Tag Archive for the term: open source (Page: 3)

In the spirit of free tools for our broke selves, I’d like to introduce you to an interesting site: OSALT or Open Source as Alternative. They provide an excellent and dense database of open source software charted against the dominant software choice in each category of application. So for example, I found it by googling [...]

Want to get a great idea of how the arts aspects of open source are evolving? You’ll get a huge dose from the aggregator built on a site called, of course, peace love and happiness. The site might be dizzying at first because it has so much info, but I think you’ll want to check [...]

On Saturday we had our first of the weekly meets we’ll be coordinating for The Assembly. At the start of each leg of this arty relay, Tessa and I decided it would be a good idea to meet with whoever wanted to come out, talk through any and all questions they might have and sort [...]

Lots of people came and cozied in to Maryanna and Melinda’s beautiful “Detention” studio wednesday night to enjoy the music videos that got made this weekend (story here). We had a nice big screen borrowed by a student on our team from a local university, and a digital projector borrowed from a friend. Calling people, [...]

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 [...]

Indyish went looking for someone really comfortable with open source recording tools to help us throw a cool Indyish workshop for POP, and we lucked out when we found Mathieu Johnson. Mathieu is a young artsy DIY guy with extensive open source experience, and a great ability to talk about what he does. He founded [...]

Sweet lads from Alter Reign- local Montreal rap duo- wrote a song about the recent Dawson shooting, which the Montreal Gazette mentionned recently in an article about the tragedy. It’s an intense track. Listen to it by clicking on the Alter Reign text link and then choosing the track called Dawson.

Heads UP:Alter Reign are [...]

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. [...]

So I’d been trolling the web looking for the perfect persons to help Indyish offer an open source for artists workshop on Audio recording and editing. My call to audacity returned no results, sadly (or at least none that made it to me), and the email I sent out to local linux scensters found me [...]

Hey, have you guys checked out this site? Publicbroadcasting.ca? It’s a pretty awesome endeavour, pulling feeds from independent broadcasters across the country and finding other high tech ways to sustain a national community of creators.
The Site exists to:
o Support Canada’s Public Broadcasters
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