[PD] PDCon (was Updated pd-extended)

Sat Sep 27 04:23:42 CEST 2014

I think if a PD convention were able to partner with a festival that would
be a powerful force for the good.  Of course, the festival organizers would
have to be convinced that there's a lot of Pd-realized art out there.  I
think if you can get some documentation of Pd conventions of the past (all
of which have had terrific performances and installations) that should be
a good inducement.

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 02:39:20PM -0500, Charles Z Henry wrote:
> 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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