Re: [CREATE] RIP Igor Novikov
Hi, I'm not sure if I can. I do not entirely belong to myself these days. Alex On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:16 PM Timothée Giet wrote: > > Hello, > > That's a sad news. My sincere condolences to his family. > > Of course we can do an "in memoriam" at this year's online LGM. > @Alexandre: Would you be able to do it ? > > Timothée > > > Le 21/03/2021 à 02:35, Alexandre Prokoudine a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > Igor Novikov passed away this Monday. I have confirmation from both > > his elder son Albert (CCed) and his wife Natalia. > > > > A question to LGM orgs: do you think you could do some sort of "in > > memoriam" at online LGM this year, same as we did in 2019 for Peter > > Linnell? > > > > Alex > > ___ > > CREATE mailing list > > CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > > > ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] RIP Igor Novikov
Hello, Igor Novikov passed away this Monday. I have confirmation from both his elder son Albert (CCed) and his wife Natalia. A question to LGM orgs: do you think you could do some sort of "in memoriam" at online LGM this year, same as we did in 2019 for Peter Linnell? Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] ORA topic presentation for Online LGM 2020
пт, 15 мая 2020 г., 18:56 InkLab App : > > For 'layer effects' : do you mean, non destructive filters? If so, this > was a very interesting problem that I have been considering for a while, > that is, implementing arbitrary functions into a file format. IT seems very > difficult to do safely, but I did have a few ideas. I would love to hear > your thoughts on this. The same idea could be applied, in a more limited > scope, to define generalized layer filters. > By the way, I think we missed an important stage here: (re)defining the goals of ORA. It used to be a long-term archival file format. Then suddenly it turned out to be a somewhat convenient file format for basic multi-layer project data exchange between applications (Krita, GIMP, and MyPaint were first to implement support for it, I think). At some point, Krita started pushing it forward with new features in their own namespace (extra blending modes). Other projects haven't followed suit yet, as far as I can tell. So what do we actually want ORA to be and why? If we want it to become a lingua franca multilayer project file format w/ basic vector graphics, a kinda libre PSD, then it makes sense to list certain expectations based on real-life use cases _before_ jumping to features implementation. Also, if/when we add features like layer effects, how much (many?) roundtripping errors can we realistically live with? Because you _will_ get those unless you standardize a fixed set of effects between applications (settings and semantics, rendering model etc.). P.S. As for speed etc., here you go: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/148466/213 (pointed out by Troy). Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] CREATE Digest, Vol 164, Issue 4
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 6:41 PM Johann ELSASS wrote: > > Hello Paul, > > I would favor backward compatibility. In this case, it would be better to > keep the layer stack structure as it is and provide a PNG in all cases. New > features would be either attributes, nodes inside existing nodes, or other > XML files within the archive. > > To Alex: For the same reason, I am not in favor either of changing the format > of the images to EXR. Though as I side note, we can specify not to compress > PNG files within the archive, as PNG is already somewhat ZIP compressed. That > can improve speed a bit. Ditching PNG in favor of EXR has nothing to do with speed and everything to do with how you store pixel data. Simply put, PNG is as much popular as it is an inferior file format. > I am not sure what you mean by affine transformations as masks. Think non-destructive rotation. Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] ORA topic presentation for Online LGM 2020
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:56 PM InkLab App wrote: > For 'layer effects' : do you mean, non destructive filters? If so, this was a > very interesting problem that I have been considering for a while, that is, > implementing arbitrary functions into a file format. Before the feature craze :) goes any further, may I suggest two ideas for OpenRaster? 1. Drop using PNG in favor of EXR to store the bitmap data. 2. Consider designing a file format that is better suited for fast saving/loading. See e.g. Ogawa file format for Alembic. Rationale: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alembic-discussion/FTG1HuuO_qA Source code: https://github.com/alembic/alembic/tree/master/lib/Alembic/Ogawa Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] OpenRaster.org now has a spot on KDE's gitlab instance.
On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 3:16 PM Wolthera wrote: > > Hey, > > Boudewijn said he had sent this, but I think he made a mistake, so > I'll just send it again. > > We asked for the openraster website to use the gitlab: > https://invent.kde.org/websites/openraster-org/ > > To login, make an account on identity.kde.org and use that to login. > Right now me and boud have commit access. I've copied over the issues > that were on the github, so we can get back to these exciting tasks! Quick question: does it include https://github.com/openraster/ora-spec/pull/2 ? Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] [LGM] Scribus 1.5.4 Released
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:08 PM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote: >> > - Color precision for fill colors has been expanded to 64 bit floating point. >> >> Is this because of... >> >> > - Scribus can now handle color palettes in the new ISO standard CxF3 >> >> ? >> >> Alex > > No, that was implemented before and independently. What was the real-life scenario that pushed you to go as deep as 64-bpc float? Thanks! Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] [LGM] Scribus 1.5.4 Released
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 5:57 PM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote: > - Color precision for fill colors has been expanded to 64 bit floating point. Is this because of... > - Scribus can now handle color palettes in the new ISO standard CxF3 ? Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Fw: CxF- colour plattes (e.g. from freie Farbe) in Open Source applications
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:06 PM "Christoph Schäfer" wrote: > 1) Handling spectral CxF data in open source applications: > > -- > - Do you know any existing open source libraries, which are converting > spectral-data to Lab ? > - If yes, it is possible to combine this library with littleCMS (e.g. to > make it easy for applications using littleCMS to convert spectral-data to > Lab and use in littleCMS ?) > - if yes, do you think it makes sense to intergrate CxF support into this > library ? > I only know of SpecEd. It's an abandoned little Qt (afaik) app that translates wavelength into CIE XYZ and sRGB. The website doesn't work anymore, but both the page and the source code are available via Web Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20150801195457/http://malat.biz/view/Projects/SpecEd Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] freieFarbe/freeColour HLC colour system to be accepted as a national standard for "Open Colour Communication" in Germany
