How to Make Every Media With Free & Open-Source Software

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NOTE - THIS MEETUP IS VIRTUAL AND WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLINE WITH EFF-AUSTIN'S ZOOM ACCOUNT. We had originally hoped to resume in-person meetups this month but have held off another month to give the Omicron surge in Austin time to abate. We hope to start a hybrid in-person/virtual meetup format starting in February. For this month, to join the meetup, RSVP to this event, and then click the link that you will be shown upon RSVPing. The meeting room passcode is 573615. Also, please note that due to the increasing popularity of these virtual meetings increasing the likelihood of Zoom-bombing, we have been forced to institute tighter permissions and security around meeting attendees. Going forward, guests will not be able to share their screen, unmute themselves, or message anyone besides the host(s) in the chat without permission from the meetup organizers. When we are in the Q&A portion of the presentation, guests can raise their hands and will be granted said permissions.

Our speaker this month is Michael Ferstenfeld. Michael is an award-winning actor and musician, a lover and maker of every media, a recovering programmer and instructional systems design specialist, and the creator of Make Every Media, LLC--a versatile production house with a passion for the preservation and proliferation of arts, creative spaces, and unique voices through podcast, film, broadcast, and interactive, including virtual conferences, live streams, variety shows, apps, games, and virtual / augmented reality experiences.

“How to Make Every Media With Free & Open-Source Software” is an ever-evolving reference guide for creating in any digital medium with free and open-source tools. We’ll start at development & podcasting and work our way through making films, games, and VR experiences, covering each medium briefly and then zooming in wherever the audience is most interested. We’ll then open up for the crowd-sourcing of more open-source tools (as we’ve surely missed some), and questions from the audience on how they can get started, moving, or published in their current focus media. Of course, not everything can be done with free & open-source software, but there’s certainly enough out there these days to get you started down the path to creating in your medium of choice! For more on MEM :: https://makeeverymedia.com/

From our friends at Make Every Media: Make Every Media's Virtual Media Lounge is opening its digital doors to EFF-Austin for a post-meetup virtual pub happy hour! Decidedly NOT zoom, this spatial video conferencing platform is the closest thing we've found so far to simulating an in-person kind of presence without a VR headset. With the freedom of four glorious directions of movement, you can leave and join conversations at will, grab a private table for two, play an interactive party game, search for old-school 8-bit rpg easter eggs, and more! This lounge is best experienced in a Chrome Browser on your computer. Visit https://MakeEveryMedia.com/MediaLounge the day of the event to get your day-link, and see you after the talk :)