Free software
Topics
free software, open source, copyright, FLOSS art, open standards.
Events
- Conferences and summits
OSCON (*1999, Portland), FISL (*2000, Porto Alegre), FOSDEM (*2001, Brussels), Oekonux Conference (*2001, int), Linux Audio Conference (*2002, int), LibrePlanet (*2006, Cambridge/MA), FSCONS (*2007, Gothenburg), Open Source Bridge (2009-2018, Portland) [1], FOSSASIA Summit (*2010, Asia), IndieWeb Summit / IndieWebCamp (*2011, Portland & int), FabFuse (2012-2015, Amersfoort), Koppelting (*2016, Amersfoort), OFFDEM (*2020, Brussels)
- FLOSS arts festivals and events
Eclectic Tech Carnival (int., *2002), Piksel (Bergen, *2003), Verbindingen / Jonctions (Brussels, [2000] 2004-2013), HAIP (Ljubljana, 2004-2012), OpenLab (London, 2005-2012) Make Art (Poitiers, 2006-2010), Libre Graphics Meeting (int., *2006), Art Meets Radical Openness (formerly LiWoLi, Linz, *2008), Flossie (London, 2012-2013), TransPiksel (int., *2016)
Publications
- Richard M. Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto", Mar 1985 ff. [2]
- Richard M. Stallman, "What Is the Free Software Foundation?", GNU’s Bulletin 1:1, Cambridge, MA: Free Software Foundation, Feb 1986, pp 8-9.
- Richard M. Stallman, "What Is Free Software?", 1996 ff. Previous versions.
- Richard M. Stallman, et al., Free Software: Essays and Articles, 1996 ff. Collection of articles.
- Bruce Perens, "Debian Social Contract, Version 1.0", Jul 1997.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Goodbye, ‘Free Software’; Hello, ‘Open Source’", Feb 1998.
- Richard M. Stallman, "Why 'Free Software' is better than 'Open Source'", 1998; rev. as "Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software", 2007 ff.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Open Source Summit", Linux Journal, Jun 1998.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Keeping an Open Mind", Cyberian Express, Mar/Apr 1999.
- Mark Stone, Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman (eds.), Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 1999, 280 pp.
- Bruce Perens, "The Open Source Definition", pp 171-188. [3]
- Eric S. Raymond, "The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story", (Part Two), Feb 2004.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Terminology Wars: A Web Content Analysis", 2004.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Open Minds, Open Source", Analog, Jun-Jul 2004.
- Simon Yuill, "Your Machines: Your Culture", Variant 2:20, Summer 2004.
- Mute 2(1): "Underneath The Knowledge Commons", London: Mute, Dec 2005.
- Simon Yuill, "All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses", Mute 2:8, London: Mute, May 2008.
- Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), FLOSS+Art, Poitiers: Goto10, and London: Mute, 2008, 320 pp.
- Chun Lee, Art Unlimited: An Investigation into Contemporary Digital Arts and the Free Software Movement, London: Middlesex University, 2008, 166 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Marloes de Valk, "Tools to Fight Boredom: FLOSS and GNU/Linux for Artists Working in the Field of Generative Music and Software Art", Contemporary Music Review 28(1): "Generative Music", eds. Nick Collins and Andrew R. Brown, 2009, pp 89-101, PDF. [4]
- En Defensa del Software Libre, 4 vols., 2010-2016. (Spanish)
- Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett (eds.), Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art, 2011.
- Aymeric Mansoux, "How Deep is Your Source", in Digital Art Conservation, Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice, ed. Bernhard Serexhe, Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2012.
- Paula Roush, "Towards a Free/ Libre/ Open/ Source/ University", Furtherfield, Feb 2013.
- Aymeric Mansoux, "My Lawyer is an Artist", Hz #19, ed. Sashiko Hayashi, Fylkingen, 2014.
- Aymeric Mansoux, Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production, London: Goldsmiths University of London, 2017, xxxviii+486 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Christina Dunbar-Hester, Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures, Princeton University Press, 2020, xi+271 pp. [5]
- petites singularités, "O2FFDEM. The threat to free software: An OFFDEM manifesto", Jan 2020.
- "O2FFDEM. La menace qui pèse sur le logiciel libre. Un manifeste d’OFFDEM", Jan 2020. (French)
- Aymeric Mansoux, Roel Roscam Abbing, "Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS", in The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture, eds. Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, and Berlin: transmediale e.V., Feb 2020, pp 124-140, HTML.
- "Sieben Thesen zum Fediverse und zur Weiterentwicklung von FLOSS", in The Eternal Network. Vom Enden und Werden der Netzkultur, eds. Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, and Berlin: transmediale e.V., 2020, pp 136-154. (German)
- "Sept Thèses sur le Fédiverse et le devenir du logiciel libre", trans. Framalang, Framablog, 26 Jan 2021. (French)
- Présence Solidaire, "On Software Syndicalism", Jul 2021.
- THX - Présence Solidaire. Pænser Ensemble: le Collectif et le Soin Radical, Brussels: petites singularités, 2021, 168 pp. (French),(English),(Spanish)
Documentary films
- FLOSSOFÍA: el software libre en el arte, dir. Ernesto Romero, 2009, 83 min. With footage from the 2008 editions of Make Art and Piksel festivals.
- Art Meets Radical Openness, 2009, 26 min. Documentary of the 2009 festival edition. Film conceived by Annalisa Cannito, Chui Yong Jian, Santiago Bence.
Resources
- Alternative Internet, a collection of networks, tools and devices aiming at decentralisation.
Pages
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See also
Hacker culture, Copyright activism, Commons, Data activism, Art servers, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Live coding, Libre graphics, Federated networks
