Sisters of Mute | Openmute - Linkme2 - More is More - independent media distribution
Subscribe to our RSS feed 
Submit Content
You can post articles, news and much more to this site.
Submit Content here
Mute Music
pil and galia portrait

Introducing –
Pil and Galia Kollectiv,
one sixth of Mute's
ensemble music column

covering sonic adventures
across genres and time.
Email: info AT kollectiv.co.uk

Mute music column


No Room to Move
nils norman

No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes.
By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles


Search
Credits for metamute.org Credits

Production and technology
The overall site and technology project management by OpenMute.org.

OpenMute has initiated a set of new FLOSS web technologies, originated for this project, including; Web2POD, POD (print on demand), NDS (networked distribution services),  user built  PODs,  multi-currency and multi-region Ecommerce (optionally on account) and contextual & multi-dimensional menuing.

Core team
Director, Simon Worthington;
Pre-production and R&D, Benedict Seymour, Anthony Iles, Demetra Kotouza, Simon Worthington and Mute Editors;
One-man technical rescue squad, Mute/OpenMute CTO Darron Broad.

Site build
Interactive design, Core Team;
Initial Drupal consultation and installation, Interactors.coop;
Graphic design, Raquel Perez de Eulate;
Design coding, Raquel Perez de Eulate and Laura Oldenbourg;
Database import wrangling, Darron Broad;
Contextual and multi dimensional menu, Jörg Baach and Stephan Karpischek;
E-commerce modification for multi-currency, multi-region payment on account tool, Jose A. Reyero;
Networked distribution services, core team.

Consultancy on The Public Library/Mute Bittorrent
Saul Albert.

Special thanks

To Darron Broad (for continual problem solving, conceptual design, implementation of The Public Library/Mute Bittorrent and other technical work); to Jamie King (for help on The Public Library/Mute Bittorrent); to the CiviCRM and Drupal development communities.

Software
Drupal; CiviCRM; Mailman; PayPal.

Mute FLOSS Contributions
Web2POD
User POD tool for Drupal
Contextual and multi dimensional menu for Drupal
E-commerce modification for multi-currency, multi-region payment on account tool for Drupal
Networked distribution services, for CiviCRM

Info and code available at present (Dec 2005) by emailing mute AT metamute.og

Web2POD (Print on Demand) and Networked Distribution Services software development is ongoing, to participate in the project visit OpenMute's development site http://3d.openmute.org or join the dev email list http://lists.metamute.org/mailman/listinfo/web2pod.

Additionally an invitation to become a partner or financially contribute to the Web2POD FLOSS project can be found here (Dec 05)

Project requirements
Web2POD - initial planning document. Oct 2005
Networked Distribution Services - this document is an end user analysis of civiCRM, the FLOSS application we are using to base our system on. (Sept 2005)

Current contribution acknowledgements
Jessie, Damian and Magnus Jaques - accomodation for the POD guys while working on stage 1 of Web2POD (Oct 05) ;-)
Saul Albert - accomodation for the POD guys while working on stage 1 of Web2POD (Nov 05)


Mute has moved

Our new address is:

46 Lexington Street, London, W1F 0LP
tel: 020 3287 9005


Mute Archive

Recomposing the University -
By Tiziana Terranova & Marc Bousquet
July 2004

Far removed from the clichéd image of the ‘ivory tower’, today’s universities have been opened to the harsh realities of neoliberal economics. In the name of democratisation and equality, the university has become a cross between a supermarket and a factory whose consumers are also its hyper-exploited labour force. But the conditions of mass intellectuality also create new potentials and alliances

Buy the complete print archive

Subscribe to our news and annouce list


Your full name

Recent comments
Mute anthology book


Hardback £44.99 Softback £24.99

Buy now

Read more Proud to be Flesh: a Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net


Current Magazine

SubscribeBuy now

Read: Mute vol 2 #14


User login
Navigation



Shop with: