The second Read_me is based on database

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Since Runme. org was open for submissions from everyone, and its developers have uploaded found projects and invited many people to submit their works the number of works uploaded onto Runme. org during the one and half month period from the launch to the festival deadline, reached 150, including large number of interesting works. year has passed since the first Moscow edition, and the festival has grown and germinated through Runme. org the online software repository it is based on.

Amy Alexander, Florian Cramer, Olga Goriunova, Matthew Fuller, Alex McLean, Alexei Shulgin, and The Yes Men have reviewed the interesting in their opinion submitted projects. The current shape and organization of Read_Me is to test an alternative festival model, especially since the subject of the festival is software realm where people with artists selfidentities coexist with programmers whose views on the process of creation, distribution and even the very meaning of their work can be dramatically different from those of the artists.

festivals as widely accepted forms are often compromised by lack of transparency in submission and evaluation processes, which prevents interesting authors from submitting their projects and generates quite problematic winners. The first Read_me was also based on an online database where all the entered projects were stored, but the database was closed for new submissions after prearranged deadline. Open source communities are much more democratic, but have their own drawbacks they focus on functionality and pragmatic usefulness, thus sometimes leaving out interesting projects seen as unnecessary in these contexts.

Since Runme. org was open for submissions from everyone, and its developers have uploaded found projects and invited many people to submit their works the number of works uploaded onto Runme. org during the one and half month period from the launch to the festival deadline, reached 150, including large number of interesting works. The second Read_me is based on database functioning parallel to and independent from the offline festival. This quite unexpected result of the experiment caused some difficulties in the presentation of all the featured works at the festival, but was also very positive and significant.