Libre Graphics Meeting

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Copying is an act of love, presentation at LGM 2013

The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual convention for the discussion of free and open source software used with graphics; The first Libre Graphics Meeting was held in March 2006.[1] Communities from Inkscape, GIMP, Krita, Scribus, sK1, Blender, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library, and more come together through the Create Project to assemble this annual conference. It was co-founded by Dave Neary and Dave Odin.

Overview

Held yearly since 2006 the Libre Graphics Meeting aims to attract developers, artists and professionals[2] who use and improve free and open source software graphics applications. LGM aims to bring these people together in the cause of creating high quality free graphics applications;[3] By collaborating it allows the development of cross-application assets like brushes and enhanced interoperability such as shared file formats.[4]

Many of the separate groups take the opportunity to hold birds of a feather (BOF) sessions. For many individuals it is the only time they will get to see their team members in person.

Presentations

Many things are discussed at each Libre Graphics Meeting, including usability, standards, announcements, color management and furthering the use of free software graphics applications in professional environments.

Kinematic templates
At the University of Waterloo some original research was done in the field of creating drawing aids for graphics applications. The aim was to allow an artist to draw using templates that would improve the shape or correctness of a brush stroke while maintaining a natural look. This presentation was given by Michael Terry, the lead researcher on the project.[5]
Professional adoption
ginger coons gave a presentation at LGM 2009 discussing what it will take to get free software graphics applications in the doors of professional environments and schools[6]

Collaboration

As well as cross pollination of ideas the Libre Graphics Meeting allows the discussion of possible future collaboration.

Louis Suárez-Potts, OpenOffice.org's Community Development Manager and Community Lead was sent to the Libre Graphics Meeting in 2007 to find ways that OpenOffice.org might be able to transcend the boundaries of a traditional office suite by collaborating with other open source projects. One of the ways that has been suggested at LGM 2007 was that open office could suggest another open source application when it could not perform the role a user required. For example when a user needed to edit an image in an office document, OpenOffice.org may suggest GIMP could fill the role required.[7]

Specific Libre Graphics Meetings

Year Dates Held Location External Links Notes
2006 March 17 to March 19 Lyon, France Website held at Ecole d'Ingénieurs CPE.
2007 May 4 to May 6 Montreal, Canada Website and Video Recordings held at Polytechnique de Montréal.
2008 May 8 to May 11 Wrocław, Poland Website and Video Recordings held at Wrocław University of Technology.
2009 May 6 to May 9 Montreal, Canada Website and Video Recordings held at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
2010 May 27 to May 30 Brussels, Belgium Website and Video Recordings held at Pianofabriek, Bruxelles.
2011 May 10 to May 13 Montreal, Canada Website and Video Recordings held at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
2012 May 2 to May 5 Vienna, Austria Website and Video Recordings held at Technikum Wien.
2013 April 10 to 13 Madrid, Spain Website and Video Recordings held at MediaLab Prado.
2014 April 2 to 5 Leipzig, Germany Website held at Leipzig University.

Main achievements

  • Addition of color management to GIMP and Inkscape. [citation needed]
  • OpenRaster initiative to develop an exchange file format for raster graphics, currently supported by Krita, GEGL and MyPaint.
  • Start of the UniConvertor project to provide Corel DRAW and WMF importers for Scribus, Inkscape and any other project willing to use them.[8]
  • KDE SC 4 graphics software now uses LibRaw instead of DCRaw to process Raw files, which is intended to achieve more consistent demosaicing, faster processing using OpenMP and better metadata extraction.[9]
  • LensFun library to automatically fix various lens distortions.[10][11]
  • Release of Open Clip Art Library 3.0.[12]
  • Release of Open Font Library publicly.[13]
  • Release of DeviantArt Developer API.
  • Public Showing of Milkymist.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Linux.com Historic Libre Graphics Meeting set for next month retrieved 10 May 2009
  2. ↑ Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
  3. ↑ http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/2011/05/11/libre-graphics-meeting-2011-brings-open-source-graphics-culture-and-developers-to-montreal/
  4. ↑ (PDF) Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 Press Release
  5. ↑ Kinematic Templates - Presentation by Michael Terry
  6. ↑ Linux Developer Network Article - "Libre Graphics Meeting 2009: Visions of the Future"
  7. ↑ Linux Format - Interview with Louis Suárez Potts
  8. ↑ A mail from UniConvertor's dveloper in VectorSection's Google Group
  9. ↑ digiKam at LGM 2008: a great event!
  10. ↑ Create Project Mailing List: Lens correction database
  11. ↑ prokoudine blog - "LGM’07-08, LensFun"
  12. ↑ http://fabricatorz.com/2011/05/open-clip-art-library-unleashes-version-3-0-collections-favorites-batch-management/
  13. ↑ http://fabricatorz.com/2011/05/launching-the-open-font-library-and-freeing-fonts/
  14. ↑ "Milkymist One Shown at Libre Graphics Meeting". Retrieved 2011-05-14. 

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