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MAKE ART 2009
What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art
make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration
of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.
The fourth edition of
make art - What The Fork?! distributed and
open practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR),
from the 7th to the 13th of December 2009.
make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an
exhibition, focused on the encounter between digital art and free
software.
This year
make art focuses on distributed and open practices in
FLOSS art.
'What the fork?!' is about decentralisation. Forking is
the new black. Forking, copying the source code of a project and
continuing work on the copy instead of the original, used to have a
bad reputation. It would split a project and its developer community
in pieces, leading to different, often incompatible, projects.
Wasted effort, rivalry and developer fights were all associated
concepts. This is history. Forking a project with the intention to
compete with it is another story, but the freedom to fork enables
quick implementation of features and customization, bypassing
acquiring committer status, bugfix or feature request protocol,
working in a distributed way, together with others but not necessarily
towards one goal, working from one source, cross-fertilising,
inspiring, copying, patching, improving, experimenting, changing
direction, and merging. This practice is boosted by decentralised
software development tools, such as Darcs, Mercurial and Git. It's
not about quick hacks, but about creating room to experiment, letting
go of the one working copy and creating a multiplicity of ideas.
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our:
2008,
2007 and
2006 editions.
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