Notes on LGRU Meet

LGRU Meet | Worm | 27/09/12

Mick Fuzz talk on Floss Manuals

Adam Hyde Federated Publishing

Free Manuals for Free Software
English / French / Finnish / Farsi / Dutch

Book Sprints

Greenhost

Free Press Unlimited

Collectively (de/re)fining what the book is about

Products increasingly are becoming services (McLuhan - 1966)

Booktype => booki

A Web page is a blog(a text mostly by Adam Hyde)

Craig Mod : Formless content

Website text reconfigured on different devices

Manuals to look at:

• How to Bypass Internet Security
• Basic Internet Security
• Tech Tools for Activism

Eric: Economies of the Commons

voodoo video

commons:

"The legal right of taking a profit in another's land in common with the owner or others" (Commons definition, Webster online dictionary)

From common land to digital commons

pacman copyright logo

Revenue Models:

• Advertisement
• Donations
• Public funding
• Sponsorship
• Crowd Funding - Goteo
• Distributed Micropayment System
• Open Access Publishing
• Hybrid Business Models

Most successful can think 6 months ahead in terms of funding (Wikipedia)

Kickstarter: vast majority of crowdfunded projects remain proprietary

Prelinger Archives

Florian: DIY Stencil Press

Extrapool - Nijmegen (NL) Offprint - Amsterdam (NL) Kotti-Shop - Berlin (DE)

DIY Stencil Press as open hardware movement

Discussion centered around openness in the production and distribution of both digital and paper books. What about consumption? Ebooks must be consumed on proprietary devices, how can we gain control of this? - OpenInkPot, linux distro for ereaders.

Manciunias - book that cannot be scanned

Redefine the book as an information object - Florian

It's the job of Libregraphics to make the division between digital and paper books as small as possible - Mick Fuzz

FLOSS projects falling into obsolescence during recession (reported in LWN) Is there an industry demand for such open source tools? "industry starts @ home!"

epub as potential production/distribution/consumption standard for FLOSS book design

Print Room

Parazine
Risograph

>Extrapool working direct comp - riso connection, generative graphics

Print Room Academy
Risograph used for church pamphlets

Mesh Print Club

Screen print studio, based in Rotterdam
Travelling screen print setup, WvWdW
65 members
Non-profit, volunteer organisation

lib genesis???

LGRU Meet | Worm | 28/09/12

From Stone to Spaceship

Medialab Prado typography workshop

Typography workshop - no tools (compass,ruler etc)
Manual version control: post-it note alphabet grid

Drawing => Digitisation (no scanners!)

Use of libre tools (inkscape, typography plugin, fontforge), linux virtual machine

Font on openfontlibrary

Aymeric Mansoux

Software exile

Richard Stallman - Xerox printer, denied access to source code of driver

Elsevier: Man in the middle attack!

Said - James Joyce exile

Linux vs GNU/Linux

code within linux kernel that does not follow any license, or the GNU license: linux kernel can now be considered as non-free software

GPLv3 - overly complex, unlikely to be adopted by large commercial projects

Idealism vs Pragmatism

displacement of ~/home

It is part of morality not to be at home at one's home - Adorno

Community

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft : Community vs Society.
How does this relate to open source "community" vs proprietary software?

abolition of filepaths - the iOS paradigm

Stallman - Google Docs OK!?!?!

KUNCI CULTURAL STUDIES CENTRE: A GLOSSARY OF ILLEGALITY

Pirate book center - making educational materials available for people who may not otherwise have access`

Newpaper articles cut and re-organised for a student library kiosk

New economies have emerged out of pirated content - Piracy is embedded in everyday life in Jakarta

Megamix militia!!! Remixing copyrighted materials

Free Libraries for Every Soul!!!

Libraries as "people's university" - digitalbookworld.com - american library open letter to publishers. Ebooks not being made available under the same terms, only able to be "lended" 27 times (arbitrary number apparently!).

Librarian:

• books
• catalog
• knowledge

Peer-to-peer public library - many people can become librarians

http://kiberkommunist.posterous.com/41479850 => Let's Share Books!!! :D :D :D

"Metadata is where the control and power lies"

Calibre - ebook cataloging software, automatically renames files and finds metadata

Python script => Let's Share Books!!! (talkr.im)

http://hugo.blotius.snipdom.net

library genesis - libgen.info

bookmagnet

Using amazon server to forward users to the free books library