Frederick Noronha (FN)
2006-02-21 23:23:29 UTC
http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/02/13/2252242.shtml?tid=75&tid=18
Historic Libre Graphics Meeting set for next month
Tuesday February 21, 2006 (09:00 PM GMT)
By: Nathan Willis
The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), a first-of-its-kind conference for
developers of free and open source graphics applications, is scheduled
for the weekend of March 17 through 19. LGM will feature speakers from
the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, and other graphics projects teams, and will
showcase the public premiere of Elephant's Dream , the 3D animated film
created in Blender by Project Orange.
LGM is free to attend and will be held at the university campus at La
Doua, Villeurbanne, in Lyon, France. Speakers are scheduled for Friday
and Saturday. Among them is the GIMP's Øyvind Kolås, who will present a
talk on his implementation of the long-awaited Generic Graphical Library
(GEGL) concept, Gggl. Marti Maria of LittleCMS will talk about color
management, and adding it to graphics applications. Neil Howe, chief
technology officer of Xara, will present an update on the company's work
at opening the source of the Xara Extreme vector graphics editor and
porting it to Linux.
GIMP developer Karine Delvare will deliver the only presentation in
French, on her own experiences joining a free software project and what
others should know if they are interested in doing the same.
Demonstrations are scheduled by artist Andy Fitzsimon on Inkscape/GIMP
integration and by Gerald Friedland on the innovative SIOX image
extraction tool. Craig Bradney and Peter Linnell will give a progress
report on Scribus.
Jon Phillips from Inkscape, CREATE, and Creative Commons, and Cèdric
Gemy from TuxPaint are on the schedule, but haven't announced topics
yet.
Saturday's last talk will be a presentation by the Blender developers,
focusing in particular on Project Orange, the "open source" animated
film being produced with Blender and other free tools. After their talk,
participants will get a special treat: the world premiere of the
completed Project Orange movie, Elephant's Dream.
Conference organizer Dave Neary said he is excited about LGM, as it is
the first conference dedicated entirely to free and open source graphics
software. Neary says that the event grew out of a relatively humble plan
to get the GIMP's developers together. But as word of the meet-up
spread, programmers from Inkscape and Scribus expressed interest in
attending to work on cross-project collaboration.
LGM organizers soon extended invitations to a host of other projects,
and when the timeframe seemed to coincide with Xara's open source news
and Project Orange, a full-fledged conference was born. Neary says he
has had to scramble at times to get sponsors on board and commitments
from speakers, but he says he is excited at the response thus far.
Neary emphasizes that the event is not limited to software developers,
and encouraged artists, students, and any other interested party to
attend. To that end, much of Sunday is reserved for Birds of a Feather
(BoF) sessions, impromptu meetings, and so-called "lightning talks" --
five- to 10-minute presentations open to anyone, users included.
These sessions, Neary says, will feature "tutorials and demonstrations
of programs which are given by the people who use them the most; not
just developers talking to users, but users talking back." The LGM wiki
has pages set aside for attendees to organize some of these less-formal
meetings in advance of the conference. Neary encourages projects not
already on the schedule to attend and schedule BOFs or lightning talks
at their discretion, and to contact conference organizers if they want
to reserve formal meeting space.
Neary has also tried to build open blocks of time into the schedule, in
which attendees have access to the conference facilities and are free to
meet, brainstorm, and collaborate with each other. "The benefit of the
conference is in having [open] and frank exchanges," he explains, "and
having lots of users (that is, artists) present opens up a whole new
perspective for the conference."
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Historic Libre Graphics Meeting set for next month
Tuesday February 21, 2006 (09:00 PM GMT)
By: Nathan Willis
The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), a first-of-its-kind conference for
developers of free and open source graphics applications, is scheduled
for the weekend of March 17 through 19. LGM will feature speakers from
the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, and other graphics projects teams, and will
showcase the public premiere of Elephant's Dream , the 3D animated film
created in Blender by Project Orange.
LGM is free to attend and will be held at the university campus at La
Doua, Villeurbanne, in Lyon, France. Speakers are scheduled for Friday
and Saturday. Among them is the GIMP's Øyvind Kolås, who will present a
talk on his implementation of the long-awaited Generic Graphical Library
(GEGL) concept, Gggl. Marti Maria of LittleCMS will talk about color
management, and adding it to graphics applications. Neil Howe, chief
technology officer of Xara, will present an update on the company's work
at opening the source of the Xara Extreme vector graphics editor and
porting it to Linux.
GIMP developer Karine Delvare will deliver the only presentation in
French, on her own experiences joining a free software project and what
others should know if they are interested in doing the same.
Demonstrations are scheduled by artist Andy Fitzsimon on Inkscape/GIMP
integration and by Gerald Friedland on the innovative SIOX image
extraction tool. Craig Bradney and Peter Linnell will give a progress
report on Scribus.
Jon Phillips from Inkscape, CREATE, and Creative Commons, and Cèdric
Gemy from TuxPaint are on the schedule, but haven't announced topics
yet.
Saturday's last talk will be a presentation by the Blender developers,
focusing in particular on Project Orange, the "open source" animated
film being produced with Blender and other free tools. After their talk,
participants will get a special treat: the world premiere of the
completed Project Orange movie, Elephant's Dream.
Conference organizer Dave Neary said he is excited about LGM, as it is
the first conference dedicated entirely to free and open source graphics
software. Neary says that the event grew out of a relatively humble plan
to get the GIMP's developers together. But as word of the meet-up
spread, programmers from Inkscape and Scribus expressed interest in
attending to work on cross-project collaboration.
LGM organizers soon extended invitations to a host of other projects,
and when the timeframe seemed to coincide with Xara's open source news
and Project Orange, a full-fledged conference was born. Neary says he
has had to scramble at times to get sponsors on board and commitments
from speakers, but he says he is excited at the response thus far.
Neary emphasizes that the event is not limited to software developers,
and encouraged artists, students, and any other interested party to
attend. To that end, much of Sunday is reserved for Birds of a Feather
(BoF) sessions, impromptu meetings, and so-called "lightning talks" --
five- to 10-minute presentations open to anyone, users included.
These sessions, Neary says, will feature "tutorials and demonstrations
of programs which are given by the people who use them the most; not
just developers talking to users, but users talking back." The LGM wiki
has pages set aside for attendees to organize some of these less-formal
meetings in advance of the conference. Neary encourages projects not
already on the schedule to attend and schedule BOFs or lightning talks
at their discretion, and to contact conference organizers if they want
to reserve formal meeting space.
Neary has also tried to build open blocks of time into the schedule, in
which attendees have access to the conference facilities and are free to
meet, brainstorm, and collaborate with each other. "The benefit of the
conference is in having [open] and frank exchanges," he explains, "and
having lots of users (that is, artists) present opens up a whole new
perspective for the conference."
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