LGM2008 Press Release
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Release date: April 10, 2008
Third Annual ”Libre Graphics Meeting” Announced
Building on the overwhelming success of the two previous annual Libre Graphics Meetings in Lyon (2006) and Montreal (2007), key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the third Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in Wroclaw, Poland, May 8-11, 2008 at Wroclaw University of Technology.
This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem.
This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender – a 3D creation application, Scribus – a professional grade page layout application, GIMP – a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape – a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita – a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library – a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing or Rawstudio – an easy-to-use RAW converter.
Numerous members of the community, private companies and public organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure.
The conference offers over 30 bleeding edge presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world.
Users can support their favorite graphics application, and ensure that the travel costs of as many volunteer developers as possible are paid to ensure that this edition of the conference is even more successful than its predecessors.
All donations will be made to the conference organizers via the GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)3 tax exempt US-based non-profit, so donations will be tax deductible for US taxpayers.
Donations can be made via http://pledgie.com/campaigns/613
About Blender
Blender is a 3D package that can be used to make stills, movies, or game content. It can handle tasks like modeling, texturing, animating, compositing and many more. Blender is available for many operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Its development is quite fast, with about 2 releases each year. Some of Blender's features are so advanced that they inspired popular non-free packages.
About Scribus
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
About GIMP
The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a mature desktop application for working with raster images. It has been widely recognised over many years as a leading Free Software application. The GEGL – Generic Graphics Library –, an advanced Free Software graphics library to deal with images as graph nodes, will be the next GIMP engine. The latest developments will be demonstrated at LGM.
About Inkscape
Inkscape is the leading open source vector drawing tool available on Linux, OSX, and Windows for working with SVG files. It is used by graphics professionals for creating icons, web graphics, posters, and a variety of other 2D artwork, and is approachable even for novice artists wishing to sketch a quick diagram or drawing. Inkscape will have a number of its members at LGM to work with attendees in brainstorming new standards for open source graphics applications.
About Krita
Krita is a flexible and capable raster image application that's specially geared towards the creation of art. Illustrations, textures, backgrounds for animations, cartoons or just sketching and messing with pixels for fun. At LGM, leading Krita developers will present the application, its architecture and the progress being towards the new version which is slated for a 2008 release.
About Open Clip Art Library
The Open Clip Art Library is a large collection of user-contributed public domain clip art that can be freely used for any purpose. The 4 year old project includes over 14,000 pieces of W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) based clip art created by over 600 authors from around the world. The current progress of the Open Clip Art Library as well as hacking sessions will be a large part of its participation at LGM 2008.
About Rawstudio
Rawstudio is a raw converter for photographers with an easy to use GUI and a nice workflow, as well as a focus on multiple photo development.
Press Contact Kamila Giedrojć (kamila.giedrojc [at] gmail.com)
