http://blender.org

coordinator: Ton Roosendaal

I Network Description
extract from site:
“The Blender Foundation is an independent organization (a Dutch “stichting”), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals:

* To establish services for active users and developers of Blender
* To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license
* To establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation’s goals and cover the foundation’s expenses
* To give the worldwide Internet community access to 3D technology in general, with Blender as a core
* To facilitate the open source Blender projects.

Blender is an open source software package for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, and gaming. Initially developed by Ton Roosendaal’s company NaN in the Netherlands, its popularity, and capabilities, have grown over the years. There is a large and active user base with ongoing development by dedicated hackers, making Blender a powerful and viable 3D software solution.”

II Main goal during Winter Camp
Blender is migrating to a major new release (2.5) with a completely revised architecture for events and tools handling. The impact of this work on especially the user interface, and how to structure and design the various editors in Blender, is difficult to oversee. Getting a core team of developers and artists together for the Winter Camp session will help us enormously with that task.

Initial topics for sessions:

- 2.5 architecture review
- Paradigms for constructing UIs
- UI Design proposal reviews
- Python API redesign for both standard UIs are extensions
- Next-gen animation tools
- Related tasks for open movie “Durian”
- Roadmap/scheduling and tasks

See also the wiki log on the current work on:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5

III Participants
- Andrea Weikert, Germany
- Campbell Barton, Australia
- Jean-Luc Peurriere, France
- Matt Ebb, Australia
- Martin Poirier, Canada
- Nathan Letwory, Finland
- William Reynish, Denmark
- Brecht van Lommel, Belgium
- Ton Roosendaal, NL

http://www.dyne.org

coordinator: Denis “Jaromil” Rojo

I Network Description

Dyne.org appeared online in 2000 when the HasciiCam software was published: an invention widely appreciated for its artistic value and for making possible to broadcast live video using old hardware from a slow network connection.
Inspired by a mix of software and poetry, a growing network of developers released to the public software made to insure freedom of expression, configuring dyne.org as a free software atelier, a portal to Digital Creation and Media Art.
Ranging from radio makers, humanitarian organizations, video artists, medical researchers, media activists and educators, a large amount of people employed and redistributed dyne.org software worldwide, free of charge, echoing to the freedom spirit of this autonomous initiative.
Despite the fact in its early days (and until now) dyne.org was never boosted with merchandising or money, several young hackers pioneered the constitution of a wide horizontal network. Openness, knowledge sharing and freedom of creation have been the philosophical principles guiding the evolution of dyne.org, hosting creations that have been conceptualised not for a profit, but for their role within society.

Mission Statement

Dyne.org aims:

to promote the idea and practice of open source knowledge sharing within civil society: by
fostering research, development, production and distribution of FOSS solutions;
to open the participation to on-line and on-site communities, leveraging the democratic and
horizontal access to technology, lowering the economical requisites to its accessibility;
to foster employment of FOSS in artistic creation: exploring new forms of expression and
interaction, disseminating new languages that can be freely adopted and re-elaborated by everyone,
insuring the long term conservation of digital artworks;
to support FOSS development, also when non-profitable: being software a socially relevant
media it should not be invented and maintained only on the basis of its merchantability.

II Goal for the Event

The main goal in our participation in Winter Camp is to network all developers involved in free
on-line video streaming technologies based on the new free codec “Ogg/Theora”.

Dyne.org is developing the software FreeJ aiming at providing an efficient back-end for mixing of multiple signals (as video, text, images and more) into live or programmed streams on the Internet.

FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for realtime video manipulation used in the fields of dance teather, veejaying, medical visualization and TV. It lets you interact with multiple layers of video, filtered by effect chains and then mixed together. Controllers can be scripted for keyboard, midi and joysticks, to manipulate images, movies, live cameras, particle generators, text scrollers, flash animations and more. All the resulting video mix can be shown on multiple and remote screens, encoded into a movie and streamed live to the internet.

FreeJ can be controlled locally or remotely, also from multiple places at the same time; it can be automated via javascript to be operated via MIDI, Joysticks, wiimotes, mices and keyboards. As a result of our development season, for which the Winter Camp is a crucial meeting point, we aim to provide FreeJ with various language bindings (Python, Ruby, Java and Perl in addition to Javascript which is already present) and integrate it in existing free on-line video portals, in collaboration with the communities Giss.tv, Engagemedia.org and Transmission.cc.

III Participants

- Hassan Bassam
- Luca Bigliardi
- Jaromil
- Vanessa Vespasiani
- Andrea Guzzo

- Vladimir Flores Garcia
- Lluiz Gomez i Bigorda
- Valentina Messeri
- Gabriele Zaverio
- Manuel A.L. Cangemi
- Cristoph Rudorff
- Andrew Nicholson
- Ramiro Cosentino
- Emanuel Nicolosi

I Network description

Creative Labour is an offshoot of the Euromayday network, a predominantly European network that mobilizes around the first of may as a day to reclaim rights for the new generations growing up under a new, flexible labour regime and in a European context where welfare entitlements are on the decline.

Some of the main groups involved in the early beginnings of Euromayday, such as the Intermittents in Paris, the Chainworkers in Milano and Yomango in Barcelona, have in the past years been organising around issues of Creative Labour. The Intermittents staging an impressive nation wide campaign around the rights of cultural workers, Chainworkers with their project Serpica Naro dramatically intervening in the Milan Fashion Week, and Yomango and their related projects working on issues of property. Now that the urgency of the 1st of May street mobilisations has become less pronounced, different networks have deepened their commitment to local intervention, addressing broad issues around contemporary forms of labour. Creative Labour is one of the core issues where groups are working on.

In the near future, the aim of the Creative Labour network is to give more centrality to the question of labour conditions and contestation in the discussion around creativity and the knowledge economy, building on different local experiences that have s o far had little international coordination offline. Next to that, of course, the network will to continue to be active on a broad array of activities, that have come to define a European creative undercurrent in socio-economic political thought and activism, and a source of radical innovation.

II Goal of the event

The main goal at Wintercamp is to strategize internationally about creative labour conditions and set up a more structured exchange for the long term, strengthening the network.

The international coordination within the Euromayday has so far been based around more general issues. Coordination around specific creative labour issues has happened mostly informally. This has prevented any further elaboration on questions of creative labour.

By bringing some of the most inspiring and innovative examples of creative labour struggles together, we think we can finally share to the full extent the depth and richness of each and every one of these initiatives. The importance hereof, is that local political and creative context differs markedly as organizational forms. We think an international gathering will give perspective on how to build and extend on the diversity of the different experiences.

For the Wintercamp 09 we also think this strand will prove to have a interesting interaction with the theme area on creative critique and more theoretical avenues to explore the problematic of creativity and knowledge based societies.

III Participants

These are the folks coming for the whole week:

Chainworkers – Milano, Italy (fashion sector)
1. Zoe Romano

Union 2.0 – Italy
2. Davide Barillari

Conservas/EXGAE – Barcelona
3. Simona Levy

Fels – Berlin, Germany
4. Marcus Grätsch

Hamburg Euromayday
5. Lena Oswald, Hamburg
6. Ute Meyer, Hamburg

Carrot Collective, UK
7. Valeria Graziano

8. Valery Alzaga

9. Merijn Oudenampsen, Amsterdam

10. Joan Miquel Gual Bergas, Spain