Open Source City….a call out
Late last year the members of How Why DIY wanted to create an event called Open Source City “Open Source City was originally a weekend micro-festival of open source sound & media practice for the 2008 Liverpool City of Culture Programme organised by SoundNetwork and folly” We tried and we failed to get it off the ground mainly we felt after examining the remnants of grant application forms that we had got bogged down...
How? Why? DIY! – we are now official
How? Why? DIY! has incorporated as a Community Interest Company to promote the benefits of technology to the residents Liverpool and network creative technologists in the area. How Why DIY CIC – a bit of a mouthful now with the CIC on the end but as we have been doing a great deal of work and plan to do more it was only fair to incorporate. We have incorporated to or aim to. run events that promote community focus for...
Videos from Barcamp Liverpool
For those of you that couldn’t make it along to the first day of Barcamp Liverpool on Friday the 18th November then luckily we were there to video some of the talks. Not all of them but some so here they are the ones that we have processed so far. Adrian McEwen – What is the point of Liverpool Ross Dalziel – Open Source City John McKerrell – Welcome and introduction (60MB MP4) Dr Peter Hagerty – Virtual...
Graffiti Research Lab
This is a great video from FAT LAB – Here they demonstrate how to use a laser pen to”write” on the side of a building. I saw the video at thee Making Future Work conference – you can read my blog post here: http://www.defnetmedia.com/blog/2011/07/making-future-work/ I would love to see this as a project within Open Source City especially as all the code is available to download and reproduce . Links on my blog...