Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) 2010

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Welcome to LGM 2010

06:41

Desjardin, Louis et al.

2012

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Extending Python for Speed

22:38

Renold, Martin

Python is a nice high-level language, but most graphic applications have some code that must run fast at any price. Everyone knows that it is possible to write C/C++ extensions for Python. Not everyone knows that it can be done cleanly, simply and DRY.

2012

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A first outline for a UI for a fully GEGLed GIMP

30:35

Sikking, Peter

The (eternally) imminent integration of GEGL into GIMP—or rather, fully basing GIMP on GEGL—holds great promise. Lossless editing and unlimited re-adjustment and reordering of image editing steps are only the beginning. However there is big gap between the nuts and bolts of the GEGL graph and nodes, and the world of GIMP users doing high-end image manipulation for artistic results. User interfaces bridge this gap and Peter Sikking, principal Interaction Architect at m+mi works, and lead Interaction Architect of GIMP, will outline in this talk the UI principles that can unlock the power of GEGL in a GIMP context.

2012

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Writing GIMP scripts and plugins

26:06

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Peck, Akkana

Much of the power of GIMP comes from its plug-in architecture. Most of the functions you use in GIMP, including everything in the Filters menu, are implemented as plug-ins. Happily, writing GIMP plug-ins is easy. This talk will show you how to write new plug-ins or extend existing ones in two languages: Script-fu and Python

2012

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Collaborative intellectual property

10:33

Cuartas Correa, Jose David

This session shows how when we put together Free software, free content and open hardware, we get something that we can call: “Collaborative intellectual property.”

2012

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PureDyne

14:45

Mansoux, Aymeric

Puredyne is the USB-bootable GNU/Linux operating system for creative media. It is a live distribution, you don’t need to install anything – simply boot your computer using a USB key or CD/DVD and you’re ready to start using software such as Pure Data, Supercollider, Icecast, Csound, Fluxus, Processing, Arduino, Gimp, Inkscape and much more.

2012

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UpStage - an open source web-based platform for cyberformance

11:00

Jamieson, Helen Varley

Artists use UpStage to collaborate in real-time on live performances for an online audience, using the web interface to manipulate graphics, animations, text, text2speech, audio, web cams and drawing, creating live performances that are accessible to anyone with a standard browser and internet connection. The application, which is open source and written in Python, sits on a server so there is no need for artists or audience to download or install anything.

2012

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Open Source project to enable fashion design using open data formats

12:25

Spencer, Susan L.

This presentation invites developers to help create a suite of open source software to create and modify clothing patterns in open data formats to match an individual’s body measurement and generate customized patterns as printable files. Current applications are proprietary, do not interoperate, and are expensive. An open source solution would enable individual and small label designers to create and provide custom sized patterns without purchasing high-cost proprietary software.

2012

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The Rural Design Collective Summer Mentoring Program

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Hargrave Malamud, Rebecca

The Rural Design Collective in Port Orford, Oregon, is a not-for-profit professional mentoring program with a local focus designed to help motivated, creative people begin an independent career on the Internet. They learn to work remotely using collaborative tools and social-networking sites, and are required to meet production deadlines and interact with their clients one-on-one either using online communication tools or by conducting on-site meetings. The program is focused on teaching and using open source technologies.

2012

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Baroque Dreams Live Multimedia Performance Interpretive Culture and Open Source Software

27:26

Threw, Barry

This talk will cover the issues of bringing live interpretive performance back into electronic music and multimedia performance culture. Issues of technology obsolesce, interface, types of users, hardware, and historical cultures patterns will be discussed. Ways the open source community can help build tools that will be useful to the video or music artists interested in interpretive performance of works will be suggested.

2012

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How to get contributors to your Free/Libre/Open Source project from Vietnam and Asia

28:06

Dang, Hong Phuc

2012

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Elements of Typographic Freedom: Open Sources of Extraordinary Design

22:15

Adams, Christopher

Type is a tool. This talk aims to give an inspiring overview of excellence in the typographic arts, with a special emphasis on fonts and world-class book design using free software.

