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This project started life as an artwork installation at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Manukau City. Turning drawings on paper into video games, Douglas Bagnall has released Te Tuhi under the GPL and partially ported it to the One Laptop Per Child XO platform. While the project is still a work in progress, it demonstrates to kids of all ages a whole new way to interact and understand the computer. Using Creative Commons sounds, open source tools and running on Linux, Te Tuhi adds to Douglas' portfolio of creative uses of free software.
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Australian Symposium on ECMA-376 - December 14th
Nice to see our Australian cousins getting up to speed on this one. The Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre is hosting a symposium to which Standards Australia and a number of other luminaries are invited to. I believe one of the invitees represented NZOSS in the New Zealand equivalent event a few months ago. Should be an interesting discussion even though the registration for the ISO BRM will have closed by then...
Pia Waugh is also asking for help to find some documents on her blog. Hopefully someone will be able to provide the information she needs.
And yes, I still choke on associating the word 'open' with this attempt to legitimise a proprietary vendor format as an International Standard that even the proposer won't commit to. The process being used to ram this through may be 'correct' within the ISO committee rules but that doesn't make it right.
We have an opportunity to get this mess sorted to the mutual benefit of everyone concerned. Let's make sure that it is.