Free space looking for sketches
I believe that there are many people out there that experiment with processing but don’t want to bother with domains or hosting. Well, my host has plenty of storage and monthly bandwitdh, far more than I’ll ever need. At this time there’s about 30Gb waiting to be filled (I’m currently using 60Mb) and I have about 300Gb bandwidth per month to spare.
So, if you got Processing sketches to share but no space to do it, feel free to send them over. Just a few pointers:
- Code should be shared under a Creative Commons license, similar to the one at the bottom of this page. I’ll waste no space on private code.
- Although it’s ultimately up to me to decide what goes online, I will not judge on esthetic or other purely personal grounds. The only criteria to refuse a piece are offensive content, malicious intent or blatant commercial abuse.
- Sketches should be submitted by email (check contact) as a zipped archive of the applet folder generated by Processing.
- I’ll host everything in a separate domain “guest.wblut.com” as a blog similar to mine. Each submitted piece will be a blog entry with link, screenshot, author, tags and description. Anything you want to go here, especially description and screenshot, you can put in the email. Keep the screenshot 450px wide or less (I don’t feel like messing with WordPress templates
). There are nicer alternatives than a simple blog, but it’s easier to keep content and comments organised. - I will not host any other files. There’s enough other options out there.
In return, I’ll do my best to keep everything nice, tidy and punctual. Just to be clear, I’m not out for money, my pages, including the guest blog, are advertisement free and will always remain that way 
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Update : synchronicity… There’s another solution out there since the 22nd of march: http://www.openprocessing.org/. Cool, must be an idea whose time is right. Thanks to Andreas for pointing this out.
Tags: Processing
April 2nd, 2008 at 08:26
Hi, there is another solution for processing people without a host: http://www.openprocessing.org/
April 2nd, 2008 at 15:29
Hey hi,
Thanks for pointing out openprocessing.org. Hopefully it is going to be a nice solution for those people looking for a place to share their sketches.
Just wanted to mention that, in openprocessing, I was also requiring creative common license first. But then I consulted a friend of mine who works in CC, and he gave me a short briefing on those licenses, and told me that processing sketches fall more into GNU GPL license since they were a piece of code, not a painting/drawing/photo.. I will follow up the issue to apply the best open source license possible on openprocessing, and also let you know about it.
April 2nd, 2008 at 17:19
I don’t see Processing sketches as a piece of code. I think of them as ideas implemented with tools given to us. It’s a gray area. And I realise matters are different if you’re talking about code for an exhibit and such.
But still, I’d rather be credited for, let’s say, an interesting take on flocking than for the specific code…
Anyway don’t worry too much about legal implications. If you intend to earn money with art or prints, it might not be a good idea to share the machine that creates them on the internet.
Cheers!
April 8th, 2008 at 10:52
Yo, check this out http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=181