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:17 PM Jehan Pagès wrote: Though I still think it is a very cool news, I actually join > Alexandre's questions above. > Frankly, the DIN news covers most of the concerns I've had about FreeColour/freieFarbe since its inception. I'm still unsure about the potential market penetration, because, as far as I can tell, businesses don't have to make a switch unless they do a government job, and switching to a cheaper solution implies a lot of showcases all around (the "better safe than sorry" mindset). At this point there is no telling if the FreeColour matching system is more reliable than PMS. The broad market hasn't seen the prototype yet. And IMO, that's the most intriguing part. > So my question is: from your LCH representation, can you ensure the > creation of an ink so that 2 unrelated people could create the same > color? > If it does work reliably, it removes part of the "black box" effect that PMS has on the industry. Which would be quite good already. That said, reliability depends a lot on the print shop. There would be a long transition period. Personally, I couldn't care less if someone is being hostile towards Pantone or telling they got no real color matching system (they are big boys, they can take care of themselves). If it takes a few more years to showcase a real print run of 100K copies of anything in full color and metallic inks, all done with Scribus and spot colors from FreeColour, then so be it. The market will decide for itself. Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] freieFarbe/freeColour HLC colour system to be accepted as a national standard for "Open Colour Communication" in Germany
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 4:28 PM Jehan Pagès wrote: Also what is SBZ? I assumed some kind of format, but it would only > return me some video project extension from some software. > It's the file format of SwatchBooker. http://www.selapa.net/swatchbooker/ https://github.com/olivierberten/SwatchBooker FreeColour uses it for the original (unconverted) color palettes. I have no idea if they extended the file format beyond what's in the latest code in SwatchBooker's Git. You'd have to ask Christoph about that. Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] freieFarbe/freeColour HLC colour system to be accepted as a national standard for "Open Colour Communication" in Germany
1 дек. 2017 г. 7:35 пользователь "Jehan Pagès" написал: Not sure what we could do though since printing is not our specialty Writing SBZ loader for GIMP would be a good start :) Especially since we now have LCH all around. Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] freieFarbe/freeColour HLC colour system to be accepted as a national standard for "Open Colour Communication" in Germany
1 дек. 2017 г. 6:36 пользователь Christoph Schäfer написал: We're currently cooperating with ink manufacturers in Germany and Switzerland to establish ink formulas for HLC colours that cannot be reproduced in CMYK, aka as spot colours Since you already have a prototype, are you talking about metallic inks? This is a real colour system and not just a colour collection like Pantone or RAL. How do you define a real color system? Most importantly, it is a free and open alternative to Pantone & co, which is not only better, Better in what way? At what stage of work within DIN will ink formulas be published one way or another? Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] ORA spec, next step
Hello, Apparently one of the roadblocks towards further work on the OpenRaster file format was having to deal with the FreeDesktop wiki as opposed to GitHub: https://github.com/openraster/ora-spec/issues/1 Well, there you go: https://github.com/openraster/ora-spec/pull/2 Unsure if it's enough to kickstart the work on the spec again, but it's worth trying :) Alex ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] CREATE Digest, Vol 102, Issue 7
15 янв. 2014 г. 6:13 пользователь Susan Spencer susan.spen...@gmail.com написал: Can LGM adopt the PSF policy as a temporary measure? http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Policy It says among other things: [Exhibitors in the expo hall, sponsor or vendor booths, or similar activities are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, exhibitors should not use sexualized images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualized clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualized environment.] Now, I've been at events where companies slightly overdo sexualized clothing of female participants up to the point where it begins to look (disgustingly) slutty. But guess what -- it's just my opinion. I have my own standards and don't expect everybody else to comply, although I reserve the right to grumble :) Making the event comfortable for extreme feminists increases the possibility of hysterical behavior at the event, and the last thing I want LGM to become famous for is some overreacting feminist (of any sex) in boring colorless unisex clothes getting riled up because of someone else having a V-neck not complying with the feminist's internal standards. In a nutshell, if you are going to adopt this, please use common sense and drop the parts of CoC that increase the possibility of someone being a self-righteous jerk. If we can't joke about the tight pants of LGM2010 anymore, we might as well focus on reaching singularity and drop all bodily hints when we talk. Alexandre ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Reimbursements in advance?
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Konstantin Dmitriev wrote: Hello! At the last year's LGM, during the final discussion it was mentioned that for some cases it is possible to get travel reimbursements prepaid in advance. So, my question: is that really possible? First let's be done with 2013 reimbursements before LGM2014 starts, shall we? :) Alexandre ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Free and legal download of Pantone colour palettes from Adobe
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: Oh WAIT! There is no legalese on that page, but for a 'CC-NC-SA' stamp at the end, and the files are simple zips to be downloaded from a URL featuring the CC'ed text as their parent - and containing no license or legal text themselves. So I guess - that is the actual use license. It still will have some restrictions to use in all projects due to the Non Comercial bit on the license, though - but as I see it it could be used in comunity maintained add-ons (plug-ins, pallete files in different repositories) without problems. Don't get overexcited. CC license applies to the documentation only. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] swatches
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Olivier Berten wrote: I indeed stopped working at it as it seemed nobody was interested in it (on the developers' side at least).. On the developers' side -- maybe. As for users, SB would probably get more attention if it had features similar to those of Gpick - color harmony tools etc. In general, I feel that SB is underpromoted (which is my fault too). Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] swatches
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Craig Bradney wrote: Hi Sounds like a good idea. I guess my question is how fast is the format developing? That is, per the website: Limitations Colors only. Support for gradients, color schemes, patterns, textures is expected for version 0.8 Wondering if it makes sense to start if 1.0 is due soon. Thoughts? As far as I can tell, Olivier isn't currently working on this project. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Call for proposals for GSoC Doc Camp, Mountain View Dec. 3-7
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: https://gitorious.org/~manuq/mypaint/xsheet-mypaint We did a complete short film with it so kind of works. I would like to convert it to a real traditional animation software in the future, when I find time. But you didn't push all the latest changes? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Call for proposals for GSoC Doc Camp, Mountain View Dec. 3-7
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: But you didn't push all the latest changes? Is all there for animating, just didn't push the ugly hack to paint the cells. I would consider another tool for that, one that uses a flood fill algorithm. Ah, got it, thanks :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] libmspub (WAS: Sample files from older programs for those who would like to re-engineer)
