[Press] PRESS RELEASE: Milkymist One video synthesizer shown at 6th Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal

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Montreal, May 13, 2011

More than 200 active developers, artists, and attendees of the 6th
Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in Montreal were able to see the Milkymist
One video synthesizer (http://milkymist.org) live for the first time,
to entertain and surprise them between talks and during breaks.
Real-time video synthesis with audio and video input had been
available before in proprietary packages combining multiple devices
and costing several thousand USD. Milkymist One combines this into a
small form factor, and uses only free software and free hardware
acceleration.

"The Milkymist One is the future of live performance and is the real
freedom box, available now. Without a truly open hardware
architecture, developers working on free and open software are going
to be locked out from the future of development," said Jon Phillips,
Fabricatorz Founder and Qi Hardware Co-founder. "I am extremely proud
to use the Milkymist One live at the event, and explain why its so
important for the future of Libre Graphics."

Phillips is giving a final keynote presentation at LGM2011 where he is
presenting the future of Libre Graphics, moving from developers on
desktop systems they control, to network services outward towards
embedded hardware for making graphics.

Later that night, Milkymist One will be featured during the Libre
Graphics Meeting 2011 closing ceremony in Montreal at an event called
Geepsters.

The Milkymist project is an informal organization of people and
companies who develop, manufacture and sell a comprehensive open
source solutions (http://qi-hardware.com) for the live synthesis of
interactive visual effects for video performance artists, clubs and
musicians. The project goes great lengths to apply the open source
principles at every level possible, and is best known for the
Milkymist system-on-chip (SoC) which is among the first commercialized
system-on-chip designs with free HDL source code. Several Milkymist
technologies have been reused in applications unrelated to video
synthesis, such as NASA's Communication Navigation and Networking
Reconfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT).

Milkymist One is currently available in limited quantities to early
adopters, and will be available later this summer for general use, at
a target price of 499 USD.
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