Libre Graphics Meeting
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The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual international convention for the discussion of free and open source software used with graphics; The first Libre Graphics Meeting was held in March 2006. Communities from Inkscape, GIMP, Krita, Scribus, sK1, Blender, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library, and more come together through the Create Project to assemble this annual conference. It was co-founded by Dave Neary and Dave Odin.
Overview
Held yearly since 2006 the Libre Graphics Meeting aims to attract developers, artists and professionals who use and improve free and open source software graphics applications. LGM aims to bring these people together in the cause of creating high quality free graphics applications; By collaborating it allows the development of cross-application assets like brushes and enhanced interoperability such as shared file formats.
Many of the separate groups take the opportunity to hold birds of a feather (BOF) sessions. For many individuals it is the only time they will get to see their team members in person.
Presentations
Many things are discussed at each Libre Graphics Meeting, including usability, standards, announcements, color management and furthering the use of free software graphics applications in professional environments.
Kinematic templates
At the University of Waterloo some original research was done in the field of creating drawing aids for graphics applications. The aim was to allow an artist to draw using templates that would improve the shape or correctness of a brush stroke while maintaining a natural look. This presentation was given by Michael Terry, the lead researcher on the project.
Professional adoption
Ginger Coons gave a presentation at LGM 2009 discussing what it will take to get free software graphics applications in the doors of professional environments and schools
Collaboration
As well as cross pollination of ideas the Libre Graphics Meeting allows the discussion of possible future collaboration.
Louis Suárez-Potts, OpenOffice.org's Community Development Manager and Community Lead was sent to the LGM 2007 to find ways that OpenOffice.org might be able to transcend the boundaries of a traditional office suite by collaborating with other open source projects. One of the ways that has been suggested was that open office could suggest another open source application when it could not perform the role a user required. For example when a user needed to edit an image in an office document, OpenOffice.org may suggest GIMP to fill the role required.
Locations of Libre Graphics Meetings
| Year | Dates Held | Location | External Links | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | March 17 to March 19 | Lyon, France | École d'Ingénieurs CPE | |
| 2007 | May 4 to May 6 | Montreal, Canada | and | École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| 2008 | May 8 to May 11 | Wrocław, Poland | and | Wrocław University of Technology |
| 2009 | May 6 to May 9 | Montreal, Canada | and | École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| 2010 | May 27 to May 30 | Brussels, Belgium | and | Pianofabriek, Bruxelles |
| 2011 | May 10 to May 13 | Montreal, Canada | and | École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| 2012 | May 2 to May 5 | Vienna, Austria | and | UAS Technikum Wien |
| 2013 | April 10 to 13 | Madrid, Spain | and [dead link] | MediaLab Prado |
| 2014 | April 2 to 5 | Leipzig, Germany | Leipzig University | |
| 2015 | April 30 to May 2 | Toronto, Canada | University of Toronto | |
| 2016 | April 15 to 18 | London, UK | University of Westminster | |
| 2017 | April 20 to 23 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | and | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro |
| 2018 | April 26 to 30 | Seville, Spain | University of Seville (Faculty of Communication) and Tramallol | |
| 2019 | May 29 to June 2 | Saarbrücken, Germany | and | K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik |
| 2020 | May 27 to 29 | Online | ||
| 2021 | May 27 to 30 | Rennes, France | and | |
| 2024 | May 9 to 12 | Rennes, France | Activdesign | |
| 2025 | May 28 to 31 | Nuremberg, Germany | Karl-Bröger-Zentrum and Südstadtforum | |
| 2026 | April 22 to 25 | Nuremberg, Germany | Zollhof |
Main achievements
- Addition of color management to GIMP and Inkscape. [citation needed]
- OpenRaster initiative to develop an exchange file format for raster graphics, supported by Krita, GEGL and MyPaint.
- Start of the UniConvertor project to provide Corel DRAW and WMF importers for Scribus, Inkscape and any other project willing to use them.
- KDE SC 4 graphics software using LibRaw instead of DCRaw to process Raw files, which is intended to achieve more consistent demosaicing, faster processing using OpenMP and better metadata extraction.
- LensFun library to automatically fix various lens distortions.
- Release of Open Clip Art Library 3.0.
- Release of Open Font Library publicly.
- Release of DeviantArt Developer API.
- Public showing of Milkymist.
See also
External links
- Linux Format articles related to Libre Graphics Meeting Nathan Willis, , Linux.com February 21, 2006 Nick Veitch, , Linux Format, March 21, 2006 Nick Veitch, , Linux Format n. 80, June 2006 Nick Veitch, , Linux Format no. 96, September 2007 Nick Veitch, , Linux Format no. 97 () Nick Veitch, , Linux Format no. 109, September 2008
- Ted Gould, , Linux.com, May 15, 2007
- Nathan Willis, , Linux.com, April 11, 2008