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:18 AM, ale rimoldi wrote: the publisher format is indeed far more interesting... depending on how well the publisher importer works, i could try to find somebody willing to implement the scribus part for it... still, i don't really see many chances that somebody from the team will do it before the 1.6 release. so, we will have to look for new (or returning) developers. but libmspub seems to still be at the 0.0.0 release... No. It's 0.0.2+ this does not really send out the signal that projects other than oo/lo should use it... Maybe two final questions from my side: - how good do you think could be the quality of the import through libmspub library in scribus? which elements will exactly match? which will be just there? (text, images, word arts, ...)? which won't be there? http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/microsoft-publisher-converter-officially-released what will the reaction of the user after having imported they're real world files into scribus and wanting to continue their work in scribus? I don't understand this question. I suppose they would be pleased to see that pretty much everything opens except embedded OLE-objects. do you have some test results with libre/open-office to give an idea? (screenshot of the original, screenshot of the imported file, imported file) Same URL as above - how much work do you think it will take to integrate it? hours? weeks? months? do you have an idea? https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/lp1015572/+merge/114040/+preview-diff/+files/preview.diff Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] libregraphicsworld.org return 403 for all urls
Yes, I know, thanks On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Jakub Jankiewicz jcu...@onet.pl wrote: Anyone know to whom it should be send that the site http://libregraphicsworld.org/ is down (it's return forbidden for all urls) Jakub -- www: http://jcubic.pl twitter: http://twitter.com/jcubic blog: http://jcubic.wordpress.com ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create -- Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] DEADLINE REMINDER MAY 31 - LGM 2012 Reimbursement
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote: * R E M I N D E R * Hi LGMers ! For those who are entitled to a reimbursement for their travel expenses *and who have not yet filed the form*, please go to page: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2012/reimbursements/ You will get a confirmation email once you hit the submit button. Deadline for submitting your receipts is *May 31, 2012.* Maybe post to LGM blog, G+ and twitter too? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] recordings of the lgm 2012
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Timothée Giet wrote: Hi, I can do the post-prod work if needed; Fine with me :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] swatches
Hi folks, Not sure if Olivier Berten is attending LGM, but maybe you could discuss unified swatches file format? Personally, I'd like to see SwatchBooker's file format being used as one (probably extended to feature bitmap materials), so that we could promote best practices of creating swatches. But that's just me :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] videos at lgm
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:06 AM, ale rimoldi ale.comp...@xox.ch wrote: bringing a spare camera to the LGM won't really help, as long as you don't find somebody ready to spend days in doing the post production work. If raw stuff is uploaded, I can do the postprocessing, no problem. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] videos at lgm
Folks, So far it looks like we don't have videos recorded this year. If anyone's attending with a camera (s)he can spare, don't hesitate to make those not attending a wee bit happier people :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] best practices of 3rd party data embedding
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: * Right now cdr2xhtml uses litlecms based conversion to sRGB via SWOP v5 profile. Just for the sake of clarification, that's fallback scenario. The default behavior is using embedded profiles for color managed conversion to sRGB. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] best practices of 3rd party data embedding
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Chris Lilley wrote: AP Corel DRAW embeds ICC profiles to CDR files to map colors to. AP Conceptually it's pretty much what SVG does with the whole icc-color AP thing. So *technically* it's possible to extract embedded ICC profiles AP and re-embed them to an output SVG file, then map all colors via AP icc-color accordingly *. That would be the preferred solution, assuming the profiles CDR uses are valid and sensible. OK (Personally that's what I think too) AP But how does it look like from legal standpoint? Should embedding be AP opt-in? Or should there be some API for annoying users with a legal AP question they probably wouldn't care to answer? I think there is something in the ICC header about embedability vs. standalone use of the profile. Aha, thanks. I googled a bit, and it looks like you are referring to uFlags. Thanks! Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Questions about the Libre Graphics brand
2012/4/11 Gábor Udvari gabor.udv...@gmail.com: Hi, I am Gábor Udvari, 25 years old free software enthusiast from Hungary, web-developer by profession, but a wanna-be artist contributing to OpenArena, Battle for Wesnoth (Hungarian community), Ubuntu (Hungarian community) and Firefox (Hungarian community). I would like to ask some questions about the Libre Graphics brand, if such thing exists or not, and what's the connection between the Libre Graphics World and the Libre Graphics Magazine. Hungary is a small country with less than 10 million people, thus the number of free software volunteers is extremely small. Due to this small number only a handful of free software communities can manage a separate homepage, and even those homepages which exist are often abandoned or outdated. The two examples of this are http://gimp.hu, which was not updated since 2009, and http://blender.hu which is quite active, but the design and the UX is stuck in the 90s. Other free software community homepages like Inkscape or Scribus are not even started. News, such like the Liberated Pixel Cup (http://lpc.opengameart.org/) do not have a place and they cannot reach the proper audience. Therefore I was thinking that instead of trying to improve every single community homepage, I should start a free software graphical portal to bind all the little communities and effort together. An important part of starting such an undertaking is branding. I would like to ask about the possibilities and conditions of using the Libre Graphics or Libre Graphics World brand as a title of a Hungarian portal, like libregraphicsworld.hu . Is Libre Graphics a brand on its own? What is the connection between Libre Graphics World, Libre Graphics Magazine and Libre Graphics Meeting? Can I start a Hungarian portal to support the libre graphics movement, can we be part of the family? Since Libre Graphics Meeting is coming to Vienna this year, this would be an excellent year to start a community project in a country next to Austria. Eagerly waiting for your reply: Gábor Udvari Hi Gábor, Libre Graphics Meeting was started in 2006 as an extended version of the annual GIMP developers meeting. Organizers are usually more affiliated with Scribus project than with any other project. Libre Graphics World was started in 2009 by me a) as an English version of linuxgraphics.ru (started in 2006) and b) as a result of some discussions at LGM2009. I don't really remember the exact reasons for the name picking, AFAIK, I just needed something familiar and I wasn't imaginative enough. Libre Graphics Magazine was started, AFAIK, in late 2010 by ginger coons and Manufactura Independente. I'm not sure I know the exact reasoning either. Perhaps the editorial staff will explain that. All three LG* projects are friends, but, to the best of my knowledge, not officially affiliated. At least this is the case for LGW. In my opinion, Libre Graphics World is an unfortunate choice for the brand name, but so far I haven't been able to come up with anything more sensible. I don't have a particular opinion about libregraphicsworld.hu right now other than it's a damn too long name that people are going to hate and fail to understand :) I'm CCing my reply to CREATE mailing list where LGM and LGmag folks reside. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] OpenRaster: version numbering
