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

[Ryan Stec]

Hey Justin,

I think the essentially Dorkbot should be for less formal presentations 
and exchange. So although we are not talking about formal artist talks 
we are hoping to have a series of presentations where people can present 
works in progress or give an overview of something they have experience 
with. For Artengine workshops we are looking at a more specific and 
somewhat more formal engagement. With our workshops we expect a course 
outline, and a certain level of knowledge passed on to the course 
attendees.

Their is also the case of $. There will usually be a formal fee 
structure for both participants and instructors. In general Artengine 
has a more formal structure around it with committees, boards, staff, 
operating grants etc. Dorkbot creates a more flexible environment for 
exchange and learning not bound up in the formal structure of Artengine.

So I think we are going for fairly informal presentations that do not 
require too much of the presenter and with which they can get some 
feedback about what they have been working on if they are interested.

Somewhere I have a few ideas Sebastian and I discussed I will post them 
in the next few days.

Cheers
r

Ryan Stec
Artistic Director
Artengine
2 Daly Ave.	       Ottawa, ON
K2P 0G5	 	       613.686.1941



Justin Barca wrote:
> 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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