[CREATE] LGRU meeting: the Federated Publishing programme

Thu Sep 20 23:31:26 PDT 2012

Hello,

In case you find yourself in or around Rotterdam (NL) next week: Welcome
at the upcoming Libre Graphics Research Meeting, organised by WORM.
Participation is free of charge but places are limited so please write to
birgit at worm.org if you are planning to be there!

best,

Femke

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Objet:    WORM Abstracting Craft LGRU meeting: the Federated Publishing
programme
De:       "Walter Langelaar" <walter at worm.org>
Date:     Mar 18 septembre 2012 18:33
À:       "lgru" <lgru at lists.constantvzw.org>
Copie à: "Birgit Bachler" <birgit at worm.org>
          "brand, katelyn" <katelyn at worm.org>
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Dear all,

please find below the outline for next weeks meeting, followed by the
daily schedule - which you can also find in more detail at http://worm.org
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you next week in Rotterdam,
and are happy that this research meetings programme came out so well in
collaboration with the excellent FLOSS Manuals crew.

As you can see the programme leaves a certain room for more ad-hoc style
presentations and/or discussion, please do let me know if there's anything
specific you would like to bring into the meeting so we can facilitate
that.

So see you next week,
greetings from Rotterdam!

Walter Langelaar

*FLOSS Manuals and Federated Publishing*
by Mick Fuzz and Adam Hyde.

Federated Publishing was anticipated by this astonishing passage from 
Marshall McLuhan "Predicting Communication via the Internet (1966)":

 "Instead of going out and buying a packaged book of which there have been
five thousand copies printed, you will go to the telephone, describe your
interests, your needs, your problems’ and they at once Xerox with the
help of computers from libraries all over the world, all the latest
material for you personally, not as something to be put out on a
bookshelf. They send you the package as a direct personal service.  This
is where we’re heading under electronic conditions. Products increasingly
are becoming services."

This is a vision of the book and Federated Publishing. An open network of
book production platforms connecting people and books.

In contrast proprietary publishing dominates the search for new
distribution formats and economic models, reward systems for authors and
others, and fuels an unwillingness to make content interoperable on a
technical, legal, or social cultural level. It was this context McLuhan
imagined we were escaping. Federated Publishing provides this mechanism.

FLOSS Manuals & Federated Publishing – Presentation & Discussion

In FLOSS Manuals anyone can clone or migrate a book to another platform,
reuse and change the book without permission, and publish it wherever they
like. This is Federated Publishing. Our presentation will cover our
experiences in this area and include an outline of Book Type, the
federated publishing system used by FM. The following discussion will
invite collaboration to imagine the future of Federated Publishing.

Federated Publishing / Libre Graphics Mini-Sprint

We invite you to take part in a mini-sprint to create a publication on
Libre Graphics and/or Federated Publishing. This sprint will give
participants an introduction to the process of collaborative writing in
real time. Together will will set our objectives, agree a provisional
structure and after a demonstration of the Book Type software we will jump
right into writing.

The process has some parallels with the Book Sprint methodology that Adam
Hyde has developed alongside FLOSS Manuals and Book Type. However a
mini-sprint is not designed to wholly complete a book within its
timescale. For more info on Book Sprints see http://booksprints.net

*programme*

*thursday* 27th:

10.00 doors open + meet&greet
11.00 meeting introduction by Walter Langelaar of WORM, followed by
presentations and updates of LGRU partners & associates;
      WORM (Rotterdam), Constant (Brussels), Medialab Prado (Madrid) and
Piksel (Bergen)

13.30 break for lunch

14.30 FLOSS Manuals & Federated Publishing – Presentation & Discussion
      introduction to the meetings topic with Mick Fuzz, Sacha van Geffen
and Eric Kluitenberg

16.00 DIY printmaking - The hardware side of Libre Graphics
      with presentations by Rotterdam-based Mesh Print Club and Ewoud van
Rijn of PrintRoom - and Yannick Bouillis,
      founder of Offprint Paris, a project space for contemporary
photography and a book fair for independent publishers.

18.30 break for diner

20.00 an optional, ad-hoc evening programme in which we can use WORMs
spaces for further discussion, extended meet&greet and
      project presentations. Projectors, soundsystems and workspaces
available.

*friday* 28th:

10.00 presentations and updates of LGRU partners & associates

11.30 presentation by Nuraini Juliastuti.
      Since 1999 Nuraini Juliastuti is a co-founder and director of the
KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, an organisation aiming
      at advancing a wider critical movement to cultural issues through
popular education practices and experimental approaches.
      In her presentation she will talk about different levels of
illegality and copying in Indonesia, taking KUNCI's library and
      other related examples in Indonesia as case studies.

12.30 presentation by Marcell Mars.
      Nenad Romic (aka Marcell Mars) is one of the founders of Multimedia
institute - mi2 + net.culture club mama in Zagreb.
      Marcell will present on his 'FREE LIBRARIES FOR EVERY SOUL (FLES)'
project, in which he devised a DIY digital bookscanner
      and a methodology for sharing books online, among other things.

13.30 break for lunch

14.30 Federated Publishing / Libre Graphics Mini-Sprint start
      We invite you to take part in a mini-sprint to create a publication
on Libre Graphics and/or Federated Publishing.
      This sprint will give participants an introduction to the process of
collaborative writing in real time. Together we will
      set our objectives, agree a provisional structure and after a
demonstration of the Book Type software we will jump right
      into writing.

18.30 break for diner

21.00 Panospria netlabel special with Scant Intone + Freida Abtan +
Martijn Comes + ∆D∆E∆W∆ + special guests: Ike Yard
      Panospria founder Constantine Katsiris has been active in exploring
the electronic arts since the early 1990s as an artist,
      curator, designer and producer. Originally formed in Saskatoon, snug
in the middle of the Canadian prairies, the Panospria
      collective has grown to incorporate independent artists networked
across the country. These artists specialize in the fields
      of experimental music, video art, intelligent lighting, fine art and
design. After years of activity under the radar they
      now have a home on the web to disseminate their works.

*saturday* 29th:

10.00 presentations and updates of LGRU partners & associates with
showcases of the WORM'commisions 'Partsba.se' by Force of
      Freedom and the 'MOL' low-cost DIY lasercutter platform by Snijlab.

11.30 continuation of Federated Publishing / Libre Graphics Mini-Sprint

16.00 closing presentation and discussion with FLOSS Manuals, LGRU
partners&associates and guests

18.30 WORM open bar followed by the meetings closing diner at Bazar.

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