Notices by Alex McLean (yaxu@post.lurk.org)

I travelled down to Cambridge University to give a free talk a few weeks ago. Their procedure to reclaim travel expenses is an absolute joke, involving reading and processing three different documents with overlapping info, then sending information they already have to another email address manne which turned out to be manned by the same person who asked me to send it, to register with their system. Two weeks later nothing has happened so I can't even start the actual claim process which looks awful. I feel completely ripped off and disrespected by one of the poshest institutions in the world.

I really wish there was a culture in free/open source software of actually telling the person who made the thing when you do something good/interesting/cool/weird with it, used it in a workshop/teaching. It's super nice+motivating when I hear about tidal being used on a course or something, but it's generally only by chance.
I guess it's another case of people adopting the at-a-distance customer-supplier relationship of commercial/proprietary software, when free/open source _should_ take a friendlier approach

Ok a bit last minute.. but lets do a solstice stream on Wednesday! Live coders assemble to contribute a 20 minute streamed performance around 21st December (times should show in your local time) -> https://sun.tidalcycles.org/

Thrown together a bit hastily so details will change, but stream instructions are here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DQLdSvNal03mH21w0K6vBJoL96XPshUi-ZHyA2vCLhw/edit#

It says tidalcycles but imposters live coding with other software very welcome !

Still 19 slots left .. https://sun.tidalcycles.org/