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LGM 2010

May 27–30, 2010 Brussels	Subscribe to Podcast: Video \| Audio (iTunes) Video \| Audio (Miro)
The fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is being held at Brussels from May 27–30, 2010.

Table of Contents

UpStage - an open source web-based platform for cyberformance

Open Source project to enable fashion design using open data formats

The Rural Design Collective Summer Mentoring Program

Baroque Dreams: Live Multimedia Performance, Interpretive Culture, and Open Source Software

How to get contributors to your Free/Libre/Open Source project from Vietnam and Asia

Elements of Typographic Freedom: Open Sources of Extraordinary Design

Device Colour Management

Best practices for designing - releasing - maintaining - packaging open fonts

Content centric architecture and distributed versioning

Another year of Open Source Publishing

Diffusion Curves in Inkscape vector drawings

Styling TeX documents with Batch Commander

Font design and features for African languages

Google's Font Initiative

Designing a Better Tomorrow: How design is informed by metaphors, images and associations of social progress

Cantarell: Designing Typefaces Using Only Free Software

Designing with Free tools in an Open Community: experiences from the Fedora Design Team

How to Run an Art School on Free and Open Source Software

GNU LibreDWG - a free software library to handle DWG files from AutoCAD

Color Management and other new developments in Ghostscript

sK1 Project: Past, Present and Future

Laidout and Desktop Publishing

Blender Foundation, past and future

How I made a free New Zealand coffee-table book using lots of Free Software

Coding pictures with Shoebot

Multi-touch support in Ubuntu

Digital photography workflow on Linux with darktable

Plana, publishing illustration and comics with floss

Writing brush engines for fun and profit!

SVG - News and Plans

The New Folk Tradition: Aesthetic and Community Resonance between Open Source Graphics and Fiber Arts

The Open Colour Standard: Physical colour for F/LOSS

Inkscape for everybody

Graphic Design and the Wide Open Space

Joining Spirits with Aiki Framework: The New Web Engine for Open Clip Art Library

Open Source Graphics and Web Services: A panel discussion

Icon Workflows with Inkscape

Generative Node-based Design With NodeBox 2

What are you hoping to get out of this conference?

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Welcome to LGM 2010

2,440 views 0 Comments Tags: Femke Snelting, LGM 2010, Louis Desjardin.

Louis Desjardin, Femke Snelting

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Extending Python for Speed

6,830 views 1 Comment Tags: LGM 2010, Martin Renold.

Martin Renold
MyPaint
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A first outline for a UI for a fully GEGLed GIMP

10,419 views 1 Comment Tags: LGM 2010, Peter Sikking.

Peter Sikking
Gimp. http://mmiworks.net/blog
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Writing GIMP scripts and plugins

10,556 views 1 Comment Tags: Akkana Peck, LGM 2010.

Akkana Peck
http://shallowsky.com, http://gimpbook.com
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Collaborative intellectual property

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Jose David Cuartas Correa
http://sologicolibre.org/en
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PureDyne

2,818 views 0 Comments Tags: Aymeric Mansoux, LGM 2010.

Aymeric Mansoux
http://puredyne.goto10.org, https://launchpad.net/puredyn
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UpStage – an open source web-based platform for cyberformance

3,704 views 0 Comments Tags: Helen Varley Jamieson, LGM 2010.

Helen Varley Jamieson
http://www.upstage.org.nz, http://www.creative-catalyst.com
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Open Source project to enable fashion design using open data formats

12,102 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Susan L. Spencer.

Susan L. Spencer
http://www.sew-brilliant.org
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The Rural Design Collective Summer Mentoring Program

4,235 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud.

Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
http://ruraldesigncollective.org
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Baroque Dreams: Live Multimedia Performance, Interpretive Culture, and Open Source Software

2,322 views 0 Comments Tags: Barry Threw, LGM 2010.

Barry Threw
http://www.barrythrew.com
Play (27min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

How to get contributors to your Free/Libre/Open Source project from Vietnam and Asia

2,943 views 0 Comments Tags: Hong Phuc Dang, LGM 2010.

Hong Phuc Dang
http://foss.vn, http://2009.gnome.asia
Play (28min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

Elements of Typographic Freedom: Open Sources of Extraordinary Design

3,522 views 0 Comments Tags: Christopher Adams, LGM 2010.

Christopher Adams
http://techne.raysend.com
Play (22min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

Device Colour Management

1,740 views 0 Comments Tags: Kai-Uwe Behrmann, LGM 2010.

Kai-Uwe Behrmann
http://www.oyranos.org
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Best practices for designing – releasing – maintaining – packaging open fonts

2,578 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Nicolas Spalinger.

Nicolas Spalinger
Openfont
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Content centric architecture and distributed versioning

2,555 views 1 Comment Tags: Eric Schrijver, LGM 2010.

Eric Schrijver

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Another year of Open Source Publishing

1,875 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, OSP.

