Lu posted a nice overview of cBlends at Versionfest a couple of weekends ago (I’m lagging on posting). Here is a pic of my cousin and his girlfriend modeling:
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Here is a much more complete overview of LGM2007 than I provided. I must admit, I get a bit fatigued always taking detailed notes of all the meetings and conferences I go to. I’m very thankful to everyone who writes such complete posts and takes pictures.
I just wrote a little diddy on LGM2007 at CC’s weblog. There is much much more to talk about, but I wanted to do the official-type CC thang on the CC blog so I can opine here. Until tomorrow morning, here is the CC post.
Anyone have any questiosn about my slides, etc?
I’ve been following my cousin’s blog and tracking how his career goes. He is finishing his 3rd year at University of Illinois, Chicago in the art department and wrote this today:
I can’t wait to be done with the semester. I don’t know if all this art stuff is for me or not…It’s always been my ‘plan B,’ but now I’m pretty sure my plan A (Rockstar) is going to have to work b/c if I’m stuck behind a desk animating some crappy game, I might have to shoot myself.
Here is my response:
Hell yeah! Rock the music scene! The thing about people always saying “have a backup plan” always bothered me. The part I understand now, and/or have moved beyond the naysayers is understanding making art and music sustainable…meaning, how to get paid from the craft…
While that is often viewed as selling out, or something, figuring out how to do all different threads of music to get paid and survive is key.
So, wouldn’t it be better to play music at clubs, DJ shows, be in multiple bands, etc, rather than rely primarily on one “I will not bend to not play my music” attitude, and/or be chained to a desk doing animations.
I hate pixar. I hate disney. I really hate toy story. (I will save this for another post, about having the top technology and minds, but the worst and most basic stories…all talk and no trousers).
On a positive note, 70-80% of all large artists make their money off of licensing it to companies, film, commercials, etc…if that path can be mastered, then you have the sustainable music career down.
Check out http://magnatune.com for more on this.
I often use my all mid-west middle class family as a barometer for america, and I think it is interesting to consider my cousin’s attitude and interest in music as representative of an American drive towards bettering one’s self and also participating in culture. I’m just curious, what is the most sustainable way to do this?
Let’s work together guys.
I know there is similar charge coming from other areas of the web, but ideally, OpenMoko+OpenEmbedded, the Gnome mobile plan and Ubuntu Mobile Initiative can share resources from the get-go.
Yes, I know diversity is good for survival, but OpenEmbedded has pioneered the system for development, we have great hardware support from OpenMoko, which is based upong GNOME/GTK, and then we have Ubuntu, which is by default a Gnome-based distro.
How can these projects better work together, to raise the level of water for everyone? Also, how can we as a community of users also better promote and push these projects to work together better?
IMO: There is such a strong organizational bias in .orgs to creating more and more projects, and we should really learn from open source’s approach to not reinvent the wheel, consolidate resources, and then and only then, maybe create a new project.
Let’s hook it up!
On another note, I’m working in the background on getting together with Michael Shiloh and sean from OpenMoko to have an OpenMoko presence at Makers Faire in the bay. More on this shortly…
Whoa, LGM 2007 (Libre Graphics Meeting 2 in Montreal) has been going off the chain for the past couple of days. I’m giving the last presentation of the day on the concepts of the Open Content Library, of which Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library are examples.
Here is my presentation if you are at all curious (or not): The Open Content Library at LGM 2007 PDF.
I’ll be back in SF tonite for some important meeting tomorrow and then back to hacking on some one cool TBA project and my various other projects.
I think I’m finally not burnt out from blogging too much, so I’ll hop on and right more now 