2012

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Device Colour Management

29:45

Behrmann, Kai-Uwe

Devices seldom agree about colours by default. RGB (Red/Green/Blue) colour spaces in digital or analog cameras are different from laptop and desktop monitors and those are different from inkjet printers, even if they do not only support a CMYK (Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Key-Black) colour space. The talk gives an overview of how these diverging colours can be brought together by the configurable Oyranos Colour Management System on a system level. It will further discuss what is required by applications to make use of the provided ICC profile information.

2012

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Best practices for designing - releasing - maintaining - packaging open fonts

22:30

Spalinger, Nicolas

Best practices for designing, releasing, maintaining and packaging open fonts. A review of dos and don’ts based on real world examples and community experiences. Various tips and tools for authors, designers and contributors to open font projects to Do The Right Thing in the complicated area of open fonts.

2012

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Content centric architecture and distributed versioning

18:00

Schrijver, Eric

2012

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Another year of Open Source Publishing

04:41

Open Source Publishing (OSP)

OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a multidisciplinary, multi-national design collective based in Brussels. Since 2006 they have been experimenting with Free Software for design. In this talk, OSP tours you at the speed of light through work done since LGM 2009.

2012

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Diffusion Curves in Inkscape vector drawings

23:15

Gronde, Jasper van de

Diffusion Curves are an exciting and flexible new primitive for creating images with smooth color transitions. However, the best method to display diffusion curves so far is to rasterize them, which is unsuitable for use with SVG for example. I will present the basic idea behind Diffusion Curves, an alternative interpretation and an approach to creating a purely vector based representation (discussion welcome).

2012

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Styling TeX documents with Batch Commander

11:26

Lafuente, Ricardo

Batch Commander is a tool that provides a graphical interface for styling (La)TeX documents. While the plaintext-based nature of TeX is ideal for automated typesetting, Batch Commander provides a GUI for editing document styles visually, instead of manually editing style files and recompiling. A quick previewing system and support for extensions make Batch Commander worth a look for anyone using TeX, LaTeX or ConTeXt for their own work.

2012

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Font design and features for African languages

13:23

Moyogo Jacquerye, Denis

This presentation will discuss the requirements of orthographies for African languages in Latin scripts and shows how to implement them with modern fonts technologies. Good practices, mistakes and evaluation of fonts for African languages with high requirements will be discussed. The presentation will also showcase various font projects that are benefitting from the input, feedback and work of the Open Source community.

2012

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Google's Font Initiative

12:10

Crossland, Dave

Raph Levien is a longtime contributor to the libre graphics community (libart, Ghostscript, Advogato) and launched Spiro at LGM 2007 in Montreal. Now working for Google, he is leading an initiative to sponsor libre font projects and services. This talk by Dave Crossland, a sponsored type designer, will outline the sponsorship opportunity for type designers wishing to design fonts that can be shared and collaboratively improved. It will also offer one of the first public demonstrations of a related Google font project.

2012

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Designing a Better Tomorrow: How design is informed by metaphors, images and associations of social progress

17:38

Schaefer, Mirko Tobias

Making the world a better place has been a powerful engine of ingenuity and has driven technological development from Claude Chappe’s signalling system to Samuel Morse’s telegraph, from Paul Otlet’s information indexes to Ted Nelson’s hyperspace. Information technology in general and the World Wide Web and its label Web 2.0 in particular tell a legend of empowering users and enabling participation.

2012

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Cantarell: Designing Typefaces Using Only Free Software

22:30

Crossland, Dave

This talk presents the techniques and software I used and developed for creating the Cantarell font family, and looks at the future of free software type design. During the last 2 years I undertook the prestigious MA Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading, UK. The course involves two major projects, a theoretical dissertation and a practical type design. I wrote about the nexus of free software and typeface design, and used only free software to design Cantarell.

2012

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Designing with Free tools in an Open Community: experiences from the Fedora Design Team

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Buculei, Nicu et al.

The Fedora Design Team is an Open Community consisting from people from all around the world collaborating on various projects, from desktop wallpapers to posters, icons, website and application mockups, CD/DVD art and more. Everything created by the team is licensed freely, according with Fedora’s foundations: Freedom, Friends, Features, First.

2012

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How to Run an Art School on Free and Open Source Software

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Cramer, Florian et al.

Open Source plays an increasingly important role in arts and design through Web applications and open licenses. The Networked Media design programme of the Piet Zwart Institute has, for years, employed Open Source more radically for all course work, on servers and clients, with a focus on the command line, coding and FLOSS philosophy to foster rethinking of media instead of off-the-shelf design.