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Andrew Chadwick wrote: On 29/03/12 21:50, Andrew Chadwick wrote: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/OpenRaster/Draft/VersionNumber - let me know what you think, and feel free to edit it. Final call for comments on this before I integrate it into the main part of the specification and hack it into what MyPaint writes. May I assume that there's nothing controversial about having a version number, nor its location, nor its format? Do you want anyone from LibreOffice to have a go at it in terms of best practices etc.? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] mail approvals
Hi, For some silly reason create list got premoderation (at least ale's mail is stuck in the queue), I don't think I ever had an admin password and I don't see a way to reclaim it. If Jon or Brad can fix that premoderation sillyness, I'd be much obliged. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] ORA spec: adding additional layer effects
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Andrew Chadwick wrote: The OpenRaster spec currently states (working from memory here) that ORA files may use uses the SVG compositing ops[1]. These do not provide colorize layer modes, nor modes for luminosity-setting, hue-setting or saturation-setting. I've just asked in w3s svg mailing list, and Rik Cabanier replied: I'm working on a new CSS composting spec that will add those missing blend modes. There will be a new CSS keyword 'blending' that will let you specify a blend mode on an HTML or SVG element. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] ORA spec: adding additional layer effects
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Andrew Chadwick wrote: Is there any reason why GIMP and Krita aren't (by quick experimentation and/or code analysis) using this? It was a too quick one :) GIMP relies on Lab for doing compositing in Color blending mode when Use GEGL checkbox is enabled. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Google event microdata
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Jakub Jankiewicz wrote: I just read about Event microdata that google support http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=164506 If libre graphics meeting will have these in html it will show in search result so LGM page will be more visible in search result. For what search queries? :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] wiki
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Martin Renold wrote: Now the wiki is both spammed and write-protected at the same time. Any idea where to migrate http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenRaster to? It was great to have some inter-project-ish dumping space - we could move it to the MyPaint wiki, but it seems wrong to attach it to a single project. Gitorious projects have internal wiki. Didn't OpenRaster use to have such a project? For either library or the GIMP plug-in? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] lgm feed on graphicsplanet
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:27 PM, ale rimoldi ale.comp...@xox.ch wrote: prokoudine, could you please add the feed of the lgm 2012 blog to the graphics planet? http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2012/feed/ Sure, as soon as I get back to computer with a Git checkout and an SSH key later today. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] lgm feed on graphicsplanet
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: could you please add the feed of the lgm 2012 blog to the graphics planet? http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2012/feed/ Sure, as soon as I get back to computer with a Git checkout and an SSH key later today. Done. If you have time, please add a prominent link to the RSS feed for those who just want to subscribe without ransacking source code of the page :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM in Vienna - Location acknowleged
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Louis Desjardins louis.desjard...@gmail.com wrote: Would we agree on a much tighter process like giving from Jan15 to March1st to propose a talk. Then we make the program over the next 2-3 weeks. By April1st we have the program online instead of having it the day before LGM. We'd still be opened for lightning talks and BoFs that can be done while the show goes on. So, it's 5 months till the conference and: - http://libregraphicsmeeting.org still doesn't respond - presumably we have no idea where we are with finances - presumably we don't have a logo for the conference yet - presumably we don't have a website for it either What am I missing? I can help with writing text, HTML and whatnot. Needless to say, I can pass the information to communities. But I have a short attention span and I'd feel obliged if you spared me the ever-returning discussion on CMS vs. static HTML and other annoying crap. I've got a supply of that for years to come. Could we please start caring about the conference so much that we actually organized it in advance? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] fosdem 2012
Hi, It looks like quite a few people here are attending FOSDEM. Would you folks be interested to tell us who you are and what/when you will be talking about? Just so that you know who you could be looking for :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM in Vienna - Location acknowleged
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Peter Linnell wrote: It would be very useful to have something at http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2012/ even if it is merely a heading and some placeholder text. All the access info is on backups I carried over on my move. On the todo for the week. Once we have it running, could we please start early(ier) talk submissions? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM in Vienna - Location acknowleged
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote: All the access info is on backups I carried over on my move. On the todo for the week. Once we have it running, could we please start early(ier) talk submissions? Would we agree on a much tighter process like giving from Jan15 to March1st to propose a talk. Then we make the program over the next 2-3 weeks. By April1st we have the program online instead of having it the day before LGM. We'd still be opened for lightning talks and BoFs that can be done while the show goes on. Fixed core talks + flexible lightning talks schedule sounds good to me :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] wiki
Hi, We need an administrative decision. Currently we don't have anyone actively maintaining the CREATE wiki, so spammers get through anyway and have a linkfest. Personally I'm too busy with other projects and can't be around all the time. As far as I can tell, we have quite a fixed amount of people who contribute there, and it's not like the activity rivalled that of Wikipedia. How about we have invite-only registration in the wiki? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] wiki
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Jon Phillips wrote: Do you mean we do not use the wiki anymore ? I use it a lot for LGM and it's going to be the same next year. I think that what Alexandre is suggesting is fine. Unless there are drawbacks I am not aware of. Ok, right. Just lock registrations on the wiki. done. Thanks heaps :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] VSD/VSS reverse-engineered
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: And now there is a libvisio v0.0.1 (in C++). http://libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=812 And now libvisio is at 0.0.7, supporting lots of things and making VSD mostly very readable (for LibreOffice you still want a build from Git to support some features such as elliptic arcs). More info is here: http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=41 Alexandre ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM 2012 in Vienna?
