Libre Graphics Meeting
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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 May 2006. 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.
graphics applications. LGM aims to bring these people together in the cause of creating high quality free graphics applications; By collaborating it allows the development of cross-application assets like brushes and enhanced interoperability such as shared file formats.
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.
Kinematic templates
Professional adoption
Louis Suárez-Potts, OpenOffice.orgs 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.
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!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 École 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, Saint-Gilles.
|-
|2011
|May 10 to May 13
|Montreal
, Canada
|Website and Video Recordings
|held at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
|}>
Convention (meeting)
A convention, in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. The most common conventions are based upon industry, profession, and fandom...
for the discussion of free and open source software
Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
used with graphics; The first Libre Graphics Meeting was held in May 2006. Communities from Inkscape
Inkscape
Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
, GIMP
GIMP
GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
, Krita
Krita
Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...
, Scribus
Scribus
Scribus is a desktop publishing application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2...
, sK1
SK1 (program)
sK1 is an open-source illustration program for the Linux platform that can be used as a substitute for professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator...
, Blender
Blender (software)
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. The current release version is 2.60, and was released on October 19, 2011...
, Open Clip Art Library
Open Clip Art Library
The Open Clip Art Library project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that is free content.- History :The project started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips and Bryce Harrington to collect designs of flags from all around the world, having been inspired by the efforts to...
, Open Font Library
Open Font Library
The Open Font Library is a project devoted to hosting, and encouraging the creation of fonts released under Free Licenses. It is a sister project to the Open Clip Art Library and has hosted over one hundred fonts...
, and more come together through the Create Project
Create Project
The Create Project is a web-based community focused on communication and sharing between Free and Open Source Creative applications.Initially the project was created by FreeDesktop.org as a space for collaboration between free software creative projects, since then the project has become a full...
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 who use and improve free and open source softwareFree and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
graphics applications. LGM aims to bring these people together in the cause of creating high quality free graphics applications; By collaborating it allows the development of cross-application assets like brushes and enhanced interoperability such as shared file formats.
Many of the separate groups take the opportunity to hold birds of a feather
Birds of a Feather (computing)
In computing, BoF can refer to:* An informal discussion group. Unlike special interest groups or working groups, BoFs are informal and often formed in an ad-hoc manner...
(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 WaterlooUniversity of WaterlooThe University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
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.
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
Collaboration
As well as cross pollination of ideas the Libre Graphics Meeting allows the discussion of possible future collaboration.Louis Suárez-Potts, OpenOffice.orgs 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.
Specific Libre Graphics Meetings
!Year
!Dates Held
!Location
!External Links
!Notes
|-
|2006
|March 17 to March 19
|Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, France
|Website
|held at Ecole d'Ingénieurs CPE.
|-
|2007
|May 4 to May 6
|Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
|Website and Video Recordings
|held at École 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
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
|Website and Video Recordings
|held at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
|-
|2010
|May 27 to May 30
|Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Belgium
|Website and Video Recordings
|held at Pianofabriek, Saint-Gilles.
|-
|2011
|May 10 to May 13
|Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
|Website and Video Recordings
|held at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
|}>
Main achievements
- Addition of color managementColor managementIn digital imaging systems, color management is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printers, offset presses, and corresponding media.The primary goal of color...
to GIMPGIMPGIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
and InkscapeInkscapeInkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
. - OpenRasterOpenRasterOpenRaster is a file format proposed for the common exchange of layered images between raster graphics editors. It is meant as a replacement for later versions of the Adobe PSD format. OpenRaster is still in development and so far is supported by a few programs...
initiative to develop an exchange file format for raster graphicsRaster graphicsIn computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium...
, currently supported by KritaKritaKrita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...
, GEGLGEGLThe Generic Graphics Library is a programming library under development for image processing applications. It is mainly developed for GIMP in order to bring support for higher bit depth images than GIMP currently supports, as well as non-destructive editing...
and MyPaint. - Start of the UniConvertor project to provide Corel DRAW and WMF importers for ScribusScribusScribus is a desktop publishing application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2...
, InkscapeInkscapeInkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
and any other project willing to use them. - 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 OpenMPOpenMPOpenMP is an API that supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran, on most processor architectures and operating systems, including Linux, Unix, AIX, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows platforms...
and better metadata extraction. - LensFun library to automatically fix various lens distortions.
- Release of Open Clip Art Library 3.0.
- Release of Open Font Library publicly.
- Release of DeviantArtDeviantArtdeviantART is an online community showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. deviantArt, Inc...
Developer API. - Public Showing of MilkymistMilkymistThe Milkymist project is an informal organization of people and companies who develop, manufacture and sell a comprehensive open source solution for the live synthesis of interactive visual effects for VJs...
.
See also
- BlenderBlender (software)Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. The current release version is 2.60, and was released on October 19, 2011...
- Create ProjectCreate ProjectThe Create Project is a web-based community focused on communication and sharing between Free and Open Source Creative applications.Initially the project was created by FreeDesktop.org as a space for collaboration between free software creative projects, since then the project has become a full...
- Free and open source softwareFree and open source softwareFree and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
- FontforgeFontForgeFontForge is a typeface editor program developed by George Williams. FontForge is free software and is distributed under the BSD license. FontForge is available for several operating systems and is localized in several languages.- Features :Fontforge supports many font formats, including...
- GIMPGIMPGIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
- InkscapeInkscapeInkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
- KritaKritaKrita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...
- Open Clip Art LibraryOpen Clip Art LibraryThe Open Clip Art Library project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that is free content.- History :The project started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips and Bryce Harrington to collect designs of flags from all around the world, having been inspired by the efforts to...
- Open Font LibraryOpen Font LibraryThe Open Font Library is a project devoted to hosting, and encouraging the creation of fonts released under Free Licenses. It is a sister project to the Open Clip Art Library and has hosted over one hundred fonts...
- Open Source Developers' ConferenceOpen Source Developers' ConferenceThe Open Source Developers' Conference is a non-profit conference for developers of open source software.The conference is open to talks about software developed for any platform or operating system so long as the talk will be of interest to open source developers...
- OpenRasterOpenRasterOpenRaster is a file format proposed for the common exchange of layered images between raster graphics editors. It is meant as a replacement for later versions of the Adobe PSD format. OpenRaster is still in development and so far is supported by a few programs...
- PhatchPhatchPhatch is a raster graphics editor used to batch process digital graphics and photographs. Phatch can be used on the desktop as a GUI program or on the server as a console program.- Operation :...
- ScribusScribusScribus is a desktop publishing application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2...
- sK1SK1 (program)sK1 is an open-source illustration program for the Linux platform that can be used as a substitute for professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator...
External links
- Official Site
- Libre Graphics Meeting - Report 2007
- Create Project
- Linux Format articles related to Libre Graphics Meeting
- Nathan Willis, Historic Libre Graphics Meeting set for next month, Linux.com February 21, 2006
- Nick Veitch, Libre Graphics Meeting 2006, Linux Format, March 21, 2006
- Nick Veitch, "Libre graphics", Linux Format n. 80, June 2006
- Nick Veitch, Interview: Oyvind Kolas, Linux Format no. 96, September 2007
- Nick Veitch, Interview: Louis Suárez-Potts, Linux Format no. 97 (Linux Format, October 2007 ([also available online)
- Nick Veitch, Libre Graphics 2008, Linux Format no. 109, September 2008
- Ted Gould, Art meets open source at Libre Graphics Meeting, Linux.com, May 15, 2007
- Linux.com article on 2008 LGM Fundraising Drive
- Nathan Willis, Press Release for 2009 Conference, Linux.com, April 11, 2008