Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics
Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montréal.
Announced
12 February, 2007 - Building on the overwhelming success of
last year's
Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and
Open Source
Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce
the second
Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in Montréal,
Québec, Canada,
May 6, 2007 at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics
application
developers, users and professional artists from all over the
world meet
to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects
together,
with the goal of increasing interaction between developers,
professional
graphics artists and print professionals to improve the
steadily expanding
FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem.
This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as
Blender -
a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade
page layout
application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor,
Inkscape - a
user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for
SVG, Krita -
a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application,
Open Clip Art Library
- a large public domain collection of freely available
artwork, and many
other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing.
According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of
pre-press and
print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM
is a sure
demonstration of the maturity of free and open source
applications -
even at a professional level. Not only that, never before
have I seen
such a close and amicable working relationship between the
users of this
kind of software and those who create it."
Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready
galleys and
manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he
states: "We
are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was
more or less
closed before."
Numerous companies and organisations are showing their
support of LGM by
means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a
clear positive
impact on the evolution of the projects present at the
conference. LGM
audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum.
Sponsors have the
opportunity to show their support to the community and get
appropriate
web and media exposure. This year they also have the
opportunity to
advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done
using FLOSS.
The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre
Open Source
graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general
issues such
as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming
sessions
and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and
to work on
common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world.
LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation,
sponsorship, and
discussion. The call for participation includes the
submission of at
most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested
projects and
individuals. All types of presentations will be considered,
including
topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art
techniques, engineering
talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant
topics.
Official website
http://www.libre
graphicsmeeting.org/
Source
LGM 2007 organisation
Press Contact
Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins gmail.com
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