I wrote a quick summary of yesterday’s party and chronicled many press hits the event got on the Internet. I’m still not finding many photos which I know were being taken. If you took photos or wrote about yesterday, please do comment on this post or email me.

I also wrote about the Laoban Soundsystem 1.0 July 1st Green Day IDEA2009 on my wiki previously if you’d like to chip in some links or comments. I really want to use the speakers, granted they aren’t the big Laoban 2.0 stack, for more events in Beijing! Also, I really must learn more about this brilliant Ableton live software. I’ve avoided it because its not free software, but now I think I’ve got it running in Wine. And, regardless, I must learn about this software if myself or anyone else wants to make something similar for live audio/video performances in the same caliber, but as Free Software (and better!).

If you want a great analysis and take on the Chinese Green Dam Saga, please read Andrew Lih’s post and the other great ones by Rebecca MacKinnon.

Now that the Green Dam Youth Escort has been delayed, we have a full on celebraton on our hands in CaoChangDi from now until midnight, on Wed, July 1, 2009.

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We will bring our Laoban 1.0 Soundsystem with its new shiny grillz tomorrow. To all DJs and musicians out there (especially good ones!), this is an open call to come on out and plug-in to the speakers. We need you to come out and make some sound, art, and have a big ole green day brainstorm. The whole day is free and open! The entire day is to boycott the Chinese Internet.

To all our Internets Massive! To all Twitteronians, Identicators, Free and Open Source, Creative Commons’d out people in Beijing, or those who just want to have fun, please come out tomorrow for the full day or even just part of it. Matt Hope, Jon Phillips (rejon), Robin, Phil Dunn and so many more will most definitely be on hand to mix, make some projects in realtime and collectively boycott the Internet.

Party Day — See You in Caochangdi

WEDNESDAY 2009 1 July 9:00 AM to 11:30 PM, all day beer and chatting.

Blog friends, food friends, all are welcome. There will be gifts.

Phone: 010-8456-4194
Email: xuesheng512@gmail.com

Address: Beijing, Chaoyang District, Airport Service Road, Caochangdi No. 258 FAKE Studios

Breakfast menu: soy milk, gruel, youtiao, dumplings, four types of pickled vegetables, fried eggs, ham, tea eggs, fruit platter

Lunch menu: cinnamon lotus root, village style fungus mushrooms, seafood hot and sour soup, marinated duck, oyster sauce beef, fried fresh vegetables, Yangzhou fried rice, fried noodles, seasonal fruit

Dinner menu: cucumber, fish and egg soup, barbecue chicken, fish steaks, gulao pork, hot and spicy tofu, black peppercorn beefsteak, fried dishes, assorted mushrooms, udon, lotus fried rice, seasonal fruit

Midnight snack menu: cabbage hearts, spicy dried tofu, peanuts, fried broad noodles, gruel, fried bread with dipping sauce, garlicky vegetables, season fruit, four types of pickled vegetables

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack. Coke, Sprite, Fanta, orange juice, plum juice, lemon tea, Tsingtao, all kinds of beverages.

Guests can hang out in the lobby our outside eating and doing whatever they feel like.

Thanks to our great friend Robin Peckham for the realtime translation of the original post by the Wizzler.

UPDATE: Chinese government has delayed the Green Dam! The party goes on though in more of a celebration-mode!

Here is the motherload of reviews and notes about LGM2009 from the LGM website:

• Alexander Prokoudine (Magic glue between developers):
• LGM 09 aftermath,
• Cédric Gémy (Création Libre):
• lgm-j1,
• lgm-j2,
• lgm-j3
• Jon Phillips (Rejon):
• Creating in the Cloud Presentation at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 and the related presentation,
• More Reviews and The Ultra Wide Views Exhibition at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
• Open Source Publishing:
• Reportage : day 2,
• lgm top nine,
• New work on Fonts at W3C,
• interview at the airport,
• Nathan Willis:
• Libre Graphics Meeting 2009: Visions of the Future,
• Open fonts at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
• Yuval Levy:
• LGM Day 1,
• LGM Day 2,
• LGM Day 3, Day 4, Follow Up,
• Exhibition Video,
• LGM 2009: Conclusions

One of the gems Nathan Willis also covered in a separate article, “Open Fonts at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009,” is the LGM2009 discussion around the Open Font Library, the larger Open Font movement, and what is surely to be quite important, web font linking. The basics are that up until this point, fonts on the Internet have been limited to literally 4-6 generic fonts. With the upcoming release of Firefox 3.5, this will change as fonts can be linked like many resources, downloaded and rendered.

