Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels Announced

GLOBAL - August 22, 2009 - Cutting edge graphics software meets
free culture at Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels

Users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source graphics software
will meet in Brussels, Belgium on May 26-29, 2010 at the fifth annual
Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM). Held in a historical piano factory,
newly renovated into a lively exhibition and work space near Brussels'
city center, LGM 2010 offers software developers, artists, designers and
other graphics professionals the chance to collaborate and learn from each
other. LGM emphasizes the sharing of collective creativity, innovation
and ideas and is free for everyone to attend. The LGM community is
excited for the opportunity to bring this event to the European capital.

About the Libre Graphics Meeting

The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts
behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this
annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and
supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus,
Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to
work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior
LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color
management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats.

Face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to
users and developers alike; in the form of tutorials, talks, workshops,
and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) the event offers many formal and informal
opportunities to interact.

Highlights from LGM 2009

The last Libre Graphics Meeting took place in Montreal, Canada. It
involved 150+ participants from around the world working together for
four days to give presentations, demos, and meet informally. Through
support from the École Polytechnique Montréal, the LGM user community
(raising money on pledgie.com), Sourceforge, River Valley Technologies,
Intel Communities, Open Candy, QT, sK1, GIMP, Python Software Foundation,
Gnome foundation and Group Eyrolles, the conference funded travel
for many international developers whom otherwise would not be able
to work face to face. Highlights included contributions by companies
building on Open Source such as AscenderCorp and Open Source Publishing,
and presentations of Jeff Fortin’s PiTiVi Video Editor, FontMatrix,
Phatch and Michael Terry’s work on In-Gimp user-experience analysis
and kinetic templates. All major projects in attendance, Scribus, Gimp,
Inkscape, and Open Font Library, spent time planning activities for the
next year. New projects like the panorama stitcher NONA, Lighttwist, a
system for running multi-projector immersive video displays, and Markus
Weiland's FacetZoom widget, set the stage for new exciting software
developments leading into LGM 2010 in Brussels.

A Preview of LGM 2010

For Libre Graphics Meeting 2010, the conference promoters challenge
all participating projects and people to set goals and plan creative
projects. First, each major project is requested to have set three solid
priorities before the conference to work towards. Second, one or more
collaborative projects is to be developed, beyond just the tools used,
such as a book or animation. And third, the conference hopes to involve
an increasing number of artists and academics to show novel uses libre
graphics software, and to discuss, analyse and provide inspiration.

In the coming months, Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 organizers will
release more information about the upcoming conference, raising funds to
enable the event, and release the official call for participation for
2010. Immediately, the conference organizers invite all interested in
participating to watch the http://libregraphicsmeeting.org website and
join the Create Project (http://create.freedesktop.org) mailing list
and get involved.

LGM 2010 is hosted by the Libre Graphics Community and Constant in
collaboration with De Pianofabriek, Master Networked Media and Research
programme Communication in a Digital Age (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem
de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam) and the Bruxelles Linux User Group (BXLUG).

For more information, visit http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org

Press Contact

* Sponsoring Organization: Create Project and Libre Graphics Meeting
* Contact: Jon Phillips
* Contact email: jon@rejon.org
* Phone (USA): +1.415.830.3884
* Website: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/
* Press Release in other languages: http://ur1.ca/a33b
* Press Photos: http://ur1.ca/a34y

I'm out of reach

General service announcement

I'll be ot of reach for two weeks, so please don't bother to contact me (not that you would have the need to, anyway...). I'll be camping in Cortina d'Ampezzo so maybe I'll be able to update some tracks for OSM. We'll see, as I haven't been able to buy a decent tracklogger for that :(

lans +5

It's nice to se my translation getting into GNOME 2.26, hopefully you'll like it. I know the Scribus folks still wait for me to translate the docs, but I think with the recent changes in my life I'll be able to get back to it. You ask what are these changes (well, probably you didn't)? Well, for now I can't tell you much, heck, I can't tell you anything but in due time you will know. So here's my TODO list for the year 2009:

1. Write my master thesis (of course there's still the question what for?)
2. Do some more GNOME translations.
3. Translate Scribus's docs
4. Get married… OK, this one isn't actually on my list, but hey - you can still have dreams, can't you?

Donate ;)

Planet - A Year Of Edits On OpenStreetMap

Planet - A Year Of Edits On OpenStreetMap, originally uploaded by Peter Ito.

As you can see (thanks to the wonderful visualisation from Peter Ito) we've been pretty busy mapping last year, even in regions I wouldn't suspect there's someone out there ;)
Let 2009 end in more glowing colours!!!

