Tag Archive for the term: open source

I just discovered a huge and actually useful list of things you can do to reduce costs. These are focused on small business savings, and let’s be honest, most indie artists basically are their own small business, but can be fully applicable to home in most cases as well. The first chuck of tips on [...]

On my way home from work last Friday, I spotted this knitted sash on a tree. The tag says, “Knitty Gritty” so when I got home I googled the name, but couldn’t find anything that seemed to match, even though I seem to remember hearing about a Montreal group who knit things to put on [...]

New Feature:
There’s a new feature available for all Indyish members that will let you set a Creative Commons License for the content you publish throughout this site. It does so by adding a new section to the Write/Edit Post pages (see first screenshot below). You can choose to create a different CC license for each [...]

I just got back from Gilberto Gil’s second event here in Montreal, a kind of curated discussion between the Brazilian Culture Minister and Tropicalismo musical innovator and rebel Gil, the Digital Policy Coordinator Claudio Prado (sweetly anarchic and kind), and four academics and activists implicated in digital media.
Gilberto Gil, and Brazil as a whole, [...]

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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Well, I started a post about 2 different examples of “open source storytelling.” But this isn’t it. My post ran away with me and turned into a relatively nerdy diatribe on the subject of open source licenses applied to storytelling, and a critique of the Million Penguins project. I decided to post it on OpenJournalMontreal [...]

If you’re like me, you can see the advantages of open source development in the digital media age and how we can all benefit, but some of the core ideas might still escape you. Perhaps they are the economic concepts or they’re legal stuff. This might only be evident when you try to explain open [...]

Moby’s made some good tracks over the years, you gotta admit it, and yeah, he made money getting them in commercials like crazy, but now he’s done a cool license trick to give something back - over 70 of his tracks have recently been published on a section of his site called MobyGratis with a [...]

Crucial to open systems, or at least to open source software development, is the right to fork. This right is embedded in the culture and licenses of the open source code community: because the systems are always visible and legally available, anyone can take the whole code off in a new direction and use what [...]