Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Floyd Wilde <floyd AT newitmake.org.nz>]

Hi Danyl,

I just wanted to comment:

> funding from Arts Council England. I wonder if we could get funding to
> start teaching kiwi artists how to use open source tools?

What would you need funding for?  I think people would pay for this.



On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Danyl Strype <strypey AT riseup.net> wrote:
> Kia ora koutou
>
> Have you heard of Dyne:Bolic? It's a distribution of linux designed
> for running media applications on older computers. It runs quite well
> as a live disk (so well that I briefly forgot I was running my OS off
> a CD!), and can be installed on a hard disk by simply copying the Dyne
> folder off the CD onto a Windoze or Linux partition (you have to
> manually edit your boot loader to make it boot without the CD though):
> http://www.dynebolic.org/
>
> There hasn't been a release of Dyne:Bolic since the end of 2007, so
> I'm checking out another live distro called Pure:Dyne, which according
> to Wikipedia was originally based on Dyne:Dolic:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puredyne
>
> It's developed by a UK arts collective called GOTO10, as a tool for
> teaching sound and video media processing. They even managed to get
> funding from Arts Council England. I wonder if we could get funding to
> start teaching kiwi artists how to use open source tools? This could
> easily incorporate information about the pros and cons of CC
> licensing, and how to use the various CC technologies to tag digital
> works with licensing information.
>
> Nga mihi
> Danyl
>
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