Ben Fry on Processing, David Cuartielles on Arduino, and much, much more:

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O P E N

UC Digital Arts Research Network
Open Source Sound, Image, and Electronics

9,10 February 2007
@ EDA, Broad Arts Center, UCLA

A gathering for open source users, advocates, and developers.

Symposium (Friday):
Cory Doctorow - USC, Boing Boing
Greg Niemeyer - UC Berkeley
David Cuartielles - Arduino.cc, K3 Malmo
Beatriz da Costa - UC Irvine
Xavier Amatriain - UC Santa Barbara, MATi, CREATE
Michael Zbyszynski - UC Berkeley, CNMAT
Ben Fry - Processing.org, Carnegie Mellon
Robert Nideffer - UC Irvine

Workshops (Saturday):
Processing - Ben Fry
Arduino - David Cuartielles
PD - August Black


The event is free and open to the public.

For more information visit:
http://ucdarnet.org/projects/OPEN/

Please register here:
http://ucdarnet.org/projects/OPEN/registration.php


All lectures take place in the EDA, Broad Art Center, 240 Charles E.
Young Drive, Room 1250 Los Angeles, CA 90095
Directions: http://dma.ucla.edu/info/directions.php

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Also, in association with O P E N:

Regents' Lecturer: Nicholas Negroponte
Eliminating Poverty by Learning Learning

February 8, 2007, 6:00pm

Common practice in bridging the so-called "digital divide" in developing
nations is to build computer labs in schools and teach children WORD and
EXCEL thirty minutes a week. This is misguided. Children should not learn productivity software suited for office workers. They should make things, they should communicate, they should explore the Internet. In short, they should learn learning, which includes the passion to learn.

The One Laptop per Child project is guided by the belief that you can
eliminate poverty with education. It aims to engage children in their own education as well as peer-to-peer learning, by equipping every child with a connected laptop with features you have never dreamed of. By doing this globally, at a very large scale, and as a non-profit association, the birth of the $100 laptop is feasible. At least six countries, three continents and five million children will be involved in the launch.

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O P E N  is a joint program of the UC Digital Arts Research
Network and the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA.