[FM Discuss] collaborative futures Book Sprint

Mon Jan 18 05:19:19 PST 2010

hiya,

i'd like to be able to join in on the workshop remotely, but I'm a
little confused about what channels your using; URL, IRC

pointers appreciated

ciao

simone :-)


On 17/01/2010 18:38, adam hyde wrote:
> so...tomorrow is our first book sprint trying to produce a more
> 'speculative narrative' than usual...most sprints we have had so far,
> with the possible exception of the GSoC Mentoring Guide have been about
> procedural documentation...coming up this week we really take the plunge
> into new book sprint space...
> 
> whats the title? Easy, its called 'Collaborative Futures'. Whats it
> about? No idea...ask me tomorrow (Monday) at the end of the day, I hope
> to know then...we start tomorrow 12oo Berlin time with workshopping the
> content, target audience, scope, index...we will, unlike previous
> sprints, spend all day doing this....then we write....soooooooooo....be
> prepared! it would be great to have remote participation, not only
> because this is going to be quite a challenge, but also because we will
> be using Booki for the first time in a Book Sprint....
> 
> this sprint is part of the Transmediale festival
> (www.transmediale.de)...for more info keep an eye on the front page of
> booki.cc and also watch this list...
> 
> heres some info on the onsite participants:
> 
> 
> 
> Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist from
> Tel-Aviv, based in NY. His work explores media in public space and the
> public space in media. In his creative research he focuses on the
> perception of territory and borders and the way they are shaped through
> politics, culture, networks and the World Wide Web. He is the co-founder
> of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; ShiftSpace.org – an open source
> layer above any website; YouAreNotHere.org – a dislocative tourism
> agency; Kriegspiel – a computer game based on Guy Debord’s Game of War;
> and the Tel Aviv node of the Upgrade international network. Mushon is an
> honorary resident at Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York.
> He teaches new media research at NYU and open source design at Parsons
> the New School of Design.
> 
> Mike Linksvayer is Vice President at Creative Commons, where he started
> as CTO in 2003. Previously he co-founded Bitzi, an early open data/open
> content/mass collaboration service, and worked as a web developer and
> software engineer. In 1993 he published one of the first interviews with
> Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux. He is a co-founder and currently
> active in Autonomo.us, which investigates and works to further the role
> of free software, culture, and data in an era of software-as-a-service
> and cloud computing. His chapter on "Free Culture in Relation to
> Software Freedom" was published in FREE BEER, a book written by speakers
> at FSCONS 2008. Linksvayer holds a degree from the University of
> Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in economics, a field which continues to
> strongly inform his approach. He lives in Oakland, California.
> 
> Michael Mandiberg is known for selling all of his possessions online on
> Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on
> AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the
> real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com. His
> current projects include the co-authored groundbreaking Creative Commons
> licensed textbook Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design that
> teaches Bauhaus visual principles through design software,
> HowMuchItCosts.us, a car direction site that incorporates the financial
> and carbon cost of driving, and Bright Bike, a retro-reflective bicycle
> treehugger.com praised as “obnoxiously bright.” He is a Senior Fellow at
> Eyebeam, and an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten
> Island/CUNY. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. His
> work lives at Mandiberg.com.
> 
> Aleksandar Erkalovic is reknown internationally in the new media arts
> and activist circles for the software he has developed. He used to work
> in Multimedia institute in Croatia, where he was the lead developer of a
> popular NGO web publishing system (TamTam), Aleksander has a broad
> spectrum of programming experience having worked on many projects from
> multiplayer games, library software, financial applications, artistic
> projects, web site analysis applications, and building systems for
> managing domain registration. Aleksander was for a long time the sole
> programmer for FLOSS Manuals and is now leading the development
> (together with Adam Hyde and Douglas Bagnall) of a new GPL publishing
> platform called 'booki'. Aleksanders new media artistic collaborations,
> as well as being extensively exhibited internationally, have won many
> awards. Aleksander also organises creative and educative workshops
> directed to young people, experts, and amateurs that are interested in
> the software he has developed and free software in general. He is
> currently also employed by Informix in Zagreb, Croatia.
> 
> Marta Peirano writes about culture, science and technology for the
> Spanish media, encompassing newspapers, online journals and printed
> magazines. She is a long term contributor and founder of the online
> media arts journal Elástico and is the author of La Petite Claudine, a
> widely read blog in the Spanish language about art, literature, free
> culture, pornography (and everything in between). In 2003 and 2004 she
> directed the Copyfight Festivals in Spain (CCCB, Santa Mónica) with her
> collective Elástico, a symposium and exhibition that investigated
> alternative models of intellectual property. Marta has given numerous
> lectures and workshops on free culture, digital publishing tools and
> journalism at festivals and universities. She recently published El
> Rival de Prometeo, a book about Automatas and the engineering of the
> Enlightenment. She currently lives in Berlin and is working on a second
> book.
> 
> Alan Toner; born in Dublin, studied law in Trinity College Dublin and
> NYU Law School, where he was later a fellow in the Information Law
> Institute and the Engelberg Center on Law and Innovation. His researched
> is focused on the  countervailing impact of peer processes and
> information enclosure on cultural production and social life. In 2003 he
> worked on the grassroots campaign We Seize! challenging the UN World
> Summit on the Information Society, and has participated extensively in
> grassroots media and information freedom movements. Since 2006 he has
> also worked in documentary film, including co-writing and co-producing
> Steal This Film 2 (2007). In 2008 he co-created the archival site
> http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/ Currently writing a book on the
> history of economic and technological control in the film industry.
> Sometimes found near Alexanderplatz,  
> and at http://knowfuture.wordpress.com.
> 
> Adam Hyde was for many years a digital artist primarily exploring
> digital-analog hybrid broadcast systems. These projects included The
> Frequency Clock, Polar Radio, Radio-Astronomy, net.congestion, re:mote,
> Free Radio Linux, Wifio, Paper Cup Telephone Network, Mobicasting,
> Silent TV and others. Many of these projects have won awards and have
> been extensively exhibited internationally. Since returning from a
> residency in Antartica in 2007 Adam founded FLOSS Manuals and has been
> focused on increasing the quantity and quality of free documentation
> about free software through FLOSS Manuals, exploring emerging
> methodologies for collaborative book production (Book Sprints), and
> developing a new type of collaborative authoring and publishing platform
> (Booki). Adam has facilitated over 16 Book Sprints, is also the
> co-founder (with Eric Kluitenberg) of the forthcoming Electrosmog
> Festival for Sustainable Immobility and facilitator of the forthcoming
> Artic Perspectives technology cahier.
> 
> 
> 

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