Category Archives: opencontent

Libre Graphics Meeting 2011

The call just opened for for all artists and developers in the open source graphics to submit presentation ideas for this year’s Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM)  in Montreal from May 10th  to 13th. To submit a talk proposal, add you idea to the page on the create wiki, or if presenting isn’t your thing, help the conference to remain free for participants by donating to the conference. Interested about what goes on at an LGM? check out all the videos from LGM 2010.

About LGM:

The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library who are gathered to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common interchange formats.

how to crop an image with inkscape

The inkscape tutorials weblog has a great little tutorial on cropping / clipping images with inkscape. It uses a great little clipart from the open clipart library too!

http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/inkscape-faq-how-do-i-crop-in-inkscape/

Issue 1 of ‘Code:Free’ – an Art Magazine for FOSS artists

chrisdesign has launched a new PDF magazine entitled ‘Code:Free’ and it is loaded to the brim with awesome examples of artwork created using Free Software. As can be expected, the majority of the art was created with Inkscape and the GIMP, but there are also some nice Open Clip Art remixes thrown in to mix it up a bit. Chrisdesign also writes some tutorials (some of which i have featured on the inkscape tutorials weblog) so be sure to browse his blog.

Be sure to check it out and support the growing number of artists using FOSS to create stunning works!

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Inkscape About Screen Contest Announced.

Today, Inkscape announced the About Screen contest for the upcoming 0.46 release. The About Screen changes with every major release, and always demonstrates some of the new features that are present in that release.

For more information about the 0.46 About screen contest, guidelines and how to enter, view the contest page at deviantArt. Ted from Inkscape hosts the Museum of Sodipodi and Inkscape About Screens if you are looking for some inspiration for your splashscreen ideas.

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inkscapeforum.com launched!

There is now a English Inkscape Forum!

MicroUgly (  [blog/website] [deviantart page]  ) launched it sometime this week, and it promises to be another great source of Inkscapy goodness. So get on board (scuse the pun) and sign up!

On a side note, on browsing microugly’s personal site,
its good to see he is a ”traditionalist” Queenslander and has XXXX bitter and gold topping his list of favourite beers.
Go the maroons on Wednesday night…
:P

open content library has a new look

the open content library now has a new look skin for it’s mainpage (which is a mediawiki :P )

so check it out!

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