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Art Meets Radical Openness, festival for art, hacktivism and open cultures, Linz
- Sunil Abraham
- Access Space
- Adhocracy (exhibition)
- AMRO
- Amelia Andersdotter
- APO33
- Raphaël Bastide
- Manetta Berends
- Jan-Christoph Borchardt
- Michal Cáb
- Calafou
- André Castro
- Joana Chicau
- Community servers
- Constant
- Ginger coons
- Disclosures
- Donestech
- Marc Dusseiller
- Eclectic Tech Carnival
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- F/LAT
- Fediverse
- FISL
- Flossie
- FOSDEM
- Luka Frelih
- Gisle Frøysland
- FSCONS
- Furtherfield
- @gnd
- Peter Gonda
- GOTO10
- Artemis Gryllaki
- Alex Gunn
- Hackers At Large
- Hackteria
- Haip
- Christina Haralanova
- Graham Harwood
- Benjamin Mako Hill
- Hivenetworks
- Adam Hyde
- The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest
- Interferencias
- Internet activism
- Jaromil
- Ryan Jordan
- LAFKON
- Micah Lee
- Libre Graphics Meeting
- Yuwei Lin
- LURK
- Make Art
- MaMa
- Vesna Manojlovic
- Aymeric Mansoux
- Manufactura Independente
- Pierre Marchand
- Marcell Mars
- Mattin
- Nancy Mauro-Flude
- Tomislav Medak
- Media Design and Communication Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam
- Armin Medosch
- Modern Poland Foundation
- Mur.at
- Michael Murtaugh
- Mz* Baltazar's Laboratory
- Oekonux Conference
- Julian Oliver
- OpenLab
- OSP
- Piksel
- Platoniq
- Public Software Group
- Pure Data
- Relearn
- Hugo Roy
- Sanchez
- Servers
- Servus.at
- Sloboda stvaralaštvu!
- Femke Snelting
- Sourcefabric
- Richard Stallman
- Malte Steiner
- SuperCollider
- Systemli
- Systerserver
- TransHACKfeminist! camp
- Transpiksel
- Marco Valdivia
- Marloes de Valk
- Varia
- James Vasile
- Danja Vasiliev
- Verbindingen / Jonctions
- VX:mission
- Wizards of OS
- WSFII
- Wendy Van Wynsberghe
- XPUB
- Simon Yuill
Events
- Conferences and summits
- OSCON, Portland, *1999
- FISL, Porto Alegre, *2000
- FOSDEM, Brussels, *2001
- Oekonux Conference, int., *2001
- Linux Audio Conference, int., *2002
- LibrePlanet, Cambridge/MA, *2006
- FSCONS, Gothenburg, *2007
- Open Source Bridge, Portland, 2009-2018, [1]
- FOSSASIA Summit, Asia, *2010
- IndieWeb Summit / IndieWebCamp, Portland & int., *2011
- FabFuse, Amersfoort, 2012-2015
- Koppelting, Amersfoort, *2016
- OFFDEM, Brussels, *2020, [2]
- Event listings: foss.events (Europe & online, *2019).
- FLOSS arts festivals and events
- Eclectic Tech Carnival, int., *2002
- Piksel, Bergen, *2003
- Verbindingen / Jonctions, Brussels, [2000] 2004-2013
- HAIP, Ljubljana, 2004-2012
- OpenLab, London, 2005-2012
- Make Art, Poitiers, 2006-2010
- Libre Graphics Meeting, int., *2006
- Art Meets Radical Openness (formerly LiWoLi), Linz, *2008
- Flossie, London, 2012-2013
- TransPiksel, int., *2016
Publications
- Richard M. Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto", Mar 1985 ff. [3]
- Richard M. Stallman, "What Is the Free Software Foundation?", GNU’s Bulletin 1:1, Cambridge, MA: Free Software Foundation, Feb 1986, pp 8-9.
- Richard M. Stallman, "What Is Free Software?", 1996 ff. Previous versions.
- Richard M. Stallman, et al., Free Software: Essays and Articles, 1996 ff. Collection of articles.
- Bruce Perens, "Debian Social Contract, Version 1.0", Jul 1997.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Goodbye, ‘Free Software’; Hello, ‘Open Source’", Feb 1998.
- Richard M. Stallman, "Why 'Free Software' is better than 'Open Source'", 1998; rev. as "Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software", 2007 ff.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Open Source Summit", Linux Journal, Jun 1998.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Keeping an Open Mind", Cyberian Express, Mar/Apr 1999.
- Mark Stone, Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman (eds.), Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 1999, 280 pp.
- Bruce Perens, "The Open Source Definition", pp 171-188. [4]
- Eric S. Raymond, "The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story", (Part Two), Feb 2004.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Terminology Wars: A Web Content Analysis", 2004.
