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Texts from lectures (gathering)

Soap box annual report (Ivan Monroy Lopez)

Last year I made this zine with Groff, Perl and NotCourier-sans. Groff is the software used for some of the GNU/Linux documentation, among other (…)

From source code to text source: textual practices and standards at the heart of the Debian community (Christophe Lazaro)

The intervention is based on an ethnographic analysis of the Debian community, which devotes itself to the development of free software (…)

Smatch (Dominique Roodthooft)

During KFDA 09 Dominique Roodthooft launched the first edition of Smatch, a series of ‘composed evenings’ that re-appropriate the stage as a (…)

FLOSS manuals conversation (Adam Hyde, Claudia Borges)

Live video conversation discussing the way manuals and practice interact. Could the context of Free, Libre and Open Source Software lead to (…)

Claudia:

In an ods file (the most used kind of file in QA) , with the fields we use to report and describe test cases and bugs, I have added conversations around the main activities of the testers I am working with. On the first sheet you have the day in 10 software deployments ( because deployments are a ticking clock of a normal day), 10 software bugs with some comments on quality, error, failure. And then a sheet on the working process/ the 'people'.

Opening Data

Kirrily Robert in conversation with Nicolas Malevé A live video interview on the way data can be opened up to a heterogenous group of users, and (…)

From Grey Eminence to Grey Immanence: The Ambiguities of Evil Media (Andrew Goffey, Matthew Fuller)

Our interventions offer an exploration of the grey zones created by grey media, where the jubilant exercise of power takes the form of (…)

To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—Of cabbages—and kings (Michael Moss)

Paratext, digital contexts (Jurgen Pieters)

By looking at a research project that Jurgen Pieters is supervising at the University of Gent, this lecture will evaluate the impact that new (…)

Ticket Poetry

* status: NO

GooDiff (Alexandre Delaunoy)

Internet is a versatile platform for providing services for human being. Those services are used by people but not only designed for their own (…)

Amidst the Golden Age of Privacy (Seda Gürses)

Never has privacy been so productive, so profitable, and so entertaining. Other than it being a genuine concern for many individuals and (…)

Documentation from workshops and performances (gathering)

Kaleidoscope (An Mertens)

Kaleidoscope is a transdisciplinairy collaborative installation-performance around the usage of surveillance camera’s and software that documents (…)

Populated fonts (Ivan Monroy Lopez, Ludivine Loiseau)

Development and extension of a pictures/glyph translation process. Around dingbats and into the em, Ivan et Ludi will present an attempt (crack) (…)

Epicpedia (Annemieke Van Der Hoek)

EpicPedia is a web application that presents itself as a theatre script to explain the development of a Wikipedia article. The script ‘translates’ (…)

Grey Literature Radio

Human Calculation Machine (rehearsal + documentation)An exercise in Human Computation Participants will perform parts in a human-only powered computer, capable of addition and counting. Core (…)

Dingbat Liberation Fest (Ivan Monroy Lopez, Ludivine Loiseau)

Dingbat kitchen! The fonts OSP* started from and the dingbats that they sample come from a something that could perhaps be called a Commons. (…)

Visualising data (Anne Laure Buisson, Ludivine Loiseau)

Starting from the experience of building the GenderArtNet project ( http://www.genderartnet.eu ), Anne Laure Buisson, Ludivine Loiseau and (…)

E-traces

The E-traces project approaches Web 2.0 in the context of the progressive phasing-in of a security firm. It is articulated around 3 axes : A (…)

GooDiff Hackaton (Alexandre Dulaunoy)

GooDiff is a service for automated tracking of semantic changes in web service policies. Come and discover GooDiff and other versioning software (…)

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