Martin Renold MyPaint Play (23min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Python is a nice high-level language, but most graphic applications have some code that must run fast at any price. Everyone knows that it is possible to write C/C++ extensions for Python. Not everyone knows that it can be done cleanly, simply and DRY.

Peter Sikking Gimp. http://mmiworks.net/blog Play (31min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

The (eternally) imminent integration of GEGL into GIMP—or rather, fully basing GIMP on GEGL—holds great promise. Lossless editing and unlimited re-adjustment and reordering of image editing steps are only the beginning. However there is big gap between the nuts and bolts of the GEGL graph and nodes, and the world of GIMP users doing high-end image manipulation for artistic results. User interfaces bridge this gap and Peter Sikking, principal Interaction Architect at m+mi works, and lead Interaction Architect of GIMP, will outline in this talk the UI principles that can unlock the power of GEGL in a GIMP context.

Akkana Peck http://shallowsky.com, http://gimpbook.com Play (26min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Much of the power of GIMP comes from its plug-in architecture. Most of the functions you use in GIMP, including everything in the Filters menu, are implemented as plug-ins. Happily, writing GIMP plug-ins is easy. This talk will show you how to write new plug-ins or extend existing ones in two languages: Script-fu and Python

Jose David Cuartas Correa http://sologicolibre.org/en Play (11min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

This session shows how when we put together Free software, free content and open hardware, we get something that we can call: “Collaborative intellectual property.” (Video Talk)

Aymeric Mansoux http://puredyne.goto10.org, https://launchpad.net/puredyn Play (15min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Puredyne is the USB-bootable GNU/Linux operating system for creative media. It is a live distribution, you don’t need to install anything – simply boot your computer using a USB key or CD/DVD and you’re ready to start using software such as Pure Data, Supercollider, Icecast, Csound, Fluxus, Processing, Arduino, Gimp, Inkscape and much more.

Helen Varley Jamieson http://www.upstage.org.nz, http://www.creative-catalyst.com Play (11min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Artists use UpStage to collaborate in real-time on live performances for an online audience, using the web interface to manipulate graphics, animations, text, text2speech, audio, web cams and drawing, creating live performances that are accessible to anyone with a standard browser and internet connection. The application, which is open source and written in Python, sits on a server so there is no need for artists or audience to download or install anything.

Susan L. Spencer http://www.sew-brilliant.org Play (12min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

This presentation invites developers to help create a suite of open source software to create and modify clothing patterns in open data formats to match an individual’s body measurement and generate customized patterns as printable files. Current applications are proprietary, do not interoperate, and are expensive. An open source solution would enable individual and small label designers to create and provide custom sized patterns without purchasing high-cost proprietary software.

Rebecca Hargrave Malamud http://ruraldesigncollective.org Play (8min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

The Rural Design Collective in Port Orford, Oregon, is a not-for-profit professional mentoring program with a local focus designed to help motivated, creative people begin an independent career on the Internet. They learn to work remotely using collaborative tools and social-networking sites, and are required to meet production deadlines and interact with their clients one-on-one either using online communication tools or by conducting on-site meetings. The program is focused on teaching and using open source technologies (Video Talk).

Barry Threw http://www.barrythrew.com Play (27min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

This talk will cover the issues of bringing live interpretive performance back into electronic music and multimedia performance culture. Issues of technology obsolesce, interface, types of users, hardware, and historical cultures patterns will be discussed. Ways the open source community can help build tools that will be useful to the video or music artists interested in interpretive performance of works will be suggested.

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

There are so many great F/LOSS projects out there, that get me excited. And we have millions of people studying IT, design, communication, translation and many other subjects in the world. Everyone could contribute to F/LOSS. So, when I sometimes read about projects I cannot believe that many are lacking contributors. As a user and small and humble contributor I am happy about the many improvements in the F/LOSS world, but I am selfish and I would like to see moving things forward even more. So, I figured out that I want to support projects, that are looking to get more contributors.

Christopher Adams http://techne.raysend.com Play (22min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Type is a tool. This talk aims to give an inspiring overview of excellence in the typographic arts, with a special emphasis on fonts and world-class book design using free software.

Kai-Uwe Behrmann http://www.oyranos.org Play (30min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Devices seldom agree about colours by default. RGB (Red/Green/Blue) colour spaces in digital or analog cameras are different from laptop and desktop monitors and those are different from inkjet printers, even if they do not only support a CMYK (Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Key-Black) colour space. The talk gives an overview of how these diverging colours can be brought together by the configurable Oyranos Colour Management System on a system level. It will further discuss what is required by applications to make use of the provided ICC profile information.

Nicolas Spalinger Openfont Play (22min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Best practices for designing, releasing, maintaining and packaging open fonts. A review of dos and don’ts based on real world examples and community experiences. Various tips and tools for authors, designers and contributors to open font projects to Do The Right Thing in the complicated area of open fonts.

• http://planet.open-fonts.org
• http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
• http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org
• https://launchpad.net/~fonts

OSP http://ospublish.constantvzw.org Play (5min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a multidisciplinary, multi-national design collective based in Brussels. Since 2006 they have been experimenting with Free Software for design. In this talk, OSP tours you at the speed of light through work done since LGM 2009.

