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= Introduction =

Source codes, or rather algorithms and algebra, are the tools of the digital craftsman in the modern age with over a thousand years of mathematical theories behind them. Only for little more than a quarter of a century have they acted as software.
Software is a means of creating art and communicating. It is a metaliterature which defines how meaning can be carried and (re)produced by multiplying the possibilities of communication Just as software is a means of metacommunication, so it represents a ''Parole'', deriving its execution from a ''Langue'': the grammatical and linguistic universe of the code.
Although many see the source code as merely an obscure cryptogram, it has an indirect effect on the way we communicate and even more on the efficiency with which we do so.

'''Dyne.org''' appeared online in 2000 when Jaromil published his first
free and open source project: the ''Hasciicam'' software, setting
up a video stream made in letters playing from the website.
His creation has been widely appreciated both for its artistical value
and for letting possible to broadcast live video using old hardware
from a slow network connection.

Since then, more elaborated software has been created by Jaromil
and offered to the public, with the help of a growing community of
developers that joined efforts, configuring dyne.org as a software
atelier, a portal to Digital Creation and Media Art.

Ranging from radio makers, humanitarian organizations, video artists,
medical researchers, media activists and educators, a large amount of
people employed and redistributed dyne.org software worldwide, free
of charge.

Openness, knowledge sharing and freedom of creation: these have been
the philosophycal principles guiding the evolution of dyne.org, hosting
creations that have been conceptualized not for a profit, but for their
role within society.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NMAI) has focused since the year
2002 on the development of free and open source software.
In that respect a long lasting relationship was established with this
organisation resulting in a patronage for the dyne.org foundation

[ description of this history, from the begining up to the working together
with Jaromil ]


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With the definition of '''Free and Open Source Software''' we refer Our definition of '''Free and Open Source Software''' refers
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License, as published by the Free Software Foundation. In fact, free
has to be intended as "Libre", free as of speech, not simply gratis,
coming with all possibilities to redistribute, modify and adapt the
software without any fee. From now on we'll refer to it with the acronym
License and all other licenses considered Free by the Free Software Foundation. Free has to be
intended as "Libre", free as in free speech, not simply gratis.
Free software must let users redistribute, modify, and adapt software
without any fee.

From now on we'll refer to such software as acronym
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With '''dyne.org foundation''' we describe a non-profit organisation which
developes, employes and distributes FLOSS based software and hardware
solutions.
The '''dyne.org foundation''' is an organization which develops, uses and distributes FLOSS software and hardware solutions.
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With '''non-profit''' we specify that all the revenues are reinvested in research,
development, employement and distribution of dyne.org software and hardware products.
The Netherlands Media Art Institute garanties that the overhead never
will be more than 5% of the turn over.
By '''nonprofit''' we specify that all the revenues are reinvested in research,
development, use and distribution of dyne.org software and hardware products.

= Panorama =

Source code, or rather algorithms and algebra, is the tool of the digital craftsman with over a thousand years of mathematical theories behind it.
Only for little more than a quarter of a century it has acted as software.
Software is a means of creating art and communicating.
It is a metaliterature which defines how meaning can be carried and (re)produced by multiplying the possibilities of communication.

Just as software is a means of metacommunication,
so it represents a ''Parole'', deriving its execution from a ''Langue'': the grammatical and linguistic universe of the code.
Although many see the source code as merely an obscure cryptogram,
it has an indirect effect on the way we communicate and even more on the efficiency with which we do so.

Developing software means developing communication architectures
whose inhabitants have the right to access, recombine, evolve and adapt to their needs.

The growth of the Internet has made nonproprietary alternatives even more practical. What scholarly and popular writing alike characterize as a thing ("the Internet") is actually the name of a social condition: the fact that everyone in the network society is connected directly, without intermediaries, to everyone else.



= History =

'''Dyne.org''' appeared online in 2000 when Jaromil published his first
free and open source project: the ''Hasciicam'' software, which set up
a video stream made of letters and played it out from the website.
His creation has been widely appreciated both for its artistical value
and for making it possible to broadcast live video using old hardware
with a slow network connection.

Since then Jaromil, collaborating with a growing network of
inventors, has offered to the public newly written software for media
production, configuring dyne.org as a free software atelier,
a portal to Digital Creation and Media Art.

Many people, ranging from radio makers, humanitarian organizations, video artists,
medical researchers, media activists and educators, use and distribute dyne.org
software worldwide, free of charge, echoing the spirit of freedom of this autonomous initiative.

Openness, knowledge sharing and freedom of creation are the philosophycal
principles guiding the evolution of dyne.org, hosting creations that have
been conceptualized not for a profit, but for their role within society.

