Re: [CREATE] Photo from libregraphics on BBC Chinese site?

2019-08-05 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
One day you pop over at a graphics nerds conference, five years later boom you're in BBC China with colored squares on your face :-) (Yes it's in Leipzig, and next to me and Ana Isabel Carvalho it's Stuart Axon and Tom Lechner) On 03/08/19 12:00, Hin-Tak Le

Re: [CREATE] an interesting development?

2014-06-03 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
The source doesn't appear to be available, and the restrictive uses (personal and noncommercial use only) make this very non-free software. On 06/03/2014 05:37 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27677712 > > I'm not sure if there is any interface with Blender and Rende

Re: [CREATE] Animated gif for LGM

2013-04-04 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
Libre Graphics mag logo in SVG is here: https://gitorious.org/libregraphicsmag/persistent/blobs/raw/master/logo-black.svg On 04/03/2013 06:13 PM, Carlos López González wrote: Okay, still missing: Logo for Luminance HDR, have one? SVG versions of: PHATCH CODE:FREE Magazine Libre Graphics Magazine

Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics @ FOSDEM2013?

2013-01-05 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
Ana and I will be running the Libre Graphics Magazine stand, hope to see familiar faces there :-) Let's sync for a drink! :r On 01/04/2013 11:47 PM, Jon Nordby wrote: Hi all, FOSDEM 2013 is coming up next month. Who is going this year? I will be around from Friday at 19.00 to Monday evening

Re: [CREATE] PDF and Pantone

2012-10-04 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
Hi Jakub, On 10/04/2012 08:13 AM, Jakub Jankiewicz wrote: I read about Pantone on Wikipedia and it's say that Free Software don't support it, is there a hack that will allow to prepare pdf with pantone inside? I'm not a developer but had some experience with doing professional print stuff wit

Re: [CREATE] Colorfont Workshop results

2012-06-29 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
On 06/29/2012 01:39 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: Since sometimes it seems you may have recognizable/semi-recognizable glyphs in the overlay, I wonder if it would be possible to have an alternative message in the overlays, different from the basic text. Another way of saying this might be whether th

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2012 workshop -- lib2geom

2012-02-18 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
+1 from me. One of the great promises of lib2geom was IMHO its (still incomplete) Python bindings, since there's yet no vector manipulation library for Python. Along with the workshop, it would be super to set up a sprint of sorts to advance the Python bindings; I did a little bit of work on

Re: [CREATE] Dinner @ FOSDEM 2012

2012-02-02 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
On 02/02/2012 11:06 AM, ale rimoldi wrote: hi a side question: are you planning to have on your lgmag stand some flyers inviting the people to give some money for the lgm 2012 pledgie? If there are any already available flyers, we can surely have them in the stand if someone can be there to d

Re: [CREATE] fosdem 2012

2012-01-16 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
Ana and I will be manning the Libre Graphics Magazine stand, see you all there! On 01/04/2012 03:45 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Hi, It looks like quite a few people here are attending FOSDEM. Would you folks be interested to tell us who you are and what/when you will be talking about? Just

Re: [CREATE] Stop Motion & T-Shirts

2011-09-06 Thread ricardo lafuente
Don't forget Toonloop! It was one of the highlights of LGM2011. http://toonloop.com/ :r On 09/05/2011 12:36 AM, manuel quiñones wrote: 2011/9/4 Braydon: What are some of the best software for doing stop motion animation with frame rate control? I've used FFMPEG via the command line to make s

[CREATE] LGM 2011 Reimbursements

2011-08-09 Thread ricardo lafuente
ht on this issue. Thanks, Ana Carvalho Ricardo Lafuente ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create

Re: [CREATE] can you give us access to the Flickr LGM group?

2011-05-16 Thread ricardo lafuente
wrote: I don't know who has access. Can someone help? On May 15, 2011 4:03 PM, "Ricardo Lafuente"< rica...@manufacturaindependente.org> wrote: So that this year's pics show up on the LGM website? We seem to have been the only ones posting this year.

Re: [CREATE] LGM: Native GTK OS X ?

