On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:16 PM, John Haltiwanger <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