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:26 PM, S.Kemter wrote: Time to say something about that event in Vienna Sounds good to me. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Create resources stuff
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Camille Bissuel wrote: Maybe the Alexandre Prodoukine's It's Prokoudine, thank you :) or the a.l.e.'s http://www.freegraphicdesigner.org/ Whois doesn't know about this domain. are suitable if they agree. As for LGW, we are in the middle of switching to a new CMS, and while we might implement a GHNS compatible module in the future, chances to get it here and now are fairly slim. Besides I would rather prefer this would-be generic GHNS server to be an independent entity regarding myself. I don't think a new domain is such a big deal. The question really is whether you have people to maintain it. Location and name are second important. The Open Font Library story should have been a lesson in that respect, I think. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Inkscape questions
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Yuval Levy wrote: I need a historical perspective. 1. has the project become more popular / received massively more bug reports in 2011 than in 2008? Can't say for sure. 2. has the project lost resources / people that were working through the bug reports to triage and fix them? Yes. See below. 3. who was responsible for the stellar 2008 performace of bringing down the count of untriaged bugs to less than 100? When we moved from SF to Launchpad, there was an active team of half a dozen of people (at least) who worked on it. are these people still around? still active? Only few. 4. how have developers reacted to the restructured tracker? has the project seen more bug fixes in 2008 than in previous years? and if so, has the pace slowed down since? why? The kind of tracker has nothing to do with amount of bugfixes. 5. how has the devs team evolved over the 2008 to 2011 period? have some key players reduced their involvment / left the prject? motives? have new key player emerged? was there a generational transition and if yes was it managed? how? 2007-2008 was when last people from the initial team gradually stopped contributing. We never completely recovered since then. Of the old crew only Jon Cruz is around (some of the old team is working on 2geom library, our side project). Right now we are down to just few people who actually fix bugs and several GSoC students who have became regular contributors. Bugs triaging is done by mostly one bugfixer and another person who isn't developer. Last but not least, I have bumped across two Inkscape limitations and I was wondering how useful is the Inkscape bug tracker at this point in time: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/775226 Wrong tool. Use Scribus. 1. Create a new page with frames for images. 2. Group those frames. 3. Send this group to scrapbook. 4. Drag this group from scrapbook on every new page. Note that you can create different compositions of frames and save them all in your scrapbook, then just drag onto canvas whichever you need at the moment. As for sharpening, nothing prevents you from doing selective sharpening on just the images you need. This is what both bitmap filters (ImageMagick based) and SVG filters are for. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/797164 Can't comment on this one much. especially the first one is very much annoying me and I would classify it as critical, but I know too little about the project and its aims to know if such a classification would fit the project's vision. Some smarter interpolation methods like those that keep penetrating GEGL thanks to Nicolas and Adam would be nice indeed. However unsharp mask and co. are always the last word, interpolation regardless. You have it in Inkscape already. Is there such a thing as an Inkscape user survey? Not that I know of. I think we shall do one later this year. However, as you will surely understand, given how few developers we have around, some kind of survey might indeed help us understand things, but won't help us do much about it. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Create resources stuff
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:50 AM, j...@rejon.org wrote: Why not just put it at http://create.freedesktop.org/stuff Very few things, if any, are easier to memorize than http://third-level.domain.foo/directory/ :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] VSD/VSS reverse-engineered
Hi, We (re-lab) pushed first public reverse-engineered documentation on Microsoft Visio binary file formats, VSD and VSS. The news is here: http://libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=798 Valek is indeed in contact with LibreOffice student and mentor who work on VSD support this year. If anybody else (Calligra/Flow?) is interested, you don't have the excuse of closed proprietary file format anymore :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM REIMBURSEMENTS
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Louis Desjardins louis.desjard...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The deadline is/was not meant as to be a mean not to reimburse people but in fact to accelerate the process. Many people have not yet filled the reimbursement form and they should do it asap. Here is the page: http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/reimbursement/ Could it be slightly more effective to just mail everyone who registered for the conference? Not everyone's reading create@ maybe? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] can you give us access to the Flickr LGM group?
On 5/16/11, ricardo lafuente wrote: Gah, you're totally right. Late night browsings make me derp a little. Mind you, if anyone's wiling to co-admin the group, just say the word. I also set a nickname for the group finally: 'lgm was already taken, so I settled for libregfx to coincide with our twitter account. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Announcement: Libre Graphics magazine 1.2 is out now
On 3/22/11, ginger coons wrote: Good news! (Which you're more than welcome to redistribute and cross-post.) Last night, we released issue 1.2 of Libre Graphics magazine. This issue, exploring themes of Use Cases and Affordances, is pretty darn good, if we do say so ourselves. We look at workflow, vectors as pixels, and also have an in-detail interview with the people behind AdaptableGIMP. For those who want to check it out (and we hope you all do), you can order a copy (http://libregraphicsmag.com/buy.html) or read the PDF version ( http://libregraphicsmag.com/download.html). Heck, do both! Download the Low-res version (3 mb, good for slow internet connections) The file is 16MB actually. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Announcement: Libre Graphics magazine 1.2 is out now
On 3/22/11, ginger coons wrote: Good news! (Which you're more than welcome to redistribute and cross-post.) Last night, we released issue 1.2 of Libre Graphics magazine. This issue, exploring themes of Use Cases and Affordances, is pretty darn good, if we do say so ourselves. We look at workflow, vectors as pixels, and also have an in-detail interview with the people behind AdaptableGIMP. For those who want to check it out (and we hope you all do), you can order a copy (http://libregraphicsmag.com/buy.html) or read the PDF version ( http://libregraphicsmag.com/download.html). Heck, do both! Another thing: cover previews are absent. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Announcement: Libre Graphics magazine 1.2 is out now
On 3/23/11, ginger coons wrote: Does it count as absent if we've never done them? For a design product -- yes, it does :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM2011: Pledgie, call for papers, marketing push
On 3/10/11, Jon Nordby wrote: Hey guys, 2 months to LGM2011 now! It looks like the March 1th deadline for the pledgie and call for papers has slipped? What is going on, do we have everything under control? What are the issues blocking these items, how can people help? To whomever is in charge for the Pledgie, the link to Jake's video on Vimeo doesn't work: the video has been deleted. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM2011: Pledgie, call for papers, marketing push
On 3/16/11, jon wrote: To whomever is in charge for the Pledgie, the link to Jake's video on Vimeo doesn't work: the video has been deleted. What? Which part of the message exactly causes confusion? :) I clicked the link earlier today to watch the video, and Vimeo told me it wasn't there. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM11 panel proposal: attracting new devs
On 2/19/11, Yuval Levy wrote: For the past four years Hugin had an good flow of contributors - developers, builders, translators, documenters, designers. Most coders come, implement one or two nice features, and go. I would estimate 50% are Google Summer of Code students and 50% come out of the blue with an entry on the Tracker such as [0] or [1]. Many (if not most) of them are not very active in the (users) community and I assume the motivation is scratch your own itches. It's quite the same with Inkscape, except that some of the students stick and continue working past their projects. But GSoC has really been giving us 50% of new stuff in final releases. I won't quote the rest of your reply, because I simply agree :) However I'm strongly against the idea of getting just developers involved. There's heaps of work to do in the usability and design department wherever you look. GIMP team has been benefitting from work with Peter Sikking for some years now, Krita team worked with him as well a year ago, Scribus team reportedly has an interested usability engineer since recently, but most other projects are on their tod. IMO it needs full attention. We can't just pile new code on top of other code and get away with that. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] LGM Lab — Consultation
On 1/21/11, Louis Desjardins wrote: Now, while we are discussing this marvelous idea, we realize that the week-end before LGM happens to be the one with Mothers' Day (Sunday May 8) and ICGQ is letting me know that this would not be the better week-end for such activity since a lot of people might be away in their family for the week-end. They then propose we do the Lab day on the Saturday AFTER LGM. Hence my question to you... What do you think ? Will there be more developers willing to go to ICGQ after or before LGM ? After Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Transmediale + FOSDEM LGM Meetups?
