“Paying the costs of making things free”

post updated 2010.11.14 01:00 CET | shortlink http://wp.me/p9f2i-jD

Economies of the Commons 2 – International Conference on Open Content

November 12 , 13 – 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands + online

How are we going to pay the bill for Free Culture that is to remain as publicly accessible as possible?

http://www.ecommons.eu

LIVE ONLINE:

http://www.debalie.nl/live

http://ecommons.tuxic.nl/?page_id=1987

Second Life screening:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/188/188/88

Timetable:

http://ecommons.tuxic.nl/?page_id=1675

29-31 oct.: blender conference 2010 live on 2d + 3d web

Please ADD or CORRECT info! – Blogpost updated 2010.10.30 08:37 CEST — shortlink http://wp.me/p9f2i-ix

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Just like in 2009, the 9th annual Blender Conference, a 3D software Developers & Users Event in Amsterdam, will be streamed live online on the web and screened in the virtual world Second Life.

October 29-30-31, 2010

Blender is a free and open-source software program for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. For graphic designs, movies,  games and other visual arts. Also for importing 3-D objects into virtual worlds such as Second Life and OpenSim.

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Conference info:

• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference

Schedule:

• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/schedule

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Attend online at the Caledon Oxbridge University in SL:
http://paderdesign.de/secondlife/blender-conference-2010

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/76/141/29 – Lecture Hall

The Blender Conference moves from the Lecture Hall to the Sandbox in the evenings and nights:

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/66/159/1501 – Sandbox

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Live Streams: (De Balie main theatre only)

http://www.debalie.nl/live

• http://live.engagetv.com/debalie.php – Flash video
• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-flash – Flash video (high bandwith 720 x 404 pixels)
  
• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-flash-small – Flash video – (low bandwith 480 x 270 pixels)
• http://www.blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-html5 – Html5 browsers video (iPhone, iPad, etc)
• rtsp://darwin02.engagetv.com/debalie.sdp – H.264/Mpeg4 video (copy/paste in Quicktime, RealPlayer, VLC player or others)
• http://live.nu/1.pls – Mp3 audio
• http://live.nu/1.m3u – Mp3 audio
• http://82.94.213.7:8000/live.nu-1 – Mp3 audio (also for SL parcels)

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Video-on-Demand / Replay:

• Repeats on the live streams of earlier recorded video when there is no live feed.
• Video files available after a few weeks or so.

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IRC Chat Channels:
http://blender.org/community/chat

http://webchat.freenode.net – irc://irc.freenode.net

• #blender
• #blenderchat
• #blenderconference

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Event pages:

• http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=165195463505056
• http://flickr.com/groups/blender2010

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Tweets:

• Hashtag #blenconf2010 – http://twitter.com/search/blenconf2010
• Hashtag #blender3d – http://twitter.com/search/blender3d
  
• The #Blender3D Daily – http://paper.li/tag/blender3d
• Hashtag #blender – http://twitter.com/search/%23blender
  
• The #blender Daily – http://paper.li/tag/blender
• http://is.gd/gseWL (tweetgrid)
• http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=8&q1=blenconf2010&q2=blender3d&q3=blender+conference&q4=%23blender&q5=%23opensource&q6=blenderconference&q7=%23SL&q8=SecondLife&q9=opensim

Apex Aeterna 1 by Maygray, created with Blender, imported in SL.

Second Life recently introduced 3D meshing (Beta). Some examples of pioneers using Blender to import 3D creations into SL:

http://flickr.com/groups/secondlife3dmesh

Other Blender user images:

http://flickr.com/groups/772503@N23

http://flickr.com/groups/blender

Second Front about Wikipedia, SL & media in general

blog post short link:  http://wp.me/p9f2i-fR

Second Front members Great Escape (aka artist Scott Kildall) and Man Michinaga (aka Patrick Lichty, also the animator of The Yes Men) were special guests in De Hoeksteen Live! at the NIMk.  Interviewed by Prince Clause Fund director Els van der Plas.  Live on SALTO 1 TV (Amsterdam) + web.

They talked about the about the CPoV (“Critical Point of View”) Wikipedia Conference in Amsterdam where they did presentations. (Patrick Lichty: “This-presentation-might-get-me-killed”)

Furthermore about the virtual world Second Life and their performance art group Second Front in particular. And about new media in general.

Above photo’s by Anne Helmond

VIDEO-ON-REQUEST:

• Video Part 3 (01:00-02:00) – Interview with Patrick & Scott starts from about 01:55.3
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280100.asf

• Video Part 4 (02:00 – 3:00 wintertime)
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280300.asf

• Video Part5 (04:00 wintertime) – Last few minutes of the Reuters SL intervention video by Second Front
  mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1003280400.asf

  

  

These above video files will be available online for a maximum of 4 weeks after the live broadcast of march 28/29 (2010).

Second Front’s Breaking News III Video (2007)

Watch the first two hours video of this edition of De Hoeksteen Live! with special attention for the current NIMk workshop ‘The Media City’ here: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bw

wikipedia-watch.org

This blog post is also posted at: http://wp.me/p6Uoa-bn

Videos: Virtual Web Symposium Amsterdam

Video-on-demand of the Virtual Web Symposium online now!

Watch these very interesting lectures, showcases and interviews in Flash video here: eduverse.org/index.php/symposia

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27 feb.: Virtual Web Symposium, Amsterdam [update]

At De Balie, wednesday 27 februari 2008, from 15:00 hrs till around 22:00 hrs CET

Extensive report about this conference at blog.mindblizzard.com

Report (NLs) at Upthevortex.nl

This event includes Scientists, Educators, Web Specialists, 3D Designers, Artists, Technicians and others. There will be demonstrations, lectures and discussions (both live and virtual) about Education and the Future of the Virtual Web

For a list of participants and more detailed info see eduverse.org

LIVE INTERNET BROADCAST