I sent an initial email to the Shuttleworth Foundation to seek funds to improve SVG Import/Export for Open Office.org. This bug must be conquered. It is the most outstanding feature request and all attempts at slaying if have not succeeded I wish this work could get completed to get into version 2 of OO.o. If anyone is interested in helping me work on this, please email me. I’m seeking to get enough money to work with a small team on this to conquer and divide it.
Archive for June, 2005
Check out the stats for 2004 for the US Library of Congress. So many items in that library. Also, check out this great document about 2005-2008 British Library strategic planning.
I’ve posted an early draft for reviews and edits of my paper I’m peddling this summer, Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library. Several of the Open Clip Art Library developers are mentioned. I would really appreciate any edits or feedback. The file is in Open Office.org format right now. If you make edits, please note in red on the file and then email it to me please.
I’m kinda down on the paper a bit because there are not that many references, but I realize that most of this is narrative and also discussing why the project is the way it is. I wanted to make a really complete and long document about this, and then reformat it for other purposes. It has really helped me get perspective on the project and also come up with some strategies for branding. Please read…
Don’t forget the three N’s – the Need for more contributors, the Need for more content, and the Need for more networking between projects.
I’m officially not renewing my old domain name, protofunk.org. I’m now going 100% rejon.org. Therefore, make sure all y’all out there use rejon.org. Protofunk.org was such a rash domain name, whereas rejon is a great nickname given to me from a fellow Open Source developer, JonCruz.
There is much progress on the Intro to Clip Art writing and progress on getting planet inkscape up.
Ah man, there is an OCAL release this week.
I’m really digging this project, DELETE! The idea is to cover up all ads in urban spaces.
I’m not quite sure why the artists went with bright yellow for the cover up. I think the project would be better to have colors that merged the ads more into the background. I guess these guys are into the idea of censoring, but I think the idea of camouflaging is more interesting than yet another censor (YAC).
Not really into, but that’s okay: I followed this link to a group called Creative-Geeks that are appropriating imagery from Linux and Open Source to make traditional media prints and other representations. It is interesting that this is being made, but I wanted to let the OSS world in on some contemporary art and new media knowledge: Linux and Open Source is considered more contemporary art in and of itself rather than people making art about Linux. Does that make sense? My reasoning for getting into Open Source and Linux back in the day was that the artwork I found myself bent upon focused on developing systems and communties rather than byproducts, and hence, I got into OSS because I wanted to learn from the best on how to make systems and communities.
In many ways it is quite tongue-in-cheek that I got involved with art-type and creative applications which seem very much embracing some kind of past art tradition. Rather, I got involved with these projects (Inkscape and OCAL) because of the communities and novel collaboration strategies. Honestly, right now, I could plow into submitting Inkscape and/or OCAL to art festivals and competition and those projects would be displayed and discussed, but the actual byproducts, the images and clip art, would not be talked about so much. Maybe this would have been the case in the 80s when vector graphics first came out through imagery by April Greiman, but the art game is onto collaboration, large scale systems, and haphazard combine-a-words like transvergence now (However, much respect to RBE who is rockin out at SJSU and has some successful interviews in SWITCH this issue.).
Check out the Bayenalle. No more World of Warcraft…it is too addictive. After I have a group session with my friend Fox, I’m hitting delete on that game. It is maybe the most addictive game I’ve ever played. I can’t control my urge to play it in the little cracks of my free time.
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