Libre Graphics Meeting

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.[1] 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.

Copying is an act of love, presentation at LGM 2013

Overview

Held yearly since 2006 the Libre Graphics Meeting aims to attract developers, artists and professionals[2] 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;[3] By collaborating it allows the development of cross-application assets like brushes and enhanced interoperability such as shared file formats.[4]

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.[5]
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[6]

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.[7]

Locations of Libre Graphics Meetings
Montreal (3x)
Toronto
Rio de Janeiro
Libre Graphics Meetings - Worldmap
Wrocław
Brussels
Vienna
Madrid
Leipzig
Lyon
London
Seville
Saarbrücken
Rennes
Libre Graphics Meetings - Europe
Year Dates Held Location External Links Host
2006 March 17 to March 19 Lyon, France Website École d'Ingénieurs CPE
2007 May 4 to May 6 Montreal, Canada Website and Video Recordings École Polytechnique de Montréal
2008 May 8 to May 11 Wrocław, Poland Website and Video Recordings Wrocław University of Technology
2009 May 6 to May 9 Montreal, Canada Website and Video Recordings École Polytechnique de Montréal
2010 May 27 to May 30 Brussels, Belgium Website and Video Recordings Pianofabriek, Bruxelles
2011 May 10 to May 13 Montreal, Canada Website and Video Recordings École Polytechnique de Montréal
2012 May 2 to May 5 Vienna, Austria Website and Video Recordings UAS Technikum Wien
2013 April 10 to 13 Madrid, Spain Website and Video Recordings MediaLab Prado
2014 April 2 to 5 Leipzig, Germany Website Leipzig University
2015 April 30 to May 2 Toronto, Canada Website University of Toronto
2016 April 15 to 18 London, UK Website University of Westminster
2017 April 20 to 23 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Website and Video Recordings Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
2018 April 26 to 30 Seville, Spain Website University of Seville (Faculty of Communication) and Tramallol
2019 May 29 to June 2 Saarbrücken, Germany Website and Video Recordings K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik
2020 May 26 to 29 Rennes, France Website

Main achievements
  • Addition of color management to GIMP and Inkscape.
  • OpenRaster initiative to develop an exchange file format for raster graphics, supported by Krita, GEGL and MyPaint.
  • Start of the UniConvertor[8] project to provide Corel DRAW and WMF importers for Scribus, Inkscape and any other project willing to use them.[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • LensFun library to automatically fix various lens distortions.[11][12]
  • Release of Open Clip Art Library 3.0.[13]
  • Release of Open Font Library publicly.[14]
  • Release of DeviantArt Developer API.
  • Public Showing of Milkymist.[15]

See also

References
  1. Linux.com Historic Libre Graphics Meeting set for next month Archived 2008-01-21 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 10 May 2009
  2. Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
  3. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/2011/05/11/libre-graphics-meeting-2011-brings-open-source-graphics-culture-and-developers-to-montreal/
  4. (PDF) Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 Press Release
  5. Kinematic Templates - Presentation by Michael Terry Archived 2009-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Libre Graphics Meeting 2009: Visions of the Future". LinuxFoundation.com. 2009-05-28. Archived from the original on 2010-06-15.
  7. Linux Format - Interview with Louis Suárez Potts
  8. UniConvertor Archived 2010-11-29 at the Wayback Machine
  9. A mail from UniConvertor's developer in VectorSection's Google Group
  10. digiKam at LGM 2008: a great event! Archived 2009-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Create Project Mailing List: Lens correction database
  12. "prokoudine blog - "LGM'07-08, LensFun"". Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-15. Retrieved 2011-05-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2011-05-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. "Milkymist One Shown at Libre Graphics Meeting". Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
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