Is it that time of the year again?

The book meme is still alive, so once again:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"When the QLabels are added to the status bar, they are automatically reparented to make them children of the status bar."

And the winner is "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4" second edition by Jasmin Blanchette and Mark Summerfield. Thank <deity> this wasn't "ANSI C" by Kernighan and Ritchie which is lying beneath the Qt book, but sadly Stanisław Lem's "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" where to far away, although also on top of another stack of books

Looks like Mark D. is right - we all are depressingly geeky...

Zakręt

Nie słyszałeś jeszcze tej kapeli? Zapraszam więc na koncert!
Niestety poprzednim razem nie mogłem dojechać, lecz teraz musi mi się udać—najwyżej specjalnie wezmę sobie urlop ;) Jakby ktoś chciał jechać ze Śremu/Kórnika to na priv poproszę w samochodzie zawsze znajdzie się miejsce...p>

End of an era

In a few weeks I'll be shutting down my home server (please don't start the discussion about the definition of a server again!). This means that my current XMPP account will cease to exist and it will be reinstalled at a new server (probably Google Apps); so please forgive me if you get some auth requests.

Rebuttal

Mr. Siegel - it's not an unknown distro! For example I use it on my notebook ;)

It's time to go home...

After 3 days of LGM I'm back home. I would like to thank Kamila and Louis for making such a wonderful experience possible, great job! It was really nice to meet also those people I've talked to on IRC for the last few years (I wonder how many of them are dissapointed now :P). Thanks to ``Cube I got the possibility to meet the people responsible for the Tango Project who were wonderful companions for me on the first day in Wrocław.

And now I need some sleep...

Show me your history...

...and I'll show you who you are. Or something like that ;)

[deejay1@betty ~]$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
177 cd
100 git
82 vim
68 svn
63 ./builder
59 su
50 mc
44 cvs
39 ls
29 rpmbuild

Yes, I do change directories pretty often and no, my laptop isn't named after a woman!

Support LGM!

So, it's that time of the year: LGM is near! If you're into open source and graphics this event is an absolute must. If you have some credits spare, you can support it by clicking . Any amount will help us cover some of the accommodation and travel costs for developers, so we can bring as many of them as possible to Poland!

Now for some serious work...

At last! I've placed the preorder in January and it finally arrived on my desk. It wasn't so easy thanks to the all mighty Polish Post — I had to hunt it around the entire city. It should give me a jumpstart into Qt, because the online docs didn't really work out for me, sadly.

Let's hope it won't interfere with my master thesis ;)

Ain't never been cool...

OK, this time it won't be completely free, but hey - it's just £5 at 7digital for the entire album!

You should pay it to the artist you like anyway! And here it is, the video to "Lips are unhappy" by Lucky Soul:

Downtime

Planet PLD will have some downtime today (14.12.2007), I'll have to do the cable work in my room again :/ Sorry for the inconvenience and the late warning, but this had to be done sometime.

Ech...

Kolejna głupota w polskim wydaniu. Jeśli chcesz coś wykorzystać co zostało udostępnione na licencji CC musisz zapłacić haracz^H^H^H^Hopłatę na rzecz organizacji zbiorowego zarządzania (w skrócie OZZ). W takim razie chcę widzieć pieniążki za to, iż ktoś kiedyś może wykorzystać cokolwiek z mojego bloga – może czas zacząć wysyłać żądania do odpowiednich OZZ o ponoć należne nam pieniądze? W końcu to dla nas istnieją (pun intended)...

Post rock?

I never like to categorize music, because it's just it - music! Everyone has a different taste, and what's for someone post rock for me is just rock or even something more peculiar ;) We should have a different category for each band, because they all have a different sound (I mean proper bands, not the ones you see usually on the telly).

But let's get to the essence of this foolish blog post - this weeks artist is Gina Artworth. It's a nice mix of a wonderful vocal (I think I fell in love... ;> and noisy guitars. Just mmmmmmmm (yeah, I know - it's an intelligent sentence). Sadly it's already some years old (2003) and GOOG doesn't tell much about what is going on with her lately. Maybe you know? Anyway - go on and listen if you haven't already done so.

Life, the universe and everything...

Sorry, this week's album had to fall out due to me being away from a network connection :/ I promise I'll make up for this with some great music next week!

Life is music...

Jamendo.com has crossed another important point in it's history - over 5000 availible albums to download and listen to — and of course it's all CC licensed!

From now on you can listen to some music I find interesting in my sidebar and it'll change every week, hope you'll enjoy it!

..autumn..

, originally uploaded by atelier_lula.

Who said that autumn must be sad and lonely? :)