HPR1699: FOSDEM 2015 Part 3 of 5




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Summary: Website: https://fosdem.org/2015/ FOSDEM is a two-day event organised by volunteers to promote the widespread use of open source software. Videos of the talks refered to in this show are made available on their website. Wikimedia Listen to the interview with Quim Gil Website: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property. Constant Association for Art and Media ~ Hack the Knit Listen to the interview with Andz and Chris Website: http://www.constantvzw.org/ Constant is a non-profit association, an interdisciplinary arts-lab based and active in Brussels since 1997. Constant works in-between media and art and is interested in the culture and ethics of the World Wide Web. The artistic practice of Constant is inspired by the way that technological infrastructures, data-exchange and software determine our daily life. Free software, copyright alternatives and (cyber)feminism are important threads running through the activities of Constant. Constant organizes workshops, print-parties, walks and "Verbindingen/Jonctions"-meetings on a regular basis for a public that's into experiments, discussions and all kinds of exchanges. Libre Graphics magazine Listen to the interview with ginger Website: http://libregraphicsmag.com A Libre Graphics Magazine is long overdue. In a market dominated by magazines devoted to design discourse built around proprietary tools and the latest computer graphics tricks and techniques, users of