I am currently at ViBGYOR Film Festival. The good thing is , this festival is powered almost exclusively by FOSS. There is a report at the web site here: http://www.2010.vibgyorfilm.com/node/35
A FOSS lover's look at ViBGYOR 2010 ====================== ViBGYOR, being a socially conscious platform for expression of art, values freedom. True to its spirit, Free Software is used whenever and wherever it can be used. The media centre at the main venue is setup using Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with VLC for playing the movies and AUdacity for audio recording. The online media desk is powered exclusively by GNU/Linux. People use OOO Writer to compose their reports, press releases etc. ViBGYOR2010 website itself runs on Drupal, and microblogging is done using identi.ca ( powered by the excellent Status.net project ). Of course Firefox is the gateway to the internet for all here. DigiKam manages the slew of photos coming in and uploads it to Flickr (with CC Attribution license of course). The spirit of Free Software is truly reflected here :) This is the first time that ViBGYOR uses Free Software exclusively even though it had a pro free software approach in previous years. The online media desk in the previous years were also running on GNU/Linux. There were workshops at ViBGYOR detailing the use of Blender, Hacktivist Video production exculsively using Free and Open Source Software ( using Dyne::bolic as a platform). People tell me that Cinelerra is a preferred tool for color correction and Ardour for audio. We had to use Canon LBP2900 printer which was kind of difficult to setup. The major pain is ofcourse the local media's preference for proprietary formats like Adobe Pagemaker for Malayalam. We hope that this also will change soon. It is no coincidence that a lot of Free Software people are present here at ViBGYOR. Its the same spirit that drives them - a thirst for freedom and a vision of free society. -- aashik Mandatory Quote: "My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others." -- Jamie Zawinsky -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
