ON2: Where new platforms and radio collide
Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 11:40am. #
You’ve probably spotted that my subtitle for this blog is “where new platforms and radio collide”. It seems to me that if you put together software developers and radio practitioners, you could significantly reboot radio for the connected generation.
We went some way towards managing this with Radio at the Edge, the (now sadly defunct) Radio Academy conference. But, in spite of it being “on the list” for a couple of years, we failed to quite manage to get hackers next to radio people.
It’s with quite a lot of excitement, therefore, that I read the following press release about “ON2: Test Signals”, an event in Berlin in October, which I copy/paste below.
Will you be there?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25th 2010, BERLIN. Dates for “ON2: Test Signals”, which will bring together software developers and radio practitioners to demonstrate, discuss and develop new ways of applying software to radio, have been announced. ON2 will take place from Friday 22 October – Sun 24 October in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany.
“Far from killing radio, the internet is actually behind a remarkable resurgence,” says festival producer Adam Thomas from Sourcefabric, the not-for-profit organisation responsible for the leading open source radio software Campcaster. “We’re seeing an increasing number of community and non-commercial stations use software and the internet in hugely innovative ways to boost listener figures across all platforms.”
Two such stations, reboot.fm, Berlin’s free cultural radio station and user-generated radio pioneers Open Broadcast from Switzerland, are official partners of the festival.
Also appearing at the festival will be radio futurologist James Cridland, Mozilla Drumbeat’s Henrik Moltke, and representatives from Creative Commons, Unikom, Global Radio, RadioDNS, newthinking, Mekong ICT and Radio Aporee. Alongside many other radio and software organisations, they will provide three days of expert keynotes, open presentations, hands-on workshops, one-on-one mentoring and social events.
ON2 are currently considering applications to hold a workshop or presentation in the fields of software and radio. To apply, please write to contact@sourcefabric.org with a summary of your idea and project.
Public events will be free to attend, but sign up is required. The festival will be of particular interest to radio station managers, open source developers, web entrepreneurs, hardware hackers and journalists.
The festival is an official satellite event of transmediale, festival for art and digital culture and is the first in a series of open-source workshop events supported by the Free Culture Incubator. The festival is also partnered by Mute, a magazine dedicated to exploring culture and politics after the net. This is the second version of the festival following one held in June 2010 in Basel, Switzerland.
More information:
Festival wiki: http://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/ON2
Sourcefabric: http://www.sourcefabric.org
reboot.fm: http://reboot.fm
Open Broadcast: http://www.openbroadcast.ch
transmediale: http://transmediale.de
Mute magazine: http://metamute.org/
Free Culture Incubator: http://www.transmediale.de/en/fci
Haus der Kulturen der Welt: http://www.hkw.de/
or write to Adam at contact@sourcefabric.org