In 2003, Jaromil started collaborating with the Netherlands Media Art
Institute (NMAI) focusing on video streaming, developing a digital video
syncstarter and the vision mixer software FreeJ.

As a result, a relationship was established between NMAI and dyne.org, which
resulted in NMAI becoming a formal patron of the dyne.org foundation established in 2006.

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DYNE.ORG stands DYNE.ORG intends to promote the idea and practice of '''open source knowledge sharing within
civil society''' by fostering research, development, production
and distribution of FLOSS based solutions: by opening the participation to online and physical communities, leveraging
'''democratic and horizontal access to technology''' and lowering economic requirements for accessibility.
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To promote the idea and practice of '''open source knowledge sharing within
civil society''': by fostering research, development, production
and distribution of FLOSS based solutions.
To produce software that runs '''faster and better on old computers''',
as the possibility to recycle hardware is an important ecological issue
we claim legitimacy for all possible tweakings of electronical devices existing.
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To open the partecipation to online and onsite communities, leveraging
the '''democratical and horizontal access to technology''', lowering the economical
requisites to its accessibility.
To foster use of '''FLOSS in artistical creation''':
exploring new forms of expression and interaction,
disseminating new languages that can be freely adopted and modified,
and ensuring everyone the long term conservation of digital artworks.
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To foster employement of '''FLOSS in artistical creation''',
exploring new forms of expression and interaction and
insuring the long term conservation of digital artworks.
To insure '''sustainability of FLOSS development''' especially for nonprofits.
Since software a socially relevant media, it should not survive solely on the
basis of merchantability.
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To insure '''sustainability of FLOSS development''', also when
non-profiteable: being software a socially relevant media it should not
be ideated and mantained only on the basis of its merchantability. (n.fredd: specificare meglio; sustain the people and not the structures, that can be horizontal, self organizing and distributed)
= Achievements =
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To promote the idea of '''Net Ecology''': development should be aware of all
environmental issues connected to it and, as such, keep the research focused on
recycling technical equipment whenever possible, develop environmental friendly
systems and find ways to optimize the use of energy sources employed.

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comments and suggestions
 * To promote use of FLOSS in cultural settings as a cultural autonomous activity. The organization encourages the growth, development, and use of FLOSS for artistic and cultural uses, including teaching, divulgation, production and distribution of content in new and different forms. (n.fredd like this seems to me more general without being generic)
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= Strategic and operational goals =

To open up new not for profit markets and to create and distribute FLOSS
to a wider audience.
-----
comments and suggestions
 * To set a lab for floss development that will become a center of excellence in the field and that can sustain itself.

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== Strategic goals ==

To open up new not for profit markets

The community of FLOSS users still consists mostly of insiders,
while the potential of the developed software has reached a state of
high compatibility with license based programs.

To enforce general customers to make use of FLOSS we want to
offer easy to use packages of applications at affordable prices that
help sustaining their development.

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comments and suggestions
 * n.fredd::: Put in this way is market centered, it wants to be no-profit but uses the logic of profit. MArket is one of the abstraction from society we must fight. Let's think on how to re-write this in terms of welfare. Not to mention that a non profit market is a contadiction in terms. Well, it may work for crooks or for propaganda, but i doubt that this angle helps setting the record straight.
 * (n.fredd: mi sembra che questo concerna piu' i mezzi degli obbiettivi. Dobbiamo fare due conti...)
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== Operational goals ==

To create and distribute FLOSS to a wider audience.

To guarantee the continuity of FLOSS creation and development we have
to generate resources: money, people, infrastructure and knowledge.

To distribute the software we have to create communication strategies,
attractive products, marketing and distribution channels.



= products and combinations of markets (PCM's) =

== Products ==

=== Production of open source software ===

In the ArtLab - the research centre of the Netherlands Media Art
Institute (NMAI) - a long term development program for open source
software will be established and connected with the Artists in
Residence program. This program will be defined by the dyne.org
Foundation and the NMAI and financed by both partners.

(N. fredd: add: according to the following guidelines...)

=== Release of software - free of license ===

Conform to the protocol of FLOSS, the software developed will be made
available online with its entire sourcecode.

Next to it, compilations of open source software will brought together
on hardware (CD-ROM, computer boxes etc.) as well offered as plug
and play products and ad-hoc setups.
To compile, produce and distribute the hardware
commercial calculations will be charged. The risk and profit is divided
between both partners.
(N. fredd: check: this has to be sustainable. in NMAI puts up structure, like space, machinery, pr and whatever, who is putting up cash? How? Project based? What about writing proposal up for subsidies at local/national/international level? Who is going to do this? we must elaborate this aspect, no need to do it in the statute, but it has to be clear...)