Nathan’s article I’m not doing justice right now, so please go read up on his report about the importance of Open Fonts, and the upcoming relaunch of the Open Font Library in sync with the release of Firefox 3.5.

Kudelabs Office in Guangzhou

Recently I worked with my friend, artist and UC Berkeley Professor, Greg Niemeyer to install one of his Blackcloud sensors at Kudelabs in Guangzhou, China, a great software company cranking out web applications you will be hearing more about in the near future.

Blackcloud is a quite interesting project to create highly sensitive pollution sensors to be distributed around the world with the data collecting at blackcloud.org to make observations and games around the concept of pollution. Each Blackcloud sensor tracks:

… CO2, your VOC’s, your city light, your endless noise, your rising heat, your damp confines in places all around the world. I visualze the Indoor Air in beautiful graphs so you can see when and where you pollute. Maybe I can predict your pollution cycles, too.

From Drop Box

Blackcloud Sensor at Kudelabs office in Guangzhou

The sensors are quite interesting little boxes I thought I might have had a hard time transporting into China. They have little LEDs on the outside which show the previously discussed measurements. The whole box uses power-over-ethernet and of course a net connection to send and receive pollution data.

Here is more info for the tech nerds, Greg wrote:

I built two sensors so far. Both have a two-PCB board design, a ATMega 168 processor, a DCS CO2 sensor, and an array of other parts. The blue version sends data to my server via SMS text messaging, and the red version sends data via TCP/IP. I built the sensors using Eagle PCB design software, and a local PCB manufacturing plant.

I took a bunch of pictures of the installation and Kudelabs at Flickr, which I’m having a terrible time accessing today in the Great Firewalled China.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonphillips/tags/kudelabs

To me its quite curious to collect pollution data in China. It is often rumored that even during the Olympics, pollution measurements in Beijing were done far outside of the city away from the major sources of pollutants. With the lowering prices of sensors and affordable access to the Internet, it is possible for many to do their own fact finding. Now, if only the Chinese Internet could be made more reliable…

NOTE: Kudelabs is a gracious sponsor of the Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 being manufactured in Guangzhou, China, right now! Check out the latest in-progress pictures.

The Ultra Wide Views Exhibition at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 from Yuval Levy on Vimeo.

The making of the first Ultra Wide Views Exhibition for Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montréal, Canada. High resolution large format giclées; a high resolution 360° panoramic display projecting still images, 3D (anaglyph) panorama and movies with ambiophonic sound; an experimental projectors array.

Thanks to Yuval on this cool “making of video.” I really had some good talks with Yuval about making LGM2010 more sustainable and more focused on content rather than just tools, aka bikeshed making. He read over my review, and now please check out his much more complete review of LGM2009, including his todo for 2010:

To do for LGM2010

• Decide on the venue ASAP. This is the single most important issue on the critical path to leading to LGM2010. The discussion on the mailing list seems to have fade out?
• Reach out to the general public! Ginger Coons suggested tupperware parties? Let’s show schoolkids that they need not pirate software to be creative. Let’s share our creations with the general public. Let’s get the media buzz going. Concentrate a few speeches geared at the general public on the Saturday. Make the exhibition last longer than the conference, with the conference being its culminating point. Entice the general public to learn about free graphics.
• Keep the buzz going – my feeling is that there is not enough going on in between conferences. I’d like to see more activity on the mailing list. We need more fund raising in these difficult times.

“Don’t check your email in the bathroom self-portrait.” (above)

The above two images are from a developing project I’m calling the Panyu Platform. See the whole set to get a picture of the raw space.

The rest of the images are from CaoChangDi, aka, the #CCD

By the way, all images above taken with my Android Google Phone. I still refuse to buy a camera other than the one on my phone