[dorkbotottawa-blabber] Dorkbot meeting - Feb 5, and then first Tuesday evenings?

[Justin Barca]

Hey Dave,

Long time no see, curious to know how things are going with your Free
Software studio.  Glad you're in the loop on the dorkbot (and I'm
assuming ArtEngine).  ArtEngine is doing a series of workshops this
year, so maybe a workshop like you suggested should run under the
ArtEngine banner so it gets promoted to a wider audience.  This brings
up an issue to be resolved: how are we to decide what kind of
presentations should be made under dorkbot, if it will be doing
workshops at all.  Maybe dorkbot should stay out of this workshop
business all together considering this quote from their webpage:
"dorkbot isn't really a forum for formal artist talks or lectures".

Yeah, I'm curious to know how Processing compares to python libraries
I build to similar purposes to do the vector graphics stuff you can
see in http://playful-geometer.deviantart.com (just started playing
with the GIMP, which has up'd the coolness factor exponentially with a
mere handful of clicks).  I irk at the thought of using Java again
though :-P

***END BLABBER***

~Justin~



On Jan 8, 2008 3:38 PM, Dave Robillard <dave at drobilla.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:11 -0500, Justin Barca wrote:
> > I hope to be able to make it, but I'm not sure what that time space
> > has in store for me yet.  Do we have a set topic or presentation for
> > February ?
> >
> > I've been kind of curious about this Processing software for graphics
> > that you mentioned, and I may want to give an introduction to it in
> > the March depending on how I find it.  I'll try and remember to post
> > and update on that, but feel free to give me a poke if you don't hear
> > from me.
>
> Processing is pretty cool (though the performance leaves a bit to be
> desired... Java :/ ).  You can do some pretty cool things without much
> code (and it's pretty easy to grok for non-hackers)
>
> I could do intros for pretty much anything in the free software /
> linux / audio world if there's interest, though it seems everyone's more
> into graphics.  Maybe fluxus?
>
> -DR-
>
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