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.
Mission and Objectives
To develop free software (FLOSS) prioritizing
key technologies for the community.
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 Livre 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