Hello to any readers of this post. I am a graduate student in Media Studies at The New School University in New York. I am currently working on a paper about the ideology, politics, and economics of Free/Open Source Software. I am using Processing as a case study/model and was looking for any general feedback to these inquiries.

1. Would you use processing as a tool if it was not open source.

2. Does the openness of the software effect the way in which you approach the work created using processing.

3. As artists/creative types do you find yourselves drawn to open source tools due political, cultural, or economic beliefs.

Any feedback would be appreciated, nothing is being quoted or cited for the paper, but a general sense of a community's identity for processing would be beneficial. Feel free to reply to the post, message me, or email me at immaterial.labour@gmail.com. Thanks in advance to any responders!- Patrick

pjc,

i recommend writing direct emails to a number of processing users that you find through this board, the exhibition, flickr, del.icio.us, etc. i'm not sure how many people will stumble across this post or if they will be representative of the diversity of processing users.

please share the paper with us!  

casey