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Scousers mount open source festival
THE NORTHERN city of Liverpool is to hold an Open Source City festival.
The city that give us the Beatles and some Belgian beetrooty mix known as Scouse is going all open saucey.
An outfit called Open Source City is teaming up with other oufits calkled Logofolly and Soundnetwork to mount "an exciting collaboration bringing a micro-festival of high-tech art and music to Liverpool, as part of the European Capital of Culture."
A programme of "art, workshops, masterclasses, talks and concerts will shed light on the growing impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software "FLOSS" on the creative practices of today, in particular in media art and music," it says here.
Artists and speakers involved include goto10, Access Space, Polytechnic, Simon Blackmore, Tom Chance, Mediashed and 64 Studio. Na, we've never heard of 'em either.
FLOSS apparently "offers opportunities to users, and developers at every skill level to participate in the creative process, starting from the writing of code all the way up to the final mix of your masterpiece. These are tools that have the power to bring people together through creativity, collaboration, knowledge sharing and, importantly, technology." Clam down!
The festival runs from 20 -22 June Mello in the heart of Liverpool's creative quarter, which is in Slater St, apparently. µ
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European Capital of Culture?
Liverpool?

(shakes head...next thing ya know, Bucharest will be proclaimed the European Financial Capital....Poor London)

Methinks the concept of a united Europe is beginning to melt minds over there...
I've had a close encounter with 
these scouser flying saucer open people.
Many are all about showing where they've been probed, and I don't have any desire to go to the moon! I imagine they could use a bit of FLOSS there. Talk about making way for global warming and reducing carbon buttprints. Is that a tattoo? or a cropcircle!

"Liverpool, UK - 21 May 2008: Archaeologists at the University of Liverpool are investigating whether Stonehenge could have been designed using no more than simple numeracy, a piece of rope and the sun's shadow."
A piece of FLOSS rope, surely.

I'm Only Here For The Party!

Summer Soltice Party for druids. I hope their party is a banging one!

For three days every summer, the city of Liverpool is transformed into a huge karaoke machine. Even more so now that it is the {UFO} European Capital of Culture and triffic. 
Some of the "workshops" sound downright sandalous: 
"Video Sniffin" (yeah right!)
"Controlling SuperCollider in 3 Dimensions" (ho ho, party on dudes!)

Portaloo - I was defeated, you won the war.

Oh and I'm sure that there will be Harry Potter Pudlians about too. No wander. They're as mad as caped zeros at an ice bar!

Since I don't have the cards to get in meself, let's hope we all have a world to wake up to the next morning.

"What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!" 
whiskyinnis.jar - all the open sauce wheeze you wheeze.

Happy Summer of Love, everyone!-)
and thank you for allowing me to indulge my obnoxious fancy.
Apologies. It's the steroids talking.
Mad Cow Steroids.
I have heard of one of them... 64 Studio is a Debian Linux distro for musicians and artists.

It comes bundled with a Digital Audio Workstation and drum machines etc, all setup and ready to go out of the box. 

Also uses the real time Low-Latency Kernel for responsiveness.