

Willi LeMaitre & Eric Rosenzweig  - PlayList, software tools for 
collaborative video work;
http://www.w----e.net

Roger Teeuwen - Graphic Designer, Rotterdam

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

Wednesday, May 19  |  10.30 - 17.00hrs  |  V2 Eendrachtstraat 10  |  Rotterdam
Fee for the day:  5euro,  2.50euro concessions
Advance Reservations: Eliane Roest (V2_), (010) 206 72 72, eliane at v2.nl

This seminar is jointly held by:
Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/

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

V2_Organisation, Institute for the Unstable Media http://www.v2.nl/

STREAM: This seminar will be streamed via http://www.v2.nl/live/
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