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Some insights on Google Summer of Code

Alexandre — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:06:21 GMT

Yesterday Google announced Summer of Code 2012 program that will run for the 8th time and attract hundreds of students from around the world to improve free and open source software. We've collected some insights for you.

Alexandre 5. Feb, 2012 1 Comment

google, gsoc, gsoc2012

Interview with Kaeltyk on Mandelbulber and 3D fractals

Alexandre — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:40:25 GMT

I've been meaning to talk to Eric Prevost aka Kaeltyk for a while, because I had been following (and admiring) his work even before he discovered Mandelbulber, a free 3D fractals explorer by Krzysztof Marczak.

Alexandre 9. Nov, 2011 2 Comments

mandelbulber, fractals

G’MIC gets a Fractalius-like filter, David Tschumperlé answers some questions

Alexandre — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:50:28 GMT

We haven't covered G'MIC in a while mainly because there were too many releases, and it was difficult to pick one to summarize changes. It's time to talk about G'MIC again.

Alexandre 10. Oct, 2011 7 Comments

gmic, gimp

OpenOctaveMidi 2011 unveiled, developers talk about the project

Alexandre — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:33:44 GMT

Few days ago developers of OpenOctaveMidi, a new/old digital audio workstation for Linux, presented the brand new v2011, the culmination of several years of work.

Alexandre 5. Oct, 2011 5 Comments

openoctavemidi, midi-sequencers, linuxsampler, daw

Peter Hutterer on the GNOME applet for Wacom tablets

Alexandre — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:58:39 GMT

With better color management support and a new Wacom configuration applet the newly released GNOME 3.2 looks like a solid improvement for us creative folks.

Alexandre 29. Sep, 2011 7 Comments

linuxwacom, wacom, gnome

Getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus for printing

Alexandre — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:45:12 GMT

The question of getting CMYK PDF output from Inkscape is a very often asked one. Let's talk about getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus.

Alexandre 23. Sep, 2011 1 Comment

scribus, inkscape, cmyk

Richard Hughes on color management in Linux and GNOME

Alexandre — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:03:46 GMT

An interview with Richard Hughes, principal developer of GNOME Color Manager and colord. Highlights: what's new with the project, changes in the Linux printing system, future plans.

Alexandre 21. Sep, 2011 4 Comments

gnome, icc, color-management

Customized MyPaint gains animation for a new open movie project

Alexandre — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:32:11 GMT

One of the reasons we like open movies is because they are real world tests for free software. Blender Institute's movies push Blender up the production curve, so does Morevna project re Synfig Studio. And just like big studios develop in-house solutions for their big animation projects, open movies lead to interesting developments as well. This time it's about MyPaint which is getting a traditional animation tool.

Alexandre 14. Sep, 2011 6 Comments

mypaint, open-movie, blender

The ultimate quest of bringing Visio support to LibreOffice

Alexandre — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:57:19 GMT

Today LGW's guests are Eilidh McAdam and Fridrich Strba who implemented support for VSD documents (Microsoft Visio) in LibreOffice within GSoC2011.

Alexandre 14. Sep, 2011 2 Comments

visio, libreoffice, vsd, reverse-engineering, re-lab

Interview with Thomas Krijnen on IfcOpenShell, Blender and architecture

Alexandre — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:52:05 GMT

Today we are talking to Thomas Krijnen, architect and programmer from the Netherlands, who works on IfcOpenShell project to assist opens source acceptance in BIM.

Alexandre 1. Sep, 2011 2 Comments

blender, ifc, architecture, bim