We're moving off this platform to a new home on Wednesday night. The URL for the forum ( http://forum.processing.org) will remain the same, but it will point to the new software. This will be the 3rd time we've rebooted the Processing Forum, previously for the Beta and 1.0 releases. Be believe this is good in the long term, but often difficult at the start. Like with the previous three forums, the current forum will be archived so the discussions and knowledge is not lost. So, hopefully we'll see you in the new software soon. Thanks for Philippe and Florian for making this transition happen. We've put a strong effort into making the new forum great; we hope you enjoy it.

With a group of co-authors, I just published a book titled 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. You can download a PDF of the book from the 10PRINT.org website. You can see photos of the book on Flickr. Here's a description:

This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text—in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources—that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.

Here's the challenge—read through the chapter REM VARIATIONS IN PROCESSING and create your own interpretations of this one-line BASIC program. Please post links, code, and thoughts there.

We're starting to plan events for the 10th anniversary of Processing from 16-18 September 2011. We'll post more information here as things are decided. If you have ideas or suggestions, please add to this Topic.

We've kicked off our annual t-shirt fundraiser with two new shirts available until 15 October 2010. You can browse the new designs in the Shop and at our partner Wire & Twine.

All profits support Processing development! Please help support Processing.

This is a perfect award for work with Processing.js. transmediale says:

transmediale in collaboration with Mozilla have announced the creation of the new Open Web Award 2011 a special third platform for creative excellence alongside the transmediale Award 2011 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011.

The transmediale Open Web Award is a new platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that:
- are on the web and about the web
- use open and free technology
- incite participation and/or collaboration

They can be critical, celebratory or both. Projects should have the potential to demonstrate and/or objectively critique the potential of open web issues, and those employing the creative use of HTML5 and other developing 'open' technologies will be given specific consideration. The point is to play with both the idea and materiality of the (open) web in ways that spark new thinking and practice.

The winner(s) of the Open Web Award 2011 will receive a total prize of 5000 EUR, and be given the opportunity to have 'supported' status on Drumbeat. Beyond the specific Open Web Award criteria, the same rules, conditions and application procedures apply as the transmediale Award 2011.

> transmediale.de/en/awards2011

The Deadline for Entries for the transmediale Open Web Award 2011 is also July 31, 2010 (2400 CEST / UST+2)

Welcome to the new Processing Forum. We've re-organized a lot of the Processing reference and community materials last week and there's more to come. This forum is a change that we're extremely excited about and it fits into the plans for the new Processing wiki, the upcoming Processing blog, and recent move of the code to Google Code. We see these four pieces fitting together as follows:

Processing Forum
The forum is the place where things begin and discussions are held. It's a place for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. We're excited to start fresh (a little late spring cleaning) so we're not porting over the previous content or user accounts. The previous two Processing forums (one for the software from beta to 1.0 and one for the alpha software) will be archived as HTML pages and will remain available. The Processing community has held some amazing discussions over the years and we want that knowledge to remain publicly available.

Processing Wiki
The wiki holds the technical documentation and community-generated code examples and tutorials. The best discussions from the forum will hopefully be edited and documented on the wiki as examples and tutorials for easy reference and updates.

Processing Blog
The blog is for announcements from the Processing developers. It's a one-way communication channel used for new releases and changes to the software. The announcements that used to be made through the Processing Discourse Forum will now go through the blog.

Processing on Google Code
This is the active resource for the SVN code repository, source browsing, and bug tracking. All bugs reports and suggestions for the software will now be handled through this site.

The main Processing website will remain the place for the exhibition, code reference, tutorials, and the software download. The main website is the public face of the project, while the work and innovation happens on the forum and wiki.