2012

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GNU LibreDWG - a free software library to handle DWG files from AutoCAD

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Corrêa da Silva Sanches, Felipe

LibreDWG is a library to handle files in the DWG format used by AutoCAD. I will present a general overview of the history of the project, explaining how a group of students at the University of São Paulo developed a new and relevant free software library (listed in the FSF High Priority Projects List) and how it became approved as an official GNU package.

2012

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Color Management and other new developments in Ghostscript

20:51

Leung, Hin-Tak

The Ghostscript team has a few on-going or soon-to-complete development efforts which would be of great interest to the free graphics community. We have done some major work with ICC-profiles which is about to be merged into trunk for release in August (hopefully.) We have also integrated freetype as a font-renderer, and made under-the-hood improvements in the form of clist and going towards multi-threaded rendering. In the embedded/small-memory-footprint application area, we have been working on mupdf. These are just a few highlights.

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sK1 Project: Past, Present and Future

18:01

Novikov, Igor

The project was started in 2003 as a Sketch fork. Since that time sK1 became an awardwinning Open Source application and supports a lot of unique and professional publishing features. This year is a serious milestone in project development – global refactoring, multiplatform versions etc.

2012

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Laidout and Desktop Publishing

25:38

Lechner, Tom

Laidout is a desktop publishing program that I use primarily to make cartoon books. It can lay out images and gradients (including mesh gradients) onto booklets, as well as onto arbitrary polyhedral surfaces. Other novel features include controlled multiple image import, and image mesh warping. Being debugged currently are multicontact abilities. Discussion will also include experiences with various open source software for related tasks.

2012

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Blender Foundation, past and future

19:36

Roosendaal, Ton

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Ton Roosendaal presents work on Blender the past year, current status and plans for the future.

2012

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How I made a free New Zealand coffee-table book using lots of Free Software

10:59

Holland-Moritz, Marcus

In 2009 I made a trip to New Zealand where I took about 15,000 photos. After I spent weeks selecting and processing the good shots and getting very positive feedback from my friends, I decided to try to make a book about my trip. I had already been using Scribus in the past, but not for anything beyond very simple one-page layouts. Trying to figure out how to do a whole book took me a while, not only working with (and on) the tools, but also reading a lot about design, typography and more esoteric stuff like colour management.

2012

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Coding pictures with Shoebot

11:01

Lafuente, Ricardo

Shoebot is a graphics robot with which you can create complex images and animations using a very simple syntax on top of the Python programming language. It is specifically aimed at designers and artists who want to incorporate code into their creations, but it also provides for a good educational framework for introducing code-based approaches, with a simple interface and quick image-based results.

2012

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Multi-touch support in Ubuntu

11:20

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Conklin, Steve

A quick presentation about the current state of multi-touch support in Ubuntu, and the road map for the next release.

2012

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Digital photography workflow on Linux with darktable

14:22

Prokoudine, Alexandre

State of the art digital photography workflow on Linux and how darktable finally makes it possible.

2012

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Plana, publishing illustration and comics with floss

07:35

Carvalho, Ana

Plana started as an academic project by Luís Camanho for a small independent publisher on illustration and comics. Free software was embraced almost from the very beginning. It was an answer to economic constraints but also reflection of our empathy with the libre graphics world. As a consequence, we got interested in copyright and embraced the sharing culture, informing and encouraging our authors to distribute their work for free. With five books published since 2008 we would like to share our experiences so far.

2012

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Writing brush engines for fun and profit!

21:15

Tvrdý, Lukáš

Among free software graphics application, Krita is unique in that its painting system is plugin-based: all Krita brush engines are plugins. Starting with the sumi-e hairy brush engine I worked on during the 2008 Google Summer of Code, I continued writing over half a dozen experimental, funny and useful brush engine for my Master’s Thesis at the VŠBTechnical University of Ostrava. This presentation will start with a live demonstration of these brush engines. The second part will be more technical: I will give an introduction into the art of writing brush engine plugins for Krita. It’s easy and fun, not difficult at all!

2012

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SVG - News and Plans

30:22

Schepers, Doug et al.

2012

River Valley TV

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