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Ping Report, February 19, 2009

February 19, 2009

I have a bad habit of not blogging little things. Like when I get blogged. It seems so recursive. But at the same time, I delish them, and then they just stay there.

So in an effort to change that practice, I am instituting a Ping Report, which I will do as needed, but at least once a month. Just links, and maybe some pull quotes from blogs and exhibitions.

To start out, here is a bunch of blog coverage of the Bright Bike, Digital Foundations, and my new laser cut work:

Bright Bike:

Again on MAKE blog
And Reblogged on Rolling Resistance.
And Treehugger
And Daily DIY
And Bike Commuters
And Scooter Scoop
And PSFK
And Style Crave
Trends Update
Bike Hacks
NotCot

Digital Foundations

Was featured on BoingBoing, Creative Commons Blog (twice), and on Just Write Click

Burned Books

James Wagner first post, and second post about his visit to see my new work

The DATA BASE piece was featured on the CRAFT zine

misc…

Here is some coverage of the Bright Idea Shade on Guanabee and Inhabitat

I don’t know if I posted the coverage of 31 Acts on N_P

And AfterSherrieLevine.com still riles people up. And was front and center at a conference at Berkeley

Some old news: Oil Standard was in OURS at Parsons

And some really old news: My work was included in http://greenmuseum.org/c/conmob/conmob.html, a show curated for greenmuseum.org by Claude Willey and Ryan Griffis:

curated by Ryan Griffis and Claude Willey with a carload of cultural projects focusing on the problems of mobility and energy. Features works by: Brian Collier, Free Soil, Amy Balkin/Kim Stringfellow/Tim Halbur/Greenaction/Pond, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Laurie Palmer, Platform, Josephine Starrs/Leon Cmielewski.

Posted in ping report | Also tagged 31acts, BrightBike, Digital Foundations, laserletters |

FLOSSify!

February 19, 2009

FLOSS Book Sprint: Digital Foundations from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.

Last weekend was the epic Digital Foundations–>FLOSS Book Sprint, led by Adam Hyde of FLOSSmanuals.net and Eyebeam Senior Fellow Michael Mandiberg. Around 25 volunteers convened at Eyebeam over the course of 3 days to translate Digital Foundations from Adobe to FLOSS (Free Libre Open Sources Software) applications, making good on the promise of Digital Foundations’ Creative Commons license.

Adam Hyde, founder of FLOSSmanuals.net, guided what he has termed the “Book Sprint” where both experts and novices collaborate with the aim of writing an entire book in a fixed period of time. The process was exciting, exhausting, an effective. We are proud to say that the new translation of Digital Foundations and Intro to Media Design with FLOSS is currently available on the FLOSSmanuals.net site, and will be in print shortly. One more step closer to easing the monopolizing power of proprietary software companies.

Posted in Digital Foundations | Also tagged collaboration, Digital Foundations, Eyebeam, HOWTO CC, Teaching |

FLOSS Digital Foundations Book Sprint

February 19, 2009

FLOSS Book Sprint: Digital Foundations from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.

Posted in Videos | Also tagged collaboration, Digital Foundations, Eyebeam, HOWTO CC |

FLOSS Digital Foundations Live!

February 17, 2009

http://en.flossmanuals.net/DigitalFoundations

For three days in February 2009 Adam Hyde and the members of the FLOSSmanuals.net collective convened at Eyebeam in NYC to translated xtine burrough and Michael Mandiberg’s new Creative Commons textbook Digital Foundations from Adobe software to FLOSS software

Video and print version coming soon

Posted in News | Also tagged Digital Foundations |

FLOSSify 1: Digital Foundations

January 28, 2009

Wanna FLOSS?

We are FLOSSing Digital Foundations next weekend. We need help, and we want to do it *together.* We need people of all levels, from the GIMP guru, to the Ubuntu n00b to test it all.

Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach design software. It was written for the Adobe Creative Suite, but on Feb 6, 7, 8 we are going to translate it to FLOSS apps with Adam Hyde of FLOSSmanuals.net. For more on the book, and why this translation is so important, see the description below.

