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This week we are deep in OSS development, preparing Museum Editions Announcement, making updates to the Zakros website, preparing for the OSS Residency and readying the FORUM for launch. Please let me

This is a big week for our various projects, with major updates for 3SNtv, Open Source Studio and more happening! For OSS, this week is particularly important for testing and feedback. Please, through

3SNtv is the signal after the empire loses control of the transmitter. It is television returned from the dead—not restored, not remembered, not embalmed in nostalgia, but cracked open and flooded wit

I can't over stress the importance of communication in the creative process, it's at the center of the performing arts. OSS simply changes the paradigm of how artists work and exchange ideas with othe

We are getting very close to the fall season and here is a strategy for the upcoming From the Bunker announcements. September 16 — “What's Coming from the Bunker” We have spent the year building. This

This week's meetings TT Meeting: Friday 11, 9AM ET OSS Meeting: Friday 11, 1PM ET Please let me know in the page comments or email if I am missing any other team meetings this week. Projects in this A

Randall, Alberto, and I met on Monday, August 31 to start the planning and development of the Discourse forum for Zakros. At the moment, we're thinking about starting with 2 public categories - Zakros

Using this post to write down some of the things we want to achieve with discourse. I started some initial restyling and getting familiar with Discourse's settings. https://zakros.discourse.group 1. H

In the FORUM Document, section 4 describes Single Sign-on and DNS that is intended for Nick: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17MfdCFuAqyybD5S-VkC7DSunrugWi2rsTa9Zdmn8ffA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.fv53

Hello everyone, this is your Monday morning wake up call!! Today we begin a four-week discovery with two principal vendors, Bridge Digital and WebRTC.ventures, as well as several other advisors, artis

OSS Prototype Update The Navigation Change, simplified Cohort Progress In progress design of the Cohort Page. Had a good conversation with Randall about the usability of the contextual tool bar based

OSS Editor Demo + App Navigation Showcase I built a demo to showcase a revised page-authoring experience, a new app navigation framework, and an updated UI style. This demo is meant to be a jumping-of

Zakros is developing the next phase of the Third Space Network—including an advanced AWS architecture for distributed performance, artistic collaboration, and practice-based research. Beginning August

The Book of Zakros and Kaliope: Entering the Palace We are developing the Book of Zakros as the mythological entrance to the Zakros InterArts website. Rather than compressing nearly forty years of his

How OSS works A short tour of everything on this site! 1. The map Sidebar itemWhat it isDashboardYour site, your draftsExploreDirectory of cohorts and artistsFeedEveryone's newest published pagesActiv

Quick Dashboard Mockup Dashboard should feel like a landing point that gets the user up to speed with what they should know, and easily connect them to the most important features. Here's a very quick

It's a fascinating idea to transpose audio granulation into video. If we think about it this way, there are not many differences between the two media. Audio is a temporal phenomenon, and while a sing

Studio Features for Phase 2: Communication & Sharing Highlighted communication & collaboration touchpoints across the Studio surface Framing For this post, I am outlining a list of features within the

For OSS to work, it needs to be collaborative, and not just structurally or functionally, but collaborative in the social sense of the word. We all need to work together. Now that we are at this criti

Platform Architecture Feature Areas, Functions & Relationships Top-Level Information Architecture: Structure & Design Philosophy This post documents a proposed structure for OSS's top-level feature ar

OPEN SOURCE STUDIO Logo Exploration The Open Source Studio logo draws from Our World, the landmark international television broadcast transmitted on June 25, 1967. Connecting audiences across multiple

We have setup categories that are specific to our individual contributions to OSS, or Zakros at large (see below). You can consider these as lanes we can work within, although not exclusively because

I’m posting an image of the sun rising over Karpathos and thinking that this is an apt reference to the rise of Zakros OSS. Kudos to Randall, Nick, and Jack for moving OSS forward. Now I guess it’s ti

Greetings from Greece, where I’m spending part of our vacation reading The Iliad and thinking about how stories, ideas, and human experiences travel across time and distance. I’m also beginning to ima

Some of you may be questioning why are going to all this trouble to create yet another online posting platform? Simple, OSS is intended to open up more advanced techniques for communicationa and colla

Hello and Greetings and Welcome to the OSS Zakros Cohort Family! We are now not just talking about OSS, we are using it, we are living it. This means email is now retired and we are moving on to the b

You can read my post below. You can also listen to an audio recording of a portion of it. Used ElevenLabs.... Onboarding the OSS external cohort will be immensely helpful for all of us. It’s going to

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller This is the key message behind Projec