The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual international convention for the discussion of

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used with graphics; The first Libre Graphics Meeting was held in March 2006. Communities from

Inkscape Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. Other formats can be imported and exported. Inkscape can render primitive vector shapes (e.g. rec ...

GIMP GIMP ( ; GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized ...

Krita Krita ( ) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation. The software runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and ChromeOS, and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management su ...

Scribus Scribus () is free and open-source desktop publishing (DTP) software available for most desktop operating systems. It is designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. Scribus can a ...

, sK1,

Blender A blender (sometimes called a mixer or liquidiser in British English) is a kitchen and laboratory appliance used to mix, crush, purée or emulsify food and other substances. A stationary blender consists of a blender container with a rotating me ...

Open Clip Art Library Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art. The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original ...

Open Font Library The Font Library is a project devoted to hosting and encouraging the creation of fonts released under Free Licenses. It is a sister project to Openclipart and hosts over 6000 fonts from over 250 contributors. These are intended to be downloade ...

, and more come together through the

Create Project The Create Project is a web-based community focused on communication and sharing between Free and Open Source Creative applications. Initially the project was created by freedesktop.org as a space for collaboration between free software creative ...

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

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

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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,

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'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

to fill the role required.

Locations of Libre Graphics Meetings

Main achievements

* Addition of

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and

. * OpenRaster initiative to develop an exchange file format for

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, supported by

GEGL The Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) is a programming library under development for image processing applications. It is mainly developed for GIMP in order to add support for higher bit depth images, and non-destructive editing. It was partiall ...

and MyPaint. * Start of the UniConvertor project to provide Corel DRAW and WMF importers for

and any other project willing to use them. * KDE SC 4 graphics software using

LibRaw LibRaw is a free and open-source software library for reading raw files from digital cameras. It supports virtually all raw formats. It is based on the source code of dcraw, with modifications, and "is intended for embedding in raw converters, ...

instead of DCRaw to process Raw files, which is intended to achieve more consistent demosaicing, faster processing using

OpenMP OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) is an application programming interface (API) that supports multi-platform shared-memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran, on many platforms, instruction-set architectures and operating syst ...

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

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Developer API. * Public showing of

Milkymist M-Labs (formerly known as the Milkymist project) is a company and community who develop, manufacture and sell advanced open hardware devices and software. It is known for the Milkymist system-on-chip (SoC) which is a commercialized system-on-chip ...

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://libregraphicsmeeting.org
Libre Graphics Meeting - Report 2007
* Linux Format articles related to Libre Graphics Meeting ** Nathan Willis
Historic Libre Graphics Meeting set for next month
Linux.com February 21, 2006 ** Nick Veitch
Libre Graphics Meeting 2006
Linux Format, March 21, 2006 ** Nick Veitch
"Libre graphics"
Linux Format n. 80, June 2006 ** Nick Veitch
Interview: Oyvind Kolas
Linux Format no. 96, September 2007 ** Nick Veitch
Interview: Louis Suárez-Potts
Linux Format no. 97
Linux Format, October 2007 ([also available online
** Nick Veitch
Libre Graphics 2008
Linux Format no. 109, September 2008 * Ted Gould
Art meets open source at Libre Graphics Meeting
Linux.com, May 15, 2007
Linux.com article on 2008 LGM Fundraising Drive
* Nathan Willis

Linux.com, April 11, 2008 Computer graphics conferences Free-software conferences Freedesktop.org, * Libre culture Recurring events established in 2006