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geekgirl (r)osiex aka the metal cupcake publishing about interesting things for a really long time!
Two guys and a girl were sitting at a bar talking about their lives.
The first guy said, “I’m a YUPPIE. You know, Young Urban Professional.”
The second guy responded, “I’m a DINK. You know, Double Income No Kids.”
They then asked the woman, “What are you?”
She replied: “I’m a WIFE. You know, Wash, Iron, Fuck, Etc.”
The first release of Plumi, the Plone based video sharing CMS produced by EngageMedia, is just around the corner. The beta should be available late June, and ready for installation and testing.
Across the internet, a growing number of websites and tools are offering people a wide range of ‘free beer’ — type of products. But, as far as cultural activists go, there is still a shortage of free speech tools.
This Australia-based collective has produced software to enable an activist network in SE Asia and the Pacific to take online a wide range of social jusice and environmental video. What’s more, it wants to do so on a socially just model.
PIKSEL07 FESTIVAL/WORKSHOP Piksel is an annual international event for artists and developers working with free and open source audiovisual software. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software. This year’s event continues the exploration of free/libre and open source audiovisual code and it’s myriad of expressions. The event runs from the 15 – 18 November, the deadline for submissions is 15 July, 2007.