Tag Archive for the term: linux

Music Thing is a great blog if you’re on the slightly nerdy side of music-making. It’s the type of thing my friends have probably been reading for ages, but for whatever reason I just discovered recently. Music Thing is the journalistic follow-up to sites like Make and BoingBoing Gadgets. If you’re a regular DIY enthusiast [...]

I hammered out notes on the first half of the curated questioning of Gilberto Gil here, and now will continue to delight with more notes on digital policy, weee!
As part of the conversation about access, I asked about how understanding open software in comparison to ideals from Tropicalismo has helped advance free software in Brazil. [...]

Ahhhh REM, the sadman sounds and inescapably catchy guitar lines soothed my teenage angst just right and still satisfy uniquely. Yesterday the band announced an open source move, with HD segments from the video release to their newest single, Supernatural Superserious, available for download, mashup and remix on the song’s site.
Here’s the official video:

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Was just breezing through Planet Fedora, doing a little happy grazing and looking around now that I’ve been UPgRAded (woo!) to Fedora 7, and noticed this fun call for CC licensed musical contributions for a game that comes in the Fedora distribution. This would be a great / funny opportunity to get your sounds [...]

Sarah Pearson directed us to the LINUX Cafe on Harbord and Grace, so now there’s a little Indyish crew assembled here this fine morning in Toronto surrounded by Perl manuals and the Hacker Quarterly and heaps and stacks of other Linux loving literature. I giggled and shmoozed a bit with the owner had the typical [...]

The Assembly 2.0 is an international art relay for writers, actors, directors, illustrators, animators (GIFs) and musicians.
Press Release here.
Indyish can now officially announce that the starting text for the Assembly 2.0 – the project’s kernel – will be provided by the gentleman who’s been an international Fringe success story several times over, the critically [...]

York University in Toronto recently hosted Seneca’s 5th Annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium which took place October 26-27 at York University. Here at Indyish, we were busy doing our thing in Montreal and wish we could have caught it, but luckily the’ve made all the presentations available under a Creative Commons license. Probably [...]

The promised update:
Last night Elran and I picked up Tyler Rauman- whom you may know from the stunnning posters below this post on the blog page (and on every lampost in the citay) or maybe from Telefauna- and we headed North, out beyond the edges of where we’d been before. Henri Bourassa!! ooohhh. [...]