- Eric S. Raymond, "Open Minds, Open Source", Analog, Jun-Jul 2004.
- Simon Yuill, "Your Machines: Your Culture", Variant 2:20, Summer 2004.
- Armin Medosch, "Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations Inna Babylon", in How Open is the Future? Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free and Open Source Software, eds. Marleen Wynants and Jan Cornelis, Brussels: VUB Brussels University Press, 2005, pp 135-162; upd. in Engineering Culture: On 'The Author as (Digital) Producer' , eds. Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa, New York: Autonomedia, 2005, pp 177-201; repr. in Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts, New Delhi: Sarai, 2005, pp 222-239. Draft.
- Mute 2(1): "Underneath The Knowledge Commons", London: Mute, Dec 2005.
- Simon Yuill, "All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses", Mute 2:8, London: Mute, May 2008.
- Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk (eds.), FLOSS+Art, Poitiers: Goto10, and London: Mute, 2008, 320 pp.
- Chun Lee, Art Unlimited: An Investigation into Contemporary Digital Arts and the Free Software Movement, London: Middlesex University, 2008, 166 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Christopher M. Kelty, Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008, xvi+378 pp, PDF.
- Two Bits: la trascendencia cultural del software libre, ed. Florencio Cabello, Barcelona: Icaria, 2019, 455 pp, PDF. (Spanish)
- Marloes de Valk, "Tools to Fight Boredom: FLOSS and GNU/Linux for Artists Working in the Field of Generative Music and Software Art", Contemporary Music Review 28(1): "Generative Music", eds. Nick Collins and Andrew R. Brown, 2009, pp 89-101, PDF. [5]
- En Defensa del Software Libre, 4 vols., 2010-2016. (Spanish)
- Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett (eds.), Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art, 2011.
- Aymeric Mansoux, "How Deep is Your Source", in Digital Art Conservation, Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice, ed. Bernhard Serexhe, Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2012.
- Paula Roush, "Towards a Free/ Libre/ Open/ Source/ University", Furtherfield, Feb 2013.
- Journal of Peer Production 3: "The Critical Power of Free Software", Jul 2013.
- Christopher Kelty, "There Is No Free Software".
- Aymeric Mansoux, "My Lawyer is an Artist", Hz #19, ed. Sashiko Hayashi, Fylkingen, 2014.
- I Think That Conversations Are the Best, Biggest Thing That Software Has to Offer its User, Brussels: Constant, 2015, 351 pp. (English)
- Aymeric Mansoux, Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production, London: Goldsmiths University of London, 2017, xxxviii+486 pp. PhD dissertation.
- Christina Dunbar-Hester, Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures, Princeton University Press, 2020, xi+271 pp. [6]
- petites singularités, "O2FFDEM. The threat to free software: An OFFDEM manifesto", Jan 2020.
- "O2FFDEM. La menace qui pèse sur le logiciel libre. Un manifeste d’OFFDEM", Jan 2020. (French)
- Aymeric Mansoux, Roel Roscam Abbing, "Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS", in The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture, eds. Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, and Berlin: transmediale e.V., Feb 2020, pp 124-140, HTML.
- "Sieben Thesen zum Fediverse und zur Weiterentwicklung von FLOSS", in The Eternal Network. Vom Enden und Werden der Netzkultur, eds. Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, and Berlin: transmediale e.V., 2020, pp 136-154. (German)
- "Sept Thèses sur le Fédiverse et le devenir du logiciel libre", trans. Framalang, Framablog, 26 Jan 2021. (French)
- Présence Solidaire, "On Software Syndicalism", Jul 2021.
- THX - Présence Solidaire. Pænser Ensemble: le Collectif et le Soin Radical, Brussels: petites singularités, 2021, 168 pp. (French),(English),(Spanish)
- Toolkit for Homes of Commons, European Cultural Foundation, 2021.
- MARCH: "Publishing as Protocol", eds. Constant and Vessel, 2021-2023. [7]
- Johan Söderberg, Maxigas, Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking, forew. Richard Barbrook, MIT Press, Nov 2022, 264 pp, PDF. Publisher.
Documentary films
- FLOSSOFÍA: el software libre en el arte, dir. Ernesto Romero, 2009, 83 min. With footage from the 2008 editions of Make Art and Piksel festivals.
- Art Meets Radical Openness, 2009, 26 min. Documentary of the 2009 festival edition. Film conceived by Annalisa Cannito, Chui Yong Jian, Santiago Bence.
Resources
- Alternative Internet, a collection of networks, tools and devices aiming at decentralisation.
- Anti-Subscription Catalogue, a catalogue of non-subscription, free, open-source, and one-time fee software.
- Eightycolumn (80c; archived), a network of free culture aware educators in art, music and design education.
See also
Shadow libraries, Hacker culture, Copyright activism, Commons, Data activism, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Live coding, Libre graphics