Niyam Bhushan

FOSS Digital Creativity as a Profession

How to earn your bread butter tamatar as a graphic design and multimedia professional.

• a) Career opportunities with FOSS as a professional way of life.
• b) A look at the disciplines, FOSS tools, and skills you require.
• c) Your professional approach and orientation. The strong value-systems you need to inculcate.
• d) The money you make and business models around your professional skills.
• e) How to use the professional challenges you will face, to build your character.
• f) How you can make a dent in the universe and not pay insurance.
• f) Live free, die hard.

(Workshop) Digitally Sound

A hands-on overview of how ubuntustudio gives you a professional sound studio setup. How anyone can design sounds, set up drums and percussion, edit sound, produce music, handle post-processing, and author your demo audio cd. a brief overview of software tools demoed: alsa, jack, audacity, hydrogen, ardour2, , jamin, ladspa, k3b. this list is partial.

the talk ends with a 5-minute overview of publishing under a cc or similar license.

-- AndrewLynn - 02 Nov 2007