Jasper van de Gronde http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Diffusion_Curves Play (23min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Diffusion Curves are an exciting and flexible new primitive for creating images with smooth color transitions. However, the best method to display diffusion curves so far is to rasterize them, which is unsuitable for use with SVG for example. I will present the basic idea behind Diffusion Curves, an alternative interpretation and an approach to creating a purely vector based representation (discussion welcome).

Ricardo Lafuente Play (11min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Batch Commander is a tool that provides a graphical interface for styling (La)TeX documents. While the plaintext-based nature of TeX is ideal for automated typesetting, Batch Commander provides a GUI for editing document styles visually, instead of manually editing style files and recompiling. A quick previewing system and support for extensions make Batch Commander worth a look for anyone using TeX, LaTeX or ConTeXt for their own work.

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye http://www.africanlocalisation.net/en/fonts Play (13min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

This presentation will discuss the requirements of orthographies for African languages in Latin scripts and shows how to implement them with modern fonts technologies. Good practices, mistakes and evaluation of fonts for African languages with high requirements will be discussed. The presentation will also showcase various font projects that are benefitting from the input, feedback and work of the Open Source community.

Dave Crossland Play (12min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Raph Levien is a longtime contributor to the libre graphics community (libart, Ghostscript, Advogato) and launched Spiro at LGM 2007 in Montreal. Now working for Google, he is leading an initiative to sponsor libre font projects and services. This talk by Dave Crossland, a sponsored type designer, will outline the sponsorship opportunity for type designers wishing to design fonts that can be shared and collaboratively improved. It will also offer one of the first public demonstrations of a related Google font project.

Mirko Tobias Schaefer http://www.mtschaefer.net Play (18min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Making the world a better place has been a powerful engine of ingenuity and has driven technological development from Claude Chappe’s signalling system to Samuel Morse’s telegraph, from Paul Otlet’s information indexes to Ted Nelson’s hyperspace. Information technology in general and the World Wide Web and its label Web 2.0 in particular tell a legend of empowering users and enabling participation.

Dave Crossland http://abattis.org/cantarell Play (22min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

This talk presents the techniques and software I used and developed for creating the Cantarell font family, and looks at the future of free software type design. During the last 2 years I undertook the prestigious MA Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading, UK. The course involves two major projects, a theoretical dissertation and a practical type design. I wrote about the nexus of free software and typeface design, and used only free software to design Cantarell.

Nicu Buculei, Martin Sourada Fedora, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork Play (20min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

The Fedora Design Team is an Open Community consisting from people from all around the world collaborating on various projects, from desktop wallpapers to posters, icons, website and application mockups, CD/DVD art and more. Everything created by the team is licensed freely, according with Fedora’s foundations: Freedom, Friends, Features, First.

Florian Cramer, Aymeric Mansoux, Michael Murtaugh http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/ Play (43min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Open Source plays an increasingly important role in arts and design through Web applications and open licenses. The Networked Media design programme of the Piet Zwart Institute has, for years, employed Open Source more radically for all course work, on servers and clients, with a focus on the command line, coding and FLOSS philosophy to foster rethinking of media instead of off-the-shelf design.

Felipe Corrêa da Silva Sanches http://gnu.org/software/libredwg Play (22min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

LibreDWG is a library to handle files in the DWG format used by AutoCAD. I will present a general overview of the history of the project, explaining how a group of students at the University of São Paulo developed a new and relevant free software library (listed in the FSF High Priority Projects List) and how it became approved as an official GNU package.

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

The Ghostscript team has a few on-going or soon-to-complete development efforts which would be of great interest to the free graphics community. We have done some major work with ICC-profiles which is about to be merged into trunk for release in August (hopefully.) We have also integrated freetype as a font-renderer, and made under-the-hood improvements in the form of clist and going towards multi-threaded rendering. In the embedded/small-memory-footprint application area, we have been working on mupdf. These are just a few highlights.

Igor Novikov http://sk1project.org Play (18min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

The project was started in 2003 as a Sketch fork. Since that time sK1 became an awardwinning Open Source application and supports a lot of unique and professional publishing features. This year is a serious milestone in project development – global refactoring, multiplatform versions etc.

Tom Lechner Play (26min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Laidout is a desktop publishing program that I use primarily to make cartoon books. It can lay out images and gradients (including mesh gradients) onto booklets, as well as onto arbitrary polyhedral surfaces. Other novel features include controlled multiple image import, and image mesh warping. Being debugged currently are multicontact abilities. Discussion will also include experiences with various open source software for related tasks.

Ton Roosendaal http://www.blender.org Play (20min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Ton Roosendaal presents work on Blender the past year, current status and plans for the future.

Marcus Holland-Moritz http://nzbook.mhxnet.de Play (11min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

In 2009 I made a trip to New Zealand where I took about 15,000 photos. After I spent weeks selecting and processing the good shots and getting very positive feedback from my friends, I decided to try to make a book about my trip. I had already been using Scribus in the past, but not for anything beyond very simple one-page layouts. Trying to figure out how to do a whole book took me a while, not only working with (and on) the tools, but also reading a lot about design, typography and more esoteric stuff like colour management.