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:04 PM, j...@rejon.org j...@rejon.org wrote: Hi all, myself and part of Fabricatorz team (Christopher Adams and Barry Threw) will be in Berlin starting Monday for a book sprint about the open web, and then doing a Sharism Presents (http://sharism.org/presents) event at http://Transmediale.de Will others be at Transmediale and/or interested in a LGM/Create meetup? Also, we could pull together a meetup like we did last year at FOSDEM to talk about LGM2011. http://twitter.com/musescore/status/27489740563419136 You definitely want hanging out with MuseScore team. IMO it's the best free/libre score editor today, and they are into sharism in form of open sheet music now: http://musescore.com/sheetmusic Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Reclaim your tools. A film by Jakub Szypulka
On 1/12/11, Jakub Szypulka wrote: to happen. I assure you that it will not be the case in the next LGM. (given that there will be women to film ;) Last time in Montreal the ratio was maybe 1:10 as in women:men. It's up to you to decide if you go for proportional approach :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Reclaim your tools. A film by Jakub Szypulka
On 1/12/11, ginger coons wrote: f) Every year, we do better. anecdote From my first LGM (Montreal, 2007) 2007... Er... We surely do better every year then, because I've just checked my pictures from 2007 (few hundreds) and I find them quite gingerless. Whereas 2009 and 2010 pictures are, on the contrary, gingerful (in moderation). Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Reclaim your tools. A film by Jakub Szypulka
On 1/12/11, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra wrote: This video not show the spirit of LGM : conference : speaker point of view, people point of view, some very beautiful slide workshop : see people working, see exchange between people and the animator (the image of cedric gemy is so little to understand the specification of workshop) working group/reunion : see developer and user think about a problem (see some passionate exchange like in the svg group ^^) LGM is graphic : see the OSP show I think I have to defend Jakub here :), because we simply don't know what kind of overall footage he had before he started editing, as well as we don't know if he planned doing anything before the actual event. It's not as if he had a time machine to travel back and do some additional footage ;) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] lgm2011, talks, finances
Hi, A littlle less than five months till the next LGM now. Should we start collecting talk proposals now? Does anybody want to start a new Pledgie campaign too? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] Summing up 2010
Hi, Here come an overview of what was happening to free mediacontent production software over the year: http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=26 Unfortunately, I didn't find it possible to cover every major project, in fact I even had to strip LuxRender/YafaRay to keep the story shorter. I hope you can bear with that. Have a great holiday season! Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] lgm. the movie
Hi, Any news on the movie project by Cube? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Dec Reimbursement Inquery
On 12/13/10, Louis Desjardins wrote: Emails are great but in this particular and sensible case where money is involved and people waiting for it we need the three-way handshake: I send you an email, you send me a confirmation that you got it and I send you a confirmation that I know you got it. Why not customize some simple bug tracker? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1 is available to read, buy and modify
On 11/16/10, ginger coons wrote: http://libregraphicsmag.com/download.html). However, if you're interested in a print copy, it's even easier to buy a copy, available for $12 (CAD). We're also offering subscriptions at $45 (CAD) for four issues, or $100 (CAD) at the Supporter tier, which gets you four issues, lots of gratitude and maybe even a nice thank you note. (Buy: http://libregraphicsmag.com/buy.html) The Pledgie campaign stays? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1 is available to read, buy and modify
On 11/21/10, ginger coons wrote: The Pledgie campaign stays? For now, yes. It's for anyone who, for some reason, really doesn't want a print copy but still wants to offer some financial support to the project. Ah, thanks for the clarification :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Questions and reflections about gradients
On 11/4/10, Olivier BERTEN wrote: * I don't see the point in Foreground/Background colors http://www.mail-archive.com/create@lists.freedesktop.org/msg01272.html ;-) I see even less the point in having gradients swatches defined with Foreground/Background colors... This is a feature you can find in Photoshop and Gimp gradients. For sure I don't see how it would be useful in an exchange format... Inkscape doesn't have FG/BG colors in gradients, even though we were criticized for that some months ago (the discussion was in inkscape-devel@) :) IMO, start and end are the best you can get really. FG/BG are just common conventions many people got used to. But even for gradients fg/bg and start/end don't have to make sense. If you look at Mandelbulber's Shaders tab, you'll see a kind of gradient that controls coloring of a 3D fractal. The concept of start and end is quite washed out there. * I think the segment concept of Gimp isn't really interesting since the position of a segment start has to be the same as the end of the previous one, and in 99% of the cases, the color is the same too. For the 1% left, you can create another stop at the same position. OTOH things like blending function and coloring type for segments in GIMP's gradients can be of use. * Is there any free software dealing with noise gradients? Not that I know of. Noise gradients are entirely a Photoshop thing to the best of my knowledge. I have to admit though we haven't looked at any of Corel PSP's assets (mostly because the installer doesn't wish to work on wine out of box). Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine Pledgie campaign
On 10/23/10, Jon Nordby wrote: On 23 October 2010 10:55, ginger coons gin...@adaptstudio.ca wrote: I can indeed shed some light. We're planning to print a 96 page publication, half colour, at Mardigrafe in Montreal. It costs $7,403 CAD to print 1000 copies. For double that price, we could do 5000 copies, but $15,000 dollars seems like an unrealistic goal right now. The extra money built into the goal is there with the intention of having a little wiggle room, as well as being able to finance shipping large boxes of magazines, which is the heart of our distribution strategy. Essentially, within the number of copies we have, we'll gladly send a box to anyone who is attending an event and wants to hand some out. This issue, we're hoping to send some along to FOSSASIA and I'll be taking some to the HTMlles festival (a digital art fest in Montreal) as well as on classroom visits to design schools. We'll also be offering copies for sale online. At the moment, I'm looking into order fulfilment services which might be suited to doing this job. Hope that gives an idea of printing goals and distribution strategy. This information should be readily available on your Pledgie page. To actually get donations, it is fundamental to communicate what people are helping to achieve by donating. Some sneak peaks/teasers might be beneficial too. Bump :-) P.S. There is a space missing between , blog. and Contact us. at http://libregraphicsmag.com/ Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine Pledgie campaign
On 11/1/10, ginger coons wrote: Bump :-) http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13812 Now with more details about goals and distribution. Thanks, that's already a lot better. But... No pretty pictures yet? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Sozi : animated presentations with Inkscape
