Yes, I figured there were some in Canada too! Thanks for that info. I didn't mean to exclude Canadian users at all from that question; I was just wondering if this was a phenomenon that is or is not happening in the United States (or Japan, mostly out of curiosity - I don't live there). I would like to become involved with something like this after I'm out of school, so I'm sort of looking around a bit now...

Kevin

On 8/9/06, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Kevin McCoy wrote:

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I've been enjoying looking around the sites of different groups/events in Europe that have formed around free software (Pd in particular), like APO33, OpenLab, goto10, etc... are there any that are operating in the U.S.? I just haven't come across any yet.

What about CANADA ?

Artengine (Ottawa/Gatineau) Vidéographe (Montréal) Studio XX (Montréal) Interaccess (Toronto)

... are artist-run centres that have not been formed around free software and/or Pd, but have come to sympathise a lot. All of them organise Pd workshops once in a while. Vidéographe organises the biggest Pd workshops in the world (that I heard about; goto10 comes close). This brings me to my next point:

PureData Convention 2007 *will* be in Montréal.

and then, Montréal has got pretty much the biggest Pd user group meetings in the world, apart from Graz or not, depending on how it's measured.

_ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju | Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada

We have dorkbot meetings here in Chicago; PD, supercollider, and Processing type things have been presented before. In fact I might present something like "How to VJ with Pure Data and GEM" in the very near future.

However, anything that uses electricity is on topic for dorkbot - so I suspect that whether "free software" is covered, will really depend on what people in a given area are interested in. Some dorkbot meetings focus more on hardware and circuit bending and the like...

~David

On 8/9/06, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:

Hallo, Kevin McCoy hat gesagt: // Kevin McCoy wrote:

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I've been enjoying looking around the sites of different groups/events in Europe that have formed around free software (Pd in particular), like APO33, OpenLab, goto10, etc... are there any that are operating in the U.S.? I just haven't come across any yet.

dorkbot was founden in the US AFAIK, and it seems to share a similar approach with many of the mentioned organisations. At least the whole Pd School crowd attended the London dorkbot two weeks ago as well.

Ciao

Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

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