Ricardo Lafuente http://tinkerhouse.net Play (11min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Shoebot is a graphics robot with which you can create complex images and animations using a very simple syntax on top of the Python programming language. It is specifically aimed at designers and artists who want to incorporate code into their creations, but it also provides for a good educational framework for introducing code-based approaches, with a simple interface and quick image-based results.

Steve Conklin Play (11min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

A quick presentation about the current state of multi-touch support in Ubuntu, and the road map for the next release.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://prokoudine.info Play (14min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

State of the art digital photography workflow on Linux and how darktable finally makes it possible.

Ana Carvalho Play (8min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Plana started as an academic project by Luís Camanho for a small independent publisher on illustration and comics. Free software was embraced almost from the very beginning. It was an answer to economic constraints but also reflection of our empathy with the libre graphics world. As a consequence, we got interested in copyright and embraced the sharing culture, informing and encouraging our authors to distribute their work for free. With five books published since 2008 we would like to share our experiences so far.

Lukáš Tvrdý http://lukast.mediablog.sk/log Play (21min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Among free software graphics application, Krita is unique in that its painting system is plugin-based: all Krita brush engines are plugins. Starting with the sumi-e hairy brush engine I worked on during the 2008 Google Summer of Code, I continued writing over half a dozen experimental, funny and useful brush engine for my Master’s Thesis at the VŠBTechnical University of Ostrava. This presentation will start with a live demonstration of these brush engines. The second part will be more technical: I will give an introduction into the art of writing brush engine plugins for Krita. It’s easy and fun, not difficult at all!

Pete Ippel http://peteippel.com Play (19min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

I discuss revivalist trends in art with relationship to the hand-made and folk tradition, specifically in fiber arts. Innovative artists, having digital fluency, easily navigate networked communities and collaborate openly. By comparing pixels to patchwork, vectors to stitches, bitmaps to patterns, and layers to quilts, they investigate the overlap among a variety of disciplines.

ginger coons http://opencolour.org Play (25min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Jumping off of previous discussions about the barriers preventing professional designers from using F/LOSS graphics programs, this talk will present the Open Colour Standard. OCS is a project intended to add precise colour to the F/LOSS graphics workflow. It aims to make professional colour management a reality for F/LOSS graphics.

Andy Fitzsimon http://andy.brisgeek.com Play (27min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Inkscape’s popularity is growing day by day. How do we help new users master the tool? How do we welcome these users and invite them to participate in the community and contribute their art, their bug reports and their ideas to help us innovate? This talk briefly summarises the available resources out there from online tutorials, screen-casts, channels & forums to the offline books, magazines, courses, classes and user groups. Half talk, half debate, this session aims to set the scene for a discussion on the issues of supporting new users, and explore ways to do it better by sharing ideas and working together.

Eric Schrijver http://ericschrijver.nl Play (33min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Graphic design as a discipline seems to be firmly focussed on print media, leaving designing for the screen to interaction and web designers. This is a shame. As we spend more time online, public space itself is becoming digital, and in this space the pluriformity of contemporary graphic design is sorely missed. In interface and web design, aesthetic decisions by a few major software developers have a disproportionate effect on the visual landscape.

Jon Phillips http://aikiframework.org, http://openclipart.org Play (30min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

In the past, applying a free software development style to web applications blocked development on the Open Clip Art Library. The project has nearly joined the #FAIL list multiple times. Since web sites are centralized pieces of software running continuously, there is a need for secure access to the live code. This forces a division of managing a running website, merging software changes from developers, and keeping development on the software progressing healthily. To complicate matters, a site like Open Clip Art Library has an active base of librarians and artists uploading and editing new clipart. The new Aiki Framework aims to solve all these issues.

Nathan Willis Play (60min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

This session will be a moderated panel discussion of some specific questions that relate to how the FOSS graphics suite can or should react to the RIA movement, which is largely non-free. In addition to Picnik and the other well-known services, Google Docs has now added a Drawing app, so RIA isn’t going away.

Stani Michels http://photobatch.stani.be Play (11min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Phatch is a user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and EXIF Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. It can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners and many more actions – in minutes instead of the hours or days needed to do so manually.

Jakub Steiner http://jimmac.musichall.cz Play (25min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Learn how to worry less about the file system and more about your artwork in this overview of Inkscape workflows. Various details of the workflow and tools are discussed with specific examples from projects including, but not limited to, Firefox, GNOME and Moblin.

Frederik De Bleser, Tom De Smedt, Lucas Nijs http://beta.nodebox.net Play (30min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

NodeBox 2 is an open-source application that generates visual output based on programming code, a node-based interface or natural language (i.e. English.) In the user interface you connect nodes (building blocks) together to create interesting visuals. Nodes can be opened to examine or edit the (Python) source code. AI techniques allow the system to evaluate written text and transform it into nodes using analogy and conceptual association.

Peter Linnell http://www.scribus.net Play (17min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.