On 10/26/10, Camille Bissuel wrote: Hi all, just a few words to annouce that a french dev (Guillaume Savaton) has just released an interesting extension for Inkscape called Sozi, wich allow to create simply animated presentation with svg and javascript : http://sozi.baierouge.fr/wiki/doku.php Sadly, no :) Release = available to download :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine Pledgie campaign
On 10/24/10, jon wrote: Why not just sell them? Taxation Truly yours, Captain Obvious :) ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine Pledgie campaign
On 10/23/10, Jon Nordby wrote: On 23 October 2010 10:55, ginger coons wrote: I can indeed shed some light. We're planning to print a 96 page publication, half colour, at Mardigrafe in Montreal. It costs $7,403 CAD to print 1000 copies. For double that price, we could do 5000 copies, but $15,000 dollars seems like an unrealistic goal right now. The extra money built into the goal is there with the intention of having a little wiggle room, as well as being able to finance shipping large boxes of magazines, which is the heart of our distribution strategy. Essentially, within the number of copies we have, we'll gladly send a box to anyone who is attending an event and wants to hand some out. This issue, we're hoping to send some along to FOSSASIA and I'll be taking some to the HTMlles festival (a digital art fest in Montreal) as well as on classroom visits to design schools. We'll also be offering copies for sale online. At the moment, I'm looking into order fulfilment services which might be suited to doing this job. Hope that gives an idea of printing goals and distribution strategy. Okay, thanks, Ginger :) But pretty please add that to both pledgie and lgmag pages. Some sneak peaks/teasers might be beneficial too. Yes, a couple of good looking spreads never do a harm :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] welcome dvdauthor :)
Hi, ChangeLog for newly released dvdauthor 0.7.0 (CLI apps for DVD authoring) has this line: Implement configuration of default video format as per the proposal at http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Video_Format_Pref. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine Pledgie campaign
On 10/22/10, ginger coons wrote: Libre Graphics Magazine issue 1.1 is getting ready to go to press. We've got lots of exciting articles, design and art work and other very nice Libre Graphics content ready to go. So now, we're running a Pledgie drive to get our finances up to the necessary level, as far as printing is concerned. OK, so the Pledgie is about printing. But nowhere it is explained where it will be printed and how printed copies will be distributed. Could you please shed some light on that? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] ORA fullscreen viewers
On 9/10/10, Martin Renold wrote: I don't expect an ORA viewer to implement many blending modes (if at all), nor to render a tiled pattern. Why not? Both PSD and XCF loaders for gdk_pixbuf support blending modes. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] ORA fullscreen viewers
On 9/10/10, Martin Renold wrote: Why not? Both PSD and XCF loaders for gdk_pixbuf support blending modes. There are too many useful blending modes; colorize can be done in LAB, over can be done in linear light. With only over a nested layer tree can be rendered flat. We need to draw the line somewhere. Or improve Pixman and Cairo :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Day 2011
On 9/6/10, ryan lerch wrote: Hi all! The Libre Graphics Day miniconf has been approved for linux.conf.au 2011! Additionally, the call for participation is now open too! No, it's already closed :) The call for proposals has closed. Your submission will be added to a waiting list. And the main page never said about deadlines for the call. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Art Montréal (was Re: LGM 2011 - Montreal - May 10-11-12-13)
On 9/8/10, Schrijver wrote: As a connection point, Libre graphics does not only have a relation to the traditional graphic processes but also I think to developments like generative design and software art. You can see this in projects like Shoebot and Nodebox but for example also the ‘processing’ language http://processing.org/ —that’s an important software tool in this respect and its a free and open source project. Actually maybe we could invite someone from their team? That should be fairly easy: FLOSS Manuals is right now having book sprint on Processing, and Elisa is there :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Open Source Fashion Software Update
On 8/21/10, Susan Spencer wrote: I would like to say thank you to the open source graphics community. I received much support, direction and advice to get this project started at this year's LGM. Since then, I've begun to learn Python, Inkscape, and implement SVG specs. I would not have attempted this if I hadn't been at LGM. OK, inkscape.org now has a small news story on that. Let me know if something in the text should be fixed :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/18/10, Camille Bissuel wrote: Hi all, Let's try a design suicide by posting some sketchs on a creative peoples mailing list ;) So, I've started to sketch this new website : http://www.yagraph.org/images/create/draft-web-create-news.png http://www.yagraph.org/images/create/draft-web-create-peoples.png http://www.yagraph.org/images/create/draft-web-create-projects.png Just one minor design unrelated note: it's people, not peoples :-) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Camille Bissuel wrote: Alexandre, do you agree to move some of your contents, like the FAQs for the main application or your software web links, on the same website to make things more coherent ? FAQs in their current form are of little use. It was an idea that didn't work. Feel free to use the text, I will remove it next week probably. The software catalog (weblinks) will stay. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/13/10, a.l.e wrote: i have the feeling that CREATE, in its current form, can't manage most of those tasks. There is a question I didn't ask in the very beginning (LGM, then first thread in this list), but I feel I have to ask anyway. How exactly will establishing an association help to start promotion of free software in places, where target audience hangs around? - it's too close to a suite which already leads the largest parts of the market we want to take over. You know, one of the really huge problems I've seen in the community is an urge to take over market while not providing viable solutions for that very market. p.s.: i was not aware that CREATE had activities outside of the graphics field. Because we failed to establish a solid two-way connection, obviously. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/13/10, Camille Bissuel wrote: Why FSF is needed ? Why Mozilla foundation is needed ? Can't you see the great benefit of the Blender foundation for Blender ? Have you an idea of the huge work they do ? You know, I actually wrote a lengthy reply to each of your very nice, albeit purely rhetoric questions. I even quoted all kinds of reliable sources and referenced to all sorts of interesting and even amusing facts, but then I thought: no, I don't want another holy war. So the very best of luck to you with that project. Alexandre ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/14/10, Susan Spencer wrote: Website name TBD, svg logo TBD, and final selection of tools and website providers TBD. These decisions are meaningless without substance, and therefore can wait. This what we in software development call proof of concept. Is this a good suggestion for moving the forward, or should we wait until all our fears are quenched? It's a fairly good suggestion indeed. Starting a project from discussion is likely to lead to exactly what you described (GMPI, anyone?). Doing a proof of concept and then iteratively improving it as a result of consequent discussion is the way to create a viable project. People have been hearing about plans for L-G website since LGM2009. If there are people who really care about the idea, it's about time something real was done. