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March 2008

DIN 4

March 31st, 2008 · Tags: · · · · 6 Comments

Pandora’s Standardised Box Kommando OSP Pierre and Harrisson spent a few days this February in Berlin to explore the DIN project further. http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=10

OSP on the Radio

March 27th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · Comments Off on OSP on the Radio

OSP va parler dans le poste ce mercredi 2 avril, 19:00 – 20:30, sur radio Panik (il y a du stream), 105.4 fm a Bruxelles. dans l’émission “le Libre en Questions” Bonne écoute!

Summer of Code / Season of Usability

March 20th, 2008 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Summer of Code / Season of Usability

Scribus is included in this year’s Google Summer of Code and now looking for contributions in the form of proposals and feedback to already formulated ideas: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GsoC_2008_Ideas Scribus is also actively looking for student applications: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GsoC_2008_Example_proposal From the Gnome Usability list: “Season of Usability is a series of mentored student projects to encourage students of […]

OSP parle à l’ERG, round 2

March 18th, 2008 · Tags: · Comments Off on OSP parle à l’ERG, round 2

Thanks to ERG and Marc Wathieu, OSP will perform friday 11th of April, during Open Course event. http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1138 OSP Print Party 11/04 14:00 – 17:00 Erg (École de Recherche Graphique) 87, rue du page – 1050 Bruxelles. Supposed to be open to the public. In French, but multi-lingual pluggin installed.

Mixed Sources: Issue Magazine

March 13th, 2008 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Mixed Sources: Issue Magazine

Issue Magazine launch: Friday March 21 18:00 – 19:30 Log on via: http://mixedsources.tk/ For the launch of Issue Magazine, Stéphanie Vilayphiou and Alexandre Leray are hosting an on line round table with Arie Altena, Jouke Kleerebezem and Harrisson.

Multiple pages with (linked) boxes in Scribus

March 12th, 2008 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Multiple pages with (linked) boxes in Scribus

Besides pagenumbers, Scribus masterpages can currently only hold static elements. Ivan Monroy Lopez wrote us a very handy python script which puts as many linked or unlinked text boxes on as many pages you want. You can also run the script multiple times… measurements.py template.py

The situation looks very bright

March 12th, 2008 · Tags: · Comments Off on The situation looks very bright

In the summer of 1997, the NLNet Foundation sold its commercialized internet provision activities to UUNET (the internet subsidiary of WorldCom). This created a fund from which the foundation now supports activities that provide network technology to the community and keep outcomes in the “public domain”. NLnet has picked Identity, Privacy & Presence and Open […]

Quadri in Krita

March 11th, 2008 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Quadri in Krita

“Why do you bother with complicated stuff to convert images in CYMK?” asked Loic Vanderstichelen the other night “Use Krita!” And it works! It even manages 16 bits tif! Now we know! 😉

OSP parle à l’ERG

March 5th, 2008 · Tags: · 3 Comments

Répondant à l’invitation du cours de Typographie de Mme M.C. Lambert, OSP présentera des outils open source s’inscrivant dans la chaine graphique. Cette petite conférence abordera les problématiques de la typographie ouverte, ainsi qu’une présentation de nos recherches en fontes publiques, comme le DIN Project. Cela se passera ce vendredi 7 mars 2008 à l’ERG, […]