Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Encouraging libraries to use free software

2016-02-17 Thread Isaac David
Hi Esteban, This sounds like a project for the Library Freedom Project. They participated last year in the Libreplanet conference.

[libreplanet-discuss] Encouraging libraries to use free software

2016-02-17 Thread Esteban Enrique
I am a Boston resident and I love to visit the Boston Public Library, the first public library in the United States. It has been my home recently since it is very quiet and has a great atmosphere. But more importantly, this is a place for the public to go and share books with each other and the lib

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free Software Games for babies

2016-02-17 Thread Andres
El Wed, 17 de Feb 2016 a las 7:32 AM, Fabio Pesari escribió: On 02/17/2016 01:14 AM, Lori Nagel wrote: Hi, I have a just turned 2 year old and I would like to find some simple press any key game geared for babies and young toddlers that are free (as in freedom) software. I tried a web se

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free Software Games for babies

2016-02-17 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 17/02/16 08:54, Fabio Pesari wrote: > On 02/17/2016 08:46 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> There is nothing wrong with giving non-free products to children at that >> age. >> >> I once saw a baby, probably about 1 year old, pick up his mother's >> iphone from a table in a restaurant and the way

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Free Software Games for babies

2016-02-17 Thread Thomas Harding
Maybe "gcompris", which is a framework and a set of educational games designed to be easily extended. Le 17 février 2016 01:14:37 GMT+01:00, Lori Nagel a écrit : >Hi, I have a just turned 2 year old and I would like to find some >simple press any key game geared for babies and young toddlers t

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Liberating Freesound.org

2016-02-17 Thread Aaron Wolf
Just a brief note: I'm a musician and music teacher and have found the strangeness with these issues with FreeSound enough that it discouraged me from using and promoting it. Along the lines of "hmm, this looks awesome! Oh, NC hmm… well, oh wait, people have to log in? Well, okay this is still neat

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Liberating Freesound.org

2016-02-17 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 02/17/2016 03:58 PM, Bram de Jong wrote: > Hi Fabio, Hi Bram, > This is correct and we do it for a few reasons. The biggest reason is > that Freesound is run by the Music Technology Group ( > http://www.mtg.upf.edu ) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra which uses > all the data in Freesound for re

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Liberating Freesound.org

2016-02-17 Thread Bram de Jong
Hi Fabio, Interesting mail, I'll reply in-line. On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Fabio Pesari wrote: > As someone who wanted to make videogames back in the days, I came across > Freesound.org, which is a helpful resource for finding audio samples Cool! > but had (and still has) the following

[libreplanet-discuss] Liberating Freesound.org

2016-02-17 Thread Fabio Pesari
As someone who wanted to make videogames back in the days, I came across Freesound.org, which is a helpful resource for finding audio samples but had (and still has) the following problems: 1. Users can't download any sounds without logging in 2. It isn't really free as in freedom, since many fil