Well the winter is certainly time for hibernation and musing. I'd love to get together for a chat. Perhaps just as a way of supporting and getting feedback on ideas we could try and arrange a regular time? I'm sure even showing up for that could be hard, but its worth a shot. I'm available most times. Evenings are probably good. I'm in Central time, 8pm?
Most of my ideas right now are of the educational/missionary style, trying to promote the use of FLOSS amongst the general public or specific types of enthusiasts. So events, workshops, etc are what I'm thinking of. I have a fantastic house with a huge basement, and Lincoln is a pretty decent place. I was thinking of trying to set up some kind of 'summer camp' sort of thing like the folks at GOTO10 have each year, if people can travel we could have some kind of art show/workshops/discussion/fun times with people who might have an interest in FLOSS + Art or just learning in general. It might be better to try and host an event in a larger city where more people would show up, but part of my goal is to explore the use of digital media in non urban environments, make connections with people rather than technology, and just build a community. Anyways... yes lets chat. For purposes of getting the ball rolling, could we aim at meeting in IRC a week from today? Next Thursday at 8pm Central? -grant On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Tyler Leavitt <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree on a need for a common project. I have been hibernating/musing this > winter with a full load of classes and a newborn and have some stored up > inspiration that needs to be directed. I will be starting a new quarter of > school in 3 weeks (meaning that now I'm going through finals) and will > be starting an art project that will incorporate a homemade USB MIDI drum > trigger "brain" and PureData. It's going to an all-wood exterior piece with > wood blocks as drum triggers (played marimba style) that can play in 5TET > 7TET and 12TET --- ideas being loosely drawn from gamelan ensemble music. > > Maybe we can get together and talk about what we are doing and what > project(s) we could be working on and just the general goal/direction of > this little group in a chat environment soon, eh? Considering it's still > only 3 of us we should be able to work out a time to meet and discuss. I > don't know about you guys but e-mails are too hard for me to dismiss, put > off, and forget... so possibly some real-time chat could be of use in > pointing us somewhere. > > For now, > Tyler > > PS - Here is the USB MIDI brain I'm talking about > http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab/MIDI/perkusja/index.html > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, geoffroy tremblay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> could be interesting - I have been working here with a secondary >> school on puredyne and processing - I could offer remote help. >> >> I realized puredyne americas is a bit slow at this point probably >> because of the lack of common project - it would be great to have >> something central that would benefit/motivate all of us to participate >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:51 PM, grant centauri <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Things have stalled a bit on the wiki. I'm sure lives have gotten in >> the >> > way. >> > >> > I would like to try and host/coordinate some kind of >> educational/artistic >> > event on a smaller scale of what is happening elsewhere. >> > >> > I have a couple of ideas, some connections in the region to artists, and >> am >> > in the process of creating a more general GNU/Linux educational program >> here >> > in Lincoln. >> > >> > Could anyone who is interested please get in touch? I think with a >> project >> > like this and a timeline, perhaps some remote support we could make >> > something happen. Its just a matter of making it worth the cost of >> travel. >> > We're all pretty far away. >> > >> > thanks, >> > -grant >> > >> > --- >> > [email protected] >> > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >> > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >> > >> --- >> [email protected] >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >> > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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