Posts Tagged: FLOSS

Interview with Alexandre Leray, Eduard Martínez Piracés, Eric Schrijver, Femke Snelting and Stéphanie Vilayphiou of Open Source Publishing

By Silvio Lorusso, September 25, 2011

Open Source Publishing is a design collective – or “caravan” – based in Brussels, but it includes people from all over the world. It was founded in 2006 and now it can even count on a second generation. OSP focuses on – just to mention a few things – free software culture, type design as [...]

Interview with Adam Hyde, founder of FLOSS Manuals

By Silvio Lorusso, September 5, 2011

The initial material for FLOSS Manuals was provided educational material about free software created by Adam Hyde during his workshops worldwide. Adam then started building a community to create new materials. The first FLOSS Manuals platform was built in 2007 with the help of Aleksandar Erkalovic and in 2010 the new platform – Booki – [...]

Thomas Krag on Booksprint and Collaborative Authoring

By Silvio Lorusso, May 23, 2011

‘Booksprint’ is a working model for collaborative book authorship, and has since inspired a FLOSS tool called Booki. Its genius is that it takes the proven model of the ‘codesprint’ that open source software communities have used so successfully – to develop huge amounts of code in single intense bursts of focussed collective labour over [...]

Femke Snelting: F/LOSS tools in graphic design

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Femke Snelting is an artist and designer who works with the interdisciplinary and international graphic design collective Open Source Publishing based in Brussels. During her presentation Snelting addresses the possibilities and realities of design, illustration and typography using a range of F/LOSS (free/libre/open-source software) tools. While modifying and expanding their toolbox, OSP uses solely open [...]