OpenLab ESEV: New Adventures in Software Development

25 to 29 of July 2012
OpenLab ESEV: new adventures in software development

Nelson A. F. Gonalves Escola Superior de Educao e CI&DETS Instituto Politcnico de Viseu (Portugal) Luis Carvalheiro Escola Superior de Educao Instituto Politcnico de Viseu (Portugal) Maria P. Figueiredo Escola Superior de Educao e CI&DETS Instituto Politcnico de Viseu (Portugal)
www.esev.ipv.pt/openlab
What is OpenLab ESEV?
Project of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseus School of Education (ESE Viseu)
Intro & context 1
that aims to promote, foster and support the use of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS), Free file formats and more flexible copyright licenses for creative and educational purposes.
Key areas of action:

Dissemination, Training, Support, and Production.
What is Free Software?
To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. (RMS) Freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3).
Background and some context information
ESEV is a public institution of higher education, situated in Viseu (northern-center of Portugal), and was founded in 1983 as a teacher education institution. Currently, it has over 1500 students and 105 teachers and offers nine undergraduate and 13 Master's programs, most of them related to education (i.e. teacher education, social work, environmental education) but also including cultural animation, arts and multimedia, sports, media and advertising and public relations OpenLab emerged in an environment characterized by... the lack of knowledge of the existing Libre alternatives. work habits exclusively built around proprietary software.
Since the end of 2009... Dissemination
Since the end of 2009... Training
Since the end of 2009... Support
Since the end of 2009... Production
Since the end of 2009... Production
http://nafergo.intervir.net/
StudiozCollabPress
How to setup a web-based tool to support short movies projects management and collaboration under 10 minutes and for free? Why?
Efficiency (time, tasks and group management) and Educational purposes (organization and project management principles, project and workflow/pipeline overview). Proprietary solutions (Shotgun or Alienbrain): expensive, complicated installation/setup, timeconsuming learning curve and... proprietary. Free/Open solutions (Helga, Stalker or OpenPipeline): not yet available to the public, unfinished (not usable), software dependent.
StudiozCollabPress
How?
From scratch or on the shoulders of giants? WordPress + CollabPress
The Factory http://thefactory.animaxionstudioz.com/ The End Of Capitalism http://teoc.animaxionstudioz.com/
Press to start!
Another useful plugin for dashboard messages
Using other plugin you can rename to... Administrator Director Artist ...
StudiozCollabPress
And now?
September/October 2012: Setup our own server (Debian) and use SCP to support several students projects. 2013: Bug fixing and minor tweaks, task lists (?), file hosting integration (?).
Download & News
http://forge.animaxionstudioz.com http://www.esev.ipv.pt/openlab
Ottographer
A webcam time-lapse tool for operating systems based on GNU/Linux Debian & Ubuntu. Why?
Teacher-student needed for a science education project for Primary School. Simple (kids can do it, teachers can do it), fast (couple of minutes & a few clicks), cheap (no software license fees, no need for expensive hardware) way to create time-lapses. Empowerment (Creating our own tools) & Free Software coding is fun! Dr. John Ott
Ottographer
How?
Ottographer is a bash script that depends on several applications and libraries available for GNU/Linux: ffmpeg, mplayer, x264, xawtv, v4l2ucp and v4l-utils. A simple GUI (Zenity) guides the user through the process of setting up the webcam, capture interval, project folder and resolution.
Ottographer
And now?
Deploy the application through teacher education programs (Kindergarden and Primary School). Use it at our school for different (education and art) projects. Documentation: tutorials and lesson plans (science & arts education).
Download & News
http://forge.animaxionstudioz.com http://www.esev.ipv.pt/openlab
What we've learned and where we're going to...

Final thoughts
OpenLab ESEV (+ animaXion studioz) animation project Refine our Free Animation pipeline Explore new possibilities: Videogame for Android? VFX with Camera/object tracking? Continue bash scripting (image/movie converter) & start Python group (Blender addons). Documentation!
OpenLab ESEV exists within a portuguese public institution of higher education. Formative and ethical dimensions of our intervention are particularly important. Ethics matter!
Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price. Using Free Software is a statement about the world we live in and how we choose to live in it.

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25 to 29 of July 2012

OpenLab ESEV: new adventures in software development

What is OpenLab ESEV?

Project of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseus School of Education (ESE Viseu)

Intro & context 1

Key areas of action:

What is Free Software?

Background and some context information

Since the end of 2009... Dissemination

Since the end of 2009... Training

Since the end of 2009... Support

Since the end of 2009... Production

Since the end of 2009... Production

From scratch or on the shoulders of giants? WordPress + CollabPress

The Factory http://thefactory.animaxionstudioz.com/ The End Of Capitalism http://teoc.animaxionstudioz.com/

Another useful plugin for dashboard messages

Download & News

Download & News

What we've learned and where we're going to...

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