We are trying ot get people to register via Facebook

And to sign up on the wiki with their potential role

I hope to see you there. And I hope you can spread the word. By the end of the weekend, we’ll have the first decent primer in FLOSS software!

FULL EXPLANATION:

FLOSSIFY 1 : Digital Foundations

For a long time educational courses have been cheap marketing for proprietary software companies. Can a student really afford all those expensive softwares required by the courses? No. Ever hear of a software company kicking up a fuss because students are using ‘unofficial’ versions? Well, it does happen but not often. And why not? Because proprietary software companies know, as the universities know, that once the students leave their training they will be indoctrinated with those tools and simply slipstream into being paid up proprietary software citizens. Simply put, unlicensed software used in education is tolerated because it is cheap marketing.

This is how tools become ‘industry standards’.

FLOSS Manuals is fighting this flow by converting textbooks that use proprietary software to using free software in their examples.

We call this process “FLOSSify”. We convert the book from closed software to Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) hence we ‘FLOSSify’ the book.

Our first text book is the wonderful Digital Foundations book produced by Michael Mandiberg and xtine burrough (http://digital-foundations.net/). Its a text book designed to teach software by teaching design. The current toolset it uses is the Adobe Creative Suite and we will convert these examples entirely to using free software.

Not only have the authors given the kind permission to go ahead with this, they originated the idea and approached FLOSS Manuals to be involved. We are very happy to get behind this initiative and work with the authors to create a fantastic text book promoting the use of Free and Open Source Software within design courses.

FLOSSIFY 1 : Digital Foundations will focus on a fun 3 day event at Eyebeam, NYC. Anyone is welcome to attend and some food and beer will be provided. Come and meet some of your old geek friends, make some new, and help make a step towards unshackling education from proprietary
software.

FLOSSIFY 1 : Digital Foundations
Eyebeam, NYC
RSVP here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56609462816
Feb 6-8
starts 10ish
finishes when we are done
fast connection, a table, some chairs, and beer and food provided

http://eyebeam.org/
540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, NY 10011
Tel. 212.937.6580 Fax: 212.937.6582

Posted in News | Also tagged Digital Foundations |

Unrecyclable is CC Licensed

January 28, 2009

Oz Etzioni‘s Unrecyclable logo won the Eco-Vis Design Challenge last (last?) year. He recently made the image available under a Creative Commons license.

We made a couple hundred of these for the exhibition, and they were gone on the first day. Now you can make your own. if someone gets some printed, send me some c/o Eyebeam!

Posted in News | Also tagged Eco-Vis, sustainability |

HOWTO CC in Spanish

January 21, 2009

HOWTO

Jennifer Dopazo has translated the HOWTO CC into spanish.

Which language will be next?

Posted in daily update | Also tagged collaboration, HOWTO CC |

HOWTO CC Translation Project

January 16, 2009

A few days ago I posted 10 things I learned in the process of successfully negotiating a CC license with a book publisher. This contract was for xtine burrough and my co-authored Digital Foundations, which takes the Bauhaus exercises and translates them into software based exercises. Yesterday Bob Chao posted it on CNET Taiwan fully translated. And then Po-chiang Chao put it up on the Taiwanese CC site.

This got me really excited about a HOWTO CC Translation Project. I have contacted CC’s Fred Benenson who is excited about it too. So, here’s the procedure:

Read the original post
Translate that post into one of the many many CC jurisdictional languages
Post that translation to your blog; if you don’t have a blog, you can email it to me (michael – mandiberg – com)
I will forward those links to Fred at CC, who will make sure they get to the person in charge of that language
I will post links to translations on my blog as they come in
We will make it easier to negotiate for Free Culture

(Thanks Bob Chao and Po-chiang Chao; quite possibly you are the same person? I would thank you privately, but I couldn’t find an email or a contact form, and don’t read Chinese! So your thanks comes publicly.)

Posted in Thoughts | Also tagged collaboration, Digital Foundations |