rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

Interesting article about how to bunk the Chinese Censorship System

XGL is a different X server. This is a more incremental change which is slated to become part of Xorg. We don’t believe that replacing the entire X server is the right path, and that improving it incrementally is a better way to modernize it. After talking to people at xdevconf, it felt like much of the upstream Xorg community shares this view. You can search Adam Jackson’s notes for “large work for Xgl” to get the blow-by-blow or NVidia’s presentation from XDevConf 2006 on using the existing model.

We’ve been working on the AIGLX code for a some time with the community, which is in direct contrast with the way that XGL was developed. XGL spent the last few months of its development behind closed doors and was dropped on the community as a finished solution. Unfortunately, it wasn’t peer reviewed during its development process, and its architecture doesn’t sit well with a lot of people.

The other question is Wait, can I use compiz? The answer there is a theoretical yes, although no one has actually gotten it to work. We love compiz and we think it’s great stuff and is well polished, but it’s often confused with the underlying architecture of XGL. Much like the code that we’ve added to metacity, compiz is a composite manager. With a bit of work, it should be possible to get compiz working on this X server. There’s an excellent post from Soren on the topic of compiz vs. metacity.

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I helped put this online today:

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS REMIX CONTEST EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 14
New Vocal Samples from Chuck D and George Clinton Made Available for Use

San Francisco, CA, USA – February 15, 2006

Creative Commons, along with filmmakers Kembrew McLeod and Ben
Franzen, today announced that due to overwhelmingly positive
response, the Copyright Criminals Remix Contest has been extended by
two weeks, ending on March 14. Additionally, new vocal samples from
influential rapper Chuck D (of Public Enemy) and pioneering funk
musician George Clinton (of Parliament and Funkadelic) have been made
available for use in the competition.

Winners will be chosen according to the same criteria as originally
announced; no other contest details are changed.

The Copyright Criminals Remix Contest encourages producers, DJs, and
remixers from around the world to use audio snippets from the
upcoming documentary film Copyright Criminals in new, original songs.
One winner will have his/her music featured prominently in the final
edit of Copyright Criminals. The winning track, along with 11 runners-
up, will be included on the film’s companion CD. The contest is going
on now at ccMixter.org.

Drawing from more than fifty interviews with prominent musicians,
artists, scholars, lawyers, and music industry representatives,
Copyright Criminals looks at the development of sound collage (also
known as sampling). The film explores the complicated impact that
copyright law has had on the creative practice of sampling and
studies the conflicting opinions artists and others have about
appropriation.

Samples of dialogue by artists like De La Soul, DJ Qbert, Matmos,
Coldcut, and members of Negativland – all taken from interviews
conducted for Copyright Criminals – are available online at the
popular remix community ccMixter.org for use as source material to be
included in entrants’ songs. Entries will be judged by McLeod,
Franzen, and author/producer Jeff Chang. Contest rules and details
are available at ccMixter.org.

About the judges

Kembrew McLeod is a professor at the University of Iowa and an award-
winning independent documentary filmmaker. McLeod has written music
criticism for Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and MOJO; and has
authored two books, most recently Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous
Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity (Doubleday).

Ben Franzen is an Atlanta-based artist who owns an independent
production company called Changing Images LLC, which specializes in
video, photography, and multimedia. Franzen edits the animated TV
program Squidbillies, which appears as part of the Cartoon Network’s
Adult Swim line-up.

Jeff Chang is the author of the American Book Award-winning Can’t
Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. In 1993, he co-
founded and ran the influential indie hip-hop label, SoleSides (now
called Quannum Projects), helping launch the careers of DJ Shadow,
Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, and Lateef the Truth Speaker. He has
helped produce over a dozen records.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that promotes the
creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works by empowering
authors and audiences. It is sustained by the generous support of the
Center for the Public Domain, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Omidyar Network, and the Hewlett Foundation. For more
information, visit http://creativecommons.org.

Contact

Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
eric@creativecommons.org

Kembrew McLeod
Co-director, Copyright Criminals
kembrew@kembrew.com

Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit