[PD] PDCon (was Updated pd-extended)

Fri Sep 26 21:39:20 CEST 2014

Hey all,

Lately, I have been talking about the idea of organizing a PdCon in
Lawrence KS, with a group (the Lawrence Creates Makerspace).  This
past year, we saw some great media arts projects here from the Free
State Festival--so I'm planning to get in touch with the folks in
charge to look at whether we could partner with next year's festival.
I also had some uncertainty over my own level of participation--but I
now have some flexibility to schedule free time to put toward it.

So, October could be a good month to discuss what's possible/feasible,
and then make a decision whether to invest the time and energy to make
it work.  I'm certainly looking for information and guidance--any
feedback at all really.

Chuck

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres
<porres at gmail.com> wrote:
> Honestly, I've been thinking for quite a while now about putting together
> some new kind of festival, much like piksel - related to digital arts with
> free software and open hardware. It could potentially hold a PdCon in it.
>
> In the meantime, I've been producing and organizing music concerts/shows,
> and I'm also trying to make another project happen which is a music festival
> (not related to pd at all). This one is giving me a hard time to get out of
> paper and it's holding the line. But I believe the other project will have a
> much greater acceptance and everything, like the PdCon had.
>
> One way or another, I was hoping that PdCon would keep touring the world on
> its own, and that it'd be cool to have it in the US or somewhere else that
> it's never been to.
>
> cheers
>
> 2014-09-25 22:40 GMT-03:00 me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>:
>
>> >> I was waiting for the american PdCon and it never happened
>>
>> hans and dan had talked about this. maybe it could still happen? ed had
>> talked about london once i remember in '09?
>>
>> >>  guess I'll have to make another south american one
>>
>> brazil? or somewhere else in s. america? do it! your a great organizer....
>> :)
>>
>> m
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres
>> <porres at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> love those two ideas
>>>
>>> I could also add the idea of having some research group working on it. At
>>> least here in Brazil I know a couple of people who'd like to back it up.
>>>
>>> so yeah, I was waiting for the american PdCon and it never happened :(
>>> guess I'll have to make another south american one
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> 2014-09-21 18:19 GMT-03:00 me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> >> it involves time
>>>>
>>>> ... or money.
>>>>
>>>> maybe we revisit the kickstarter (or something else) idea brought forth
>>>> by jonathon a few years ago and just pay someone to do it. to me it seems
>>>> like 1) none of us really have any money (im just assuming here we are all
>>>> poor artists) and more importantly 2) none of us really have any time and
>>>> those that do might not have the skills.
>>>>
>>>> OR maybe we have another PDCon (remember that?) to get amped up and pump
>>>> something out....
>>>>
>>>> m
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I talked to Hans about this a bit. In essence, it involves bringing in
>>>>> the new pd vanilla source and making sure the Pd-extended
>>>>> additions/modifications aren't lost. With the updates/cleanups to the tcl/tk
>>>>> sources a few years ago (great work Hans et al!), it should be alot easier
>>>>> than the previous extended releases. But still, *easy* or not, it involves
>>>>> time.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 21, 2014, at 6:00 AM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [PD] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Updated pd-extended
>>>>> Date: September 20, 2014 at 5:02:59 PM EDT
>>>>> To: Billy Stiltner <billy.stiltner at gmail.com>
>>>>> Cc: "pd-list at lists.iem.at" <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I wish I knew something about coding to help out with its development
>>>>> :P I do care a lot about it though and wish I could help in some other way.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do see a few problems with extended, but they're basically related to
>>>>> some of the externals and libraries that sometimes do not work as they
>>>>> should, have bad and messy help files and are sometimes redundanct. If
>>>>> welcome, I could help sharing my thoughts and two cents about that, but I
>>>>> realize those are not actual bug fixes regarding the code, so it's not a
>>>>> priority on its to do list and issues for being updated to another release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, while were at it, what kind of work exactly do you mean someone
>>>>> would have to do? I suppose there is a great list of bug fixes just to keep
>>>>> it basically what it is. Given the context, I'm not assuming any big to do
>>>>> list for some new features agenda. But besidesthe bug fixes, how hard is it
>>>>> for someone to just update to the latest vanilla core?
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, since Pd is an open source project that relies on community
>>>>> effort, and this is the list of its main developers and users, I guess this
>>>>> is the place to talk about a collaboration and see if we can get
>>>>> Pd-extended's development
>>>>> to continue.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd to help in any way I can.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --------
>>>>> Dan Wilcox
>>>>> @danomatika
>>>>> danomatika.com
>>>>> robotcowboy.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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