Lab Macambira (English)
Lab Macambira (or Macambira Lab) is a distributed collective for avanced free software (FLOSS) developent, founded by composers, architects, university researchers and ex-googlers. Its main areas of activity are Audio visual and Web. The present wiki is the main knowledge base for Lab Macambira; there is also a home page Web Site.
[Google Summer of Code 2013 - click here]
Mission and Objectives
To develop free software (FLOSS) prioritizing
key technologies for the community. To disseminate code production as cultural phenomena.
Core Members
- Vilson Vieira
- Renato Fabbri
- Ricardo Fabbri, Ph.D.
- Daniel Marostegan e Carneiro
- Lab Macambira Team
Additional Key People
Collaborators
- Lidas/Casa dos Meninos
- Radio UFSCAR
- Instituto Politécnico IPRJ/UERJ Nova Friburgo
- Coletivo Puraqué - Santarem, PA
- Pontão de Cultura Digital Juntadados
- Esfera / Transparência Hacker
- Ethymos
- Nina Grio / Regional da Terra
- ((o))eco
- Hacklab
- Rede Mocambos
- Felipe Machado
- Fabricio Zuardi
Projects and Activities
Table of our Contributions to External Free Software
- Updated on October 2011
Application | Commiters | Attempting commit | Oficially Accepted? |
---|---|---|---|
Mozilla Firefox | daneoshiga, bzum | daneoshiga | |
Evince (document viewer/pdf) | hick209, bzum, marcicano | mquasar | hick209 |
BePDF, xpdf | marcicano | ? | |
Ekiga (videoconferencing) | flecha | flecha | |
Empathy (videoconferencing) | fefo | ||
Lib Folks (Telepathy, videoconferencing) | karmiac | ||
Scilab (Matlab equivalent) | v1z | penalv | v1z |
VxL (video x libraries) | v1z | v1z | |
ImageMagick (image processing) | v1z | v1z | |
OpenOffice / LibreOffice | hick209 | ||
Pure Data Extended - Pd (real time programming) | v1z | v1z, automata, greenkobold, gilson, bzum | v1z |
puredata_opencv (OpenCV + Pd) | v1z | v1z, fefo, hick209 | v1z |
Gem - Graphics Environment for Multimedia | v1z | v1z, fefo, hick209 | v1z |
PDP - Pure Data Packet (image processing) | v1z (mantenedor) | v1z | v1z |
Chuck (timed multimedia programming) | rfabbri | automata, rfabbri | rfabbri |
Miniaudicle (live IDE for Chuck) | rfabbri | automata, rfabbri | rfabbri |
WebRTC (videoconferencing in the browser) | automata | ||
OSC-Web (bridge between the OSC protocol and the browser) | automata, rfabbri | automata | |
Web-PD-GUI (alternative GUI for WebPD) |
automata |
automata | |
Live-Processing (Processing for live coding) |
automata |
automata | |
Chuck-Wiimote (ChucK / Wiimote interface) | automata | automata | |
Audiolet (JavaScript audio library) | automata | automata | |
extempore (live coding environment) | automata | automata |
Free Software Created by the Lab Macambira Crew
The following table lists free software created (fully or partially) by members of Lab Macambira at any point in their carreers. For a list of contributions to free software, besides just authorship, see the above table.
Partial list updated on November 13, 2011. See the remaining of our wiki for a more complete reference.
Application | Description | Creators | Collaborators in the Lab | Languages | Notable users |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AA | Algorithmic Autoregulation (software methodology) | greenkobold, automata, v1z, and more | Todos |
Python, PHP, and more | Lab Macambira, Ethymos |
Ágora Communs | system for online deliberations | greekobold and others | GT-Web | PHP | > 80 countries; UN |
SIP | Scilab Image Processing toolbox | v1z | fefo, hick209, penalv | C, Scilab | Classrooms (USP, USA), Sharp labs, academia |
animal | An Imaging Library | v1z | hick209, fefo, penalv | C | Scan Tailor and Doctorate projects at USP |
TeDi | Test Framework for Distance Transform Algorithms | v1z | C, shell, Scilab | Academia | |
Macambot | Multi-use irc bot | automata | DaneoShiga and more | Python | Lab Macambira |
Conferência Permanente | Platform for the Permanent Conference of the Rights of Minors | red and green kobold | Larissa | PHP, Javascript | |
Centro de prestação de contas |
Center for accounting of the culture NGOs |
Thiago Moraes, Daniel |
mquasar e andresmrm |
Python and WEB |
Teia Casa de Criação |
Timeline | Interactive timelines on the Web | kamiarc | kamiarc, automata | Javascript, outros |
Transparencia Hacker |
Imagemap |
Interactive marking for online photos |
Daneoshiga |
kamiarc,automata |
Javascript, HTML5 e CSS3 |
Transparencia Hacker |
ABT - A Beat Tracker | Pogram for real-time execution and rythmic analysis | rgkttm | rgkttm, automata | Python | Gilson Beck, Bernardo de Barros (wrote a program insipred on ABT) |
EKP- Emotional Kernel Panic | Using the kernel state and OS for the synthesis of musical material | rgkttm | rgkttm, automata | Python, Chuck | Ricardo Brazileiro and others. |
SOS - Sabedoria Olha Saúde (Knowledge, Look! Health) | System for the aggregation and difusion of popular and native knowledge about health | rgkttm | GT-Web | Python/Django | Culture NGOs and the wider population |
Economia Criativa (creative economy) | Platform for creative, colaborative, and solidary economy of the culture hubs (pontos) and cultural entities | rgkttm | GT-Web | Python/Django | Culture Hubs (pontos) of Sao Paulo and other colectives |
Lalenia |
Bot IRC multi-uso |
rgkttm |
rgkttm |
Python |
Lab Macambira |
Integração OpenID |
Adaptations to existing software for unified login through OpenID |
kamiarc |
GT-Web |
PHP e outros |
Ethymos |
pAAinel |
Dashboard for the real-time visualization of Lab Macambira activity |
rgkttm |
rgkttm, automata, mquasar |
Python/Django |
Lab Macambira |
Georeferenciamento |
Collection of scripts to be used as reference, which aims to be a GIS platform to map public data of use to citizens and prefectures |
rgkttm |
rgkttm e GT-Web |
Python/Django |
Ethymos, municipalities |
AirHackTable | Software for an instrument which generates sound from flying origami tracked by webcams | v1z, greenkobold, fefo, hick209, e diversos outros | GT-Video | Pd, C/C++, Scilab | Pd itself through Gem, Festival Contato |
Incomplete or experimental projects
- A partial list is available at Software Lab Macambira.
Work Groups
- GT-Web
- GT-AA
- GT-Audio
- GT-pdf
- GT-Video a.k.a. GT-VideoProcessing.
- GT-VideoConferencia
- GT-WebMedia (ainda incubando) a.k.a. GT-WebStreaming
- GT-Xinga
- GT-DeliberacaoOnline (incubando)
- GT-Georeferenciamento
- GT - Captação Financeira
- GT - Publicação/Divulgação do Lab
Google Summer of Code 2012
Take a look at our Ideas Page for good ways to contribute, even outside GSoC.
Humor
References
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- Linus Torvalds speech about Git at Google Tech Talk (side)
- Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8