[CREATE] [LGF] A name !

[Jon Nordby]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:16 PM, John Haltiwanger
<john.haltiwanger at gmail.com> wrote:
> So my mind was tumbling on it, and I stumbled across the combination of:
> Free Design Foundation. I suggest this because it seems to keep the coverage
> to the topics I saw covered at LGM (Bigups to all the people I met in the
> BXL!). Not only that, it's actually touch more properly inclusive
> considering the degree of typographic discussion that was carried out at
> LGM. And perhaps inspiring more?
A couple of things to think of.
Does "design" accurately describe the activities that people do with
our software? When I hear "design" I mostly think of graphics thats
made for a purpose, something that is designed. In contrast, "art" is
both somewhat wider, and is often more experimental and/or creative.
Design has more rules and best practices, art is very free flow,
anything goes. And I think a lot of projects, and artists using these
projects are more in the area of art than design.

Another thing to consider are "which parts are free/libre". A lot of
artists are using our projects, which are free and open source
software, to create "non-free" works. And thats perfectly fine in my
opinion, its an important part of the freedom they have when using our
tools. So are we talking mainly about free/libre software/tools, or
about free/libre content/culture? The two are of course not divergent,
but a name should represent the main focus or direction of an entity.

A slight side-note to that, I think libre is significantly better word
than free because its more explicitly about freedom; liberty. With
free you often have to specify, "free as in freedom, not as in beer".

If anyone feel that above comment are hampering the brainstorming,
just spin it: "which words describe and/or represents the people,
projects and activities involved in this organization?"

-- 
Regards Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com