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/14/10, Yuval Levy wrote: On August 13, 2010 01:19:16 pm Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: one of the really huge problems I've seen in the community is an urge to take over market while not providing viable solutions for that very market. +1. Let's be frank: it's called ego. And since art is the expression of the artist's ego, it is intrinsically built into a community of artists. I did not really refer to ego (which, though, in my case would be true :)) Let's say people have different visions of how things should work (and these visions could be close to reality or completely out of it) and they tend to protect their visions. As someone who dares calling himself a creative person I can say for sure that I've buried a bunch of interesting projects because I didn't dare to go from concept in my head to real implementation. If you (not you, Yuv:)) really intend to realize this project, the best way, as Susan suggested, would be to ditch the whole thread and start with a proof of concept. Otherwise you will *never* get anything done. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/13/10, Yuval Levy wrote: I don't agree with Jon's statements on the broader scope beyond graphics. IMO LG should yes be flexible about its boundaries and welcome related project (e.g. in the audio or video fields) when the opportunity arise, but it should first and foremost stay focused on its core (graphics) mission to avoid spreading the resources too thin or diluting the conference too much. IIRC Jon's point was about CREATE, not LG. And CREATE is not about just graphics. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/8/10, a.l.e wrote: on of my biggest concerns relating to a lg site is to get it localized in multiple languages (at least fr, de, it, es, nl, in, ar). the sites you linked in your mails are all in english: You certainly cannot expect all content, especially generated by users in e.g. forum, to be automagically available in an arbitrary language with all the right grammar and whatnot :) UI language -- now that's a different thing. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/8/10, Gregory Pittman wrote: I think maybe the Create site could work if it had a different/better portal, where what's there now could be accessed from it, but you could have other directions to go from that portal. In essence, I'm just talking about a new front page... It's a sensible idea. Mediawiki has a solid i18n implementation and you can easily handle translations (wikipedia relies on LANG. wikipedia.org though). You can also make it look like a nice website (e.g. f-spot.org), not just like wiki with a default theme. It could just work. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/8/10, Gregory Pittman wrote: I think maybe the Create site could work if it had a different/better portal, where what's there now could be accessed from it, but you could have other directions to go from that portal. There is another thing I'm quite concerned with: the blogs aggregator. Right now we have two planets running simultaneously and started by two people at more or less the same time (create's one and graphicsplanet.org), and I'm quilty of having supported both (it was partly because getting SSH access on new fd.o machine didn't work back in time). I don't really know how many people read each: neither have feedburner based RSS, so it's hard to tell. But I have a feeling that two planets is an overkill. From maintenance point of view graphicsplanet.org is a successor: it has two maintainers (muks and me) and relies on a newer engine. CREATE's planet is unmaintained AFAIK and uses old engine. OTOH from integration POV create's planet is better, if you intend to build new stuff on top of create. And thus I'm back to square one :-/ What do you think? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/8/10, Camille Bissuel wrote: That's not a bad idea, but Is Mediawiki have RSS support (diffusion + aggregation ) ? The only RSS for Mediawiki I ever used was for recent changes. Never wondered if it can generate other feeds. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website
On 8/8/10, jon wrote: Also, while Libre Graphics Meeting has been a success, I still feel that the concept of graphics is too narrow for a larger organization. We should look to support the spectrum of free and open source source creative applications, including sound programs, video programs (which are totally weak IMO right now), and many other not-purely graphics applications. You will have to convince LinuxAudio consortium that they need to merge with a not yet existing organization :) http://linuxaudio.org/about I do agree with your point though. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] OpenRaster examples, call to developers.
On 7/8/10, Jon Nordby wrote: Is there some particular type of OpenRaster files you are missing? Personally I miss files with nested layers, and files with metadata. *eyes Krita people* *eyes GIMP's OpenRaster exporting plug-in author* :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Short words
On 7/6/10, Igor Novikov wrote: From Moscow tickets on next month start from 1300 USD No, they don't. A flight from Moscow to Vietnam's capitol starts at 24K rubles, which is far below 1K USD. At this point I'm fine with going to *any* LGM venue you guys/girls pick as well as not going to LGM at all, because the whole next LGM discussion is making me sick. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
[CREATE] pledgie campaign, success
Hi, In the heat of next venue discussions it has passed somewhat unnoticed that the LGM pledgie has reached its goal: 10K USD. Oh wait, no -- it's 10.001 USD :) Let's give a huge warm virtual hug to our amazing community. Alexandre ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Decision for LGM 2011 venue — Action required
On 6/26/10, Louis Desjardins wrote: We have 3 bids (in alphabetical order): Brasil: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Brasil_Bid Canada: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Montr%C3%A9al_Bid Vietnam: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011_Vietnam_Bid To me the choice is clear between Brazil and Vietnam, because (sorry, Louis :)) Montreal conferences have always been more like meetings of developers and presence of actual users was scarce. After this year's success going back to just developers meetings (which also not everybody can attend, like last year) to me is losing momentum and thus is out of question. Both Brazil and Vietnam will lose us a number of developers who could attend a conference in Europe or Canada, for a number of reasons, which means that to make the conference successful we need to make it well attended by actual users of software in question. Again, if we want to keep the momentum, we will need: 1. Local team that is in touch with local communities of graphics designers, DTP specialists, 3D artists, architects and so on. 2. Actual local communities of [see above]. 3. Several local (language barrier, difference in cultures) activists who actually use the software in question professionally to do workshops. This is less important if we have people like rejon and andyfitz aboard who have spent a considerable amount of time in Asia. 4. Some of the past organizers around at least several days before start of the conference to help sorting out things (better -- a week before). After reading Vietnam bid I see a lot of clear honest information on just about everything. There is much less information on the Brazil bid. Both bids however miss detailed information on local communities (yes, we know some of the best FLOSS designers are in Brazil, but nevertheless). On the other hand after checking translations of related free applications I see that Brazil got there, while Vietnam is only getting there, and that, in my opinion, says a lot about local communities. And thus I don't see a clear winner as of now. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
Re: [CREATE] Free as in Speech, and Vietnam?
On 6/14/10, Agnez wrote: I talked to Vietnamese last week who do FOSS events, but they don't have a clue about human rights You know, this phrase has at least two meanings, one of them quite scary :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
