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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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