The profit has by both to be reinvested in research and development,
production and distribution and is excluded from any private profit.
(n.fredd: this formula is not legally clear. I explain to you why when we meet).


=== Donor and Patron membership program ===

The foundation will offer a Donor program for individuals and
a Patron program for organizations willing to financially
support the development of free software.



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this document is confidential.

board:
 * Denis "jaromil" Rojo
 * Heiner Hostappels
 * Robert De Geuss
After 5 years of its existance, dyne.org distributed an operating system that has been printed in more than 500.000 copies around the world (rough estimation on downloads and magazine publications), while every day almost 5000 people hits our websites. In 2005 [[http://dynebolic.org|dyne:bolic]] has been elected in the top 10 open source projects of the year.

Definitions of terms

Our definition of Free and Open Source Software refers to all software licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License and all other licenses considered Free by the Free Software Foundation. Free has to be intended as "Libre", free as in free speech, not simply gratis. Free software must let users redistribute, modify, and adapt software without any fee.

From now on we'll refer to such software as acronym FLOSS (free libre open source software).

FLOSS implies 4 fundamental freedoms:

  • The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
  • The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.
  • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
  • The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

The dyne.org foundation is an organization which develops, uses and distributes FLOSS software and hardware solutions.

By nonprofit we specify that all the revenues are reinvested in research, development, use and distribution of dyne.org software and hardware products.

Panorama

Source code, or rather algorithms and algebra, is the tool of the digital craftsman with over a thousand years of mathematical theories behind it. Only for little more than a quarter of a century it has acted as software. Software is a means of creating art and communicating. It is a metaliterature which defines how meaning can be carried and (re)produced by multiplying the possibilities of communication.

Just as software is a means of metacommunication, so it represents a Parole, deriving its execution from a Langue: the grammatical and linguistic universe of the code. Although many see the source code as merely an obscure cryptogram, it has an indirect effect on the way we communicate and even more on the efficiency with which we do so.

Developing software means developing communication architectures whose inhabitants have the right to access, recombine, evolve and adapt to their needs.

The growth of the Internet has made nonproprietary alternatives even more practical. What scholarly and popular writing alike characterize as a thing ("the Internet") is actually the name of a social condition: the fact that everyone in the network society is connected directly, without intermediaries, to everyone else.

History

Dyne.org appeared online in 2000 when Jaromil published his first free and open source project: the Hasciicam software, which set up a video stream made of letters and played it out from the website. His creation has been widely appreciated both for its artistical value and for making it possible to broadcast live video using old hardware with a slow network connection.

Since then Jaromil, collaborating with a growing network of inventors, has offered to the public newly written software for media production, configuring dyne.org as a free software atelier, a portal to Digital Creation and Media Art.

Many people, ranging from radio makers, humanitarian organizations, video artists, medical researchers, media activists and educators, use and distribute dyne.org software worldwide, free of charge, echoing the spirit of freedom of this autonomous initiative.

Openness, knowledge sharing and freedom of creation are the philosophycal principles guiding the evolution of dyne.org, hosting creations that have been conceptualized not for a profit, but for their role within society.

In 2003, Jaromil started collaborating with the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NMAI) focusing on video streaming, developing a digital video syncstarter and the vision mixer software FreeJ.

As a result, a relationship was established between NMAI and dyne.org, which resulted in NMAI becoming a formal patron of the dyne.org foundation established in 2006.

Mission Statement

DYNE.ORG intends to promote the idea and practice of open source knowledge sharing within civil society by fostering research, development, production and distribution of FLOSS based solutions: by opening the participation to online and physical communities, leveraging democratic and horizontal access to technology and lowering economic requirements for accessibility.

To produce software that runs faster and better on old computers, as the possibility to recycle hardware is an important ecological issue we claim legitimacy for all possible tweakings of electronical devices existing.

To foster use of FLOSS in artistical creation: exploring new forms of expression and interaction, disseminating new languages that can be freely adopted and modified, and ensuring everyone the long term conservation of digital artworks.

To insure sustainability of FLOSS development especially for nonprofits. Since software a socially relevant media, it should not survive solely on the basis of merchantability.

Achievements

After 5 years of its existance, dyne.org distributed an operating system that has been printed in more than 500.000 copies around the world (rough estimation on downloads and magazine publications), while every day almost 5000 people hits our websites. In 2005 dyne:bolic has been elected in the top 10 open source projects of the year.

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