[PD-ot] Fwd: FLOSSify 1: Digital Foundations

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Anyone near NYC and want to help port an Adobe Creative Studio  
textbook to free software?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Michael Mandiberg <mandiberg at gmail.com>
> Date: January 28, 2009 5:11:08 PM EST
> To: Everyone <everyone at eyebeam.org>, openculture at eyebeam.org, alumni at eyebeam.org
> Subject: FLOSSify 1: Digital Foundations
> Reply-To: openculture at eyebeam.org
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2)
>
> Hello all
>
> 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  
> FLOSSmanuals.  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 FB:
>
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56609462816
>
> And to sign up on the wiki with their potential role
>
> http://wiki.digital-foundations.net/index.php?title=February_FLOSS_Registration
>
> 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!
>
> please forward widely
>
> m
>
>
> 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




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