OSP
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org
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Diffusion Curves in Inkscape vector drawings

7,008 views 3 Comments Tags: Jasper van de Gronde, LGM 2010.

Jasper van de Gronde
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Diffusion_Curves
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Styling TeX documents with Batch Commander

3,292 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Ricardo Lafuente.

Ricardo Lafuente

Play (11min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

Font design and features for African languages

2,496 views 1 Comment Tags: Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, LGM 2010.

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
http://www.africanlocalisation.net/en/fonts
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Google’s Font Initiative

2,172 views 0 Comments Tags: Dave Crossland, LGM 2010.

Dave Crossland

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Designing a Better Tomorrow: How design is informed by metaphors, images and associations of social progress

2,408 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Mirko Tobias Schaefer.

Mirko Tobias Schaefer
http://www.mtschaefer.net
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Cantarell: Designing Typefaces Using Only Free Software

3,895 views 0 Comments Tags: Dave Crossland, LGM 2010.

Dave Crossland
http://abattis.org/cantarell
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Designing with Free tools in an Open Community: experiences from the Fedora Design Team

2,764 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Martin Sourada, Nicu Buculei.

Nicu Buculei, Martin Sourada
Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
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How to Run an Art School on Free and Open Source Software

5,223 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010.

Florian Cramer, Aymeric Mansoux, Michael Murtaugh
http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/
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GNU LibreDWG – a free software library to handle DWG files from AutoCAD

4,426 views 0 Comments Tags: Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches, LGM 2010.

Felipe Corrêa da Silva Sanches
http://gnu.org/software/libredwg
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Color Management and other new developments in Ghostscript

2,057 views 0 Comments Tags: Hin-Tak Leung, LGM 2010.

Hin-Tak Leung
http://www.artifex.com, http://www.ghostscript.com
Play (21min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

sK1 Project: Past, Present and Future

2,319 views 0 Comments Tags: Igor Novikov, LGM 2010.

Igor Novikov
http://sk1project.org
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Laidout and Desktop Publishing

4,514 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Tom Lechner.

Tom Lechner

Play (26min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

Blender Foundation, past and future

3,652 views 1 Comment Tags: LGM 2010, Ton Roosendaal.

Ton Roosendaal
http://www.blender.org
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How I made a free New Zealand coffee-table book using lots of Free Software

5,876 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Marcus Holland-Moritz.

Marcus Holland-Moritz
http://nzbook.mhxnet.de
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Coding pictures with Shoebot

2,997 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Ricardo Lafuente.

Ricardo Lafuente
http://tinkerhouse.net
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Multi-touch support in Ubuntu

1,764 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Steve Conklin.

Steve Conklin

Play (11min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

Digital photography workflow on Linux with darktable

5,096 views 0 Comments Tags: Alexandre Prokoudine, LGM 2010.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://prokoudine.info
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Plana, publishing illustration and comics with floss

4,093 views 0 Comments Tags: Ana Carvalho, LGM 2010.

Ana Carvalho

Play (8min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

Writing brush engines for fun and profit!

2,786 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Lukas Tvrdy.

Lukáš Tvrdý
http://lukast.mediablog.sk/log
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SVG – News and Plans

1,940 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010.

Doug Schepers, Chris Lilley

Play (30min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

The New Folk Tradition: Aesthetic and Community Resonance between Open Source Graphics and Fiber Arts

2,183 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Pete Ippel.

Pete Ippel
http://peteippel.com
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The Open Colour Standard: Physical colour for F/LOSS

3,261 views 1 Comment Tags: Ginger Coons, LGM 2010.

ginger coons
http://opencolour.org
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Inkscape for everybody

2,117 views 0 Comments Tags: Andy Fitzsimon, LGM 2010.

Andy Fitzsimon
http://andy.brisgeek.com
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Graphic Design and the Wide Open Space

3,247 views 0 Comments Tags: Eric Schrijver, LGM 2010.

Eric Schrijver
http://ericschrijver.nl
Play (33min)	Download: MP4\| MP3

Joining Spirits with Aiki Framework: The New Web Engine for Open Clip Art Library

2,661 views 0 Comments Tags: Jon Phillips, LGM 2010.

Jon Phillips
http://aikiframework.org, http://openclipart.org
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Open Source Graphics and Web Services: A panel discussion

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Nathan Willis

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Phatch

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Stani Michels
http://photobatch.stani.be
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Icon Workflows with Inkscape

2,953 views 0 Comments Tags: Jakub Steiner, LGM 2010.

Jakub Steiner
http://jimmac.musichall.cz
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Generative Node-based Design With NodeBox 2

7,341 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010.

Frederik De Bleser, Tom De Smedt, Lucas Nijs
http://beta.nodebox.net
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Scribus

2,134 views 0 Comments Tags: LGM 2010, Peter Linnell.

Peter Linnell
http://www.scribus.net
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What are you hoping to get out of this conference?

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Interviews by Jon Phillips

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