The Experimental Gameplay Workshop

The Experimental Gameplay Workshop
From the site:
The Experimental Gameplay Workshop is a forum for the demonstration and discussion of innovative game designs. It provides a place for designers to showcase challenging, unproven work, and discuss it with peers.
By explicitly acknowledging the existence of a community of experimental game designers, the workshop helps legitimize gameplay-oriented research and development.

A related festival is The Independent Games Festival at http://www.igf.com/

Thanks Josh

Downtown network for the Arts

downtown network for the arts | about
From the site:
Location One has developed a package of hardware, software and support services that enables artists and cultural organizations to take full advantage of Internet-based technologies for creative interchange, program creation, delivery and promotion, both individually and as an arts-based community.

A P2P media distribution platform for news for and by students and others

DV Guide
The goal of this project is to create a content sharing platform consisting of contributors and corerspondents recruited from young audiences and students distributed throughout the global mediascape who are engaged in direct reporting via collective production of Internet and broadcast news clips. Ideally, the material of DV Guide should reflect on the social and cultural issues of a given participants respective community that has significance for broader audences while at the same time maintains the highest standards of journalistic integrity.

P2P, 802.11b, handhelds and radio, a combination made in my heaven

tunA
From MIT via Gizmodo:
tunA is a mobile wireless application that allows users to share their music locally through handheld devices. Users can “tune in” to other nearby tunA music players and listen to what someone else is listening to. Developed on iPaqs and connected via 802.11b in ad-hoc mode, the application displays a list of people using tunA that are in range, gives access to their profile and playlist information, and enables synchronized peer-to-peer audio streaming.

Thanks to Dan for the link.

a GNU GNOME…

GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project
From the page:
In a release that marks the fruit of six months of hard work from our hackers, maintainers, translators, testers, usability team and accessibility team, the GNOME community has done it again: GNOME 2.6.0 continues the high standards in the areas of usability, accessibility and internationalisation that our users expect from the world’s Free Software desktop.

Clay writes about “Situated Software”

Shirky: Situated Software

From the article:
Part of the future I believe I’m seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I’m calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast with what I’ll call the Web School (the paradigm I learned to program in), where scalability, generality, and completeness were the key virtues.

Posix for Java

Free Software by Gregory Guerin
From the description:
Imagine that you could catch signals, raise resource-limits, get mounted file-system info, manipulate file modes, or change effective user ID from Java. Imagine that many of the other interesting and useful POSIX system-calls were also accessible from Java. Imagine that they were organized in an easily understood and usable class library, which could be implemented for different platforms yet still be used transparently by any API-conforming user program.
Stop imagining and start downloading, because that’s what this class library does. It includes a working implementation for Mac OS X, but anyone with moderate JNI and Unix experience can create an implementation for other Unix platforms. It’s even possible to create implementations for non-Unix platforms, such as that operating system whose name starts with ‘Wind’.

Wrapping it all up…

ffmpegX a VCD, SVCD, CVD, VOB, DivX, XviD encoder for Mac OSX
Wraps all those nice Open Source audio and video encoders and players for MacOS X.
From the site:
ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the “hyper fast video and audio encoder” (http://ffmpeg.sf.net/), mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer (http://mjpeg.sf.net/MacOS/) and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support (http://sf.net/projects/mplayerosx).

Fighting for LPFM (Low Power FM) in the Cities

About the Prometheus Radio Project!
What is Prometheus all about:
To serve as a microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the non-commercial community broadcasters
To research and develop technical resources in anticipation of legalized micro-radio. Upon legalization, we will offer technical services to non-commercial micro-stations- equipment testing, frequency searching, submitting FCC applications, studio advice and so on
To sponsor and produce educational tours, conferences, events and literature on microradio and democratic media issues.
To serve as a public interest advocate on microradio issues, and to help facilitate public participation in the FCC rulemaking and legislative process.
To help start a regional micropower association, which could eventually serve as a self-regulating association for low power fm analagous to the ARRL for HAM radio. Until this is formed, we will perform some of its future functions, primarily performing a coordinating and secretarial role to facilitate communications among existing stations.

WiFi for anything and everything

Lantronix Device Networking Products – Embedded Device Servers – WiPort(tm)
From the site:
The WiPort is the most compact, integrated solution available to add 802.11b wireless networking to any edge device with a serial interface. Using our highly integrated hardware and software platform, you will add profit to your bottom line by significantly reducing product development time, risk, and cost.