Michael Mandiberg

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, [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Jennifer Dopazo has translated the HOWTO CC into spanish.
Which language will be next?

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 [...]

My HOWTO negotiate a CC license contract with a publisher was translated into Chinese. I love CC.
UPDATE: The translation is now on the CC Taiwan site. Awesome.