2011-05-07 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 05/07/2011 05:48 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: On 7 May 2011 12:43, Jon Nordby wrote: here is little to no need for any porting. The issue is that the native version for OSX is not widely deployed. Sounds like a BOF to share the know how for how to integrate and bundle it will be a good idea,

Re: [CREATE] Montréal-Python graphics special on Monday 2011-05-09

2011-04-29 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 04/29/2011 06:52 PM, Yannick Gingras wrote: On April 29, 2011, ricardo lafuente wrote: I could also talk about Nodebox and Shoebot, which are some pretty great tools to generate and manipulate vector graphics with Python. I can introduce those tools, show some real-world examples, as well as

Re: [CREATE] Montréal-Python graphics special on Monday 2011-05-09

2011-04-29 Thread ricardo lafuente
I could also talk about Nodebox and Shoebot, which are some pretty great tools to generate and manipulate vector graphics with Python. I can introduce those tools, show some real-world examples, as well as a bootstrap for people to get started with them. See www.nodebox.net and www.shoebot.net

Re: [CREATE] Another Poster concept for LGM

2011-03-31 Thread ricardo lafuente
LGM 2011 to the people here as well. Regards, Hong Phuc On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:16 AM, ricardo lafuente wrote: Joining the fun, here's an LGM ad that we made a few days ago for inclusion in Libre Graphics Mag 1.2. http://libregraphicsmag.com/files/lgm_a

Re: [CREATE] Another Poster concept for LGM

2011-03-31 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 03/28/2011 05:43 AM, Hong Phuc Dang wrote: can we use this poster for our open design exhibition in Vietnam? We can promote LGM 2011 to the people here as well. Sorry for the late reply -- by all means use it! I placed a PDF version here: http://manufacturaindependente.com/dump/lgm_ad.pdf

Re: [CREATE] Another Poster concept for LGM

2011-03-25 Thread ricardo lafuente
Joining the fun, here's an LGM ad that we made a few days ago for inclusion in Libre Graphics Mag 1.2. http://libregraphicsmag.com/files/lgm_ad.png Here we tried giving new directions to the 2010 LGM identity without breaking out from it or introducing too much new stuff. On 03/25/2011 02:35

Re: [CREATE] Announcement: Libre Graphics magazine 1.2 is out now

2011-03-23 Thread ricardo lafuente
Good call -- I'll add the cover previews to the website today. One more thing, some little typos and inconsistencies were found and an updated version is on its way to the server. For the purpose of pointing these small things out, it's a better idea to let us know at enquir...@libregraphicsm

Re: [CREATE] LGM2011: Pledgie, call for papers, marketing push

2011-03-11 Thread ricardo lafuente
Apparently, the only current solution is to manually block the offending accounts. The URL for this would be http://identi.ca/group/lgm/members And individually click "block" on each spammer account. Of course, only group admins can do this. I can take care of weeding out the offending accou

Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1 is available to read, buy and modify

2010-11-24 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 11/18/2010 02:28 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: I was merely pointing this out to help avoid future embarrassment, plus the fact that it's at least conceivable to correct these things for the downloadable edition, let alone printed ones if they're not printed yet. It's just something that needs t

Re: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1 is available to read, buy and modify

2010-11-24 Thread ricardo lafuente
Hey Gregory, On 11/18/2010 03:49 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: Something to point out (that I'll admit I didn't notice on my own) is that there is generally a failure to use typographic quotes in the text of the magazine. It may be arguable, but some would say that there should be a small space bet

[CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine: issue 1.1 status

2010-11-09 Thread ricardo lafuente
Hi Create, There's some news about the release of the first issue of Libre Graphics magazine -- it was pushed to the end of the week while we iron out some kinks that we think would benefit from some extra attention. You can read more about this in our progress blog: http://libregraphicsmag.

Re: [CREATE] Collaboration on the Libre Graphics Magazine?

2010-09-24 Thread ricardo lafuente
Hi Jake, > How have you done collaboration on past projects? The short history of LGMag is that ginger, Ana and me got together during the days before LGM2010 to bring up an "Issue 0". We managed to pull that through, thanks to the help of many members of the community who contributed towards

Re: [CREATE] Fwd: Translation of LG magazine and other simple ways to get involved in design with free software

2010-09-11 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 09/10/2010 11:12 PM, Lila Pagola wrote: Somebody has the source text of the articles, or the source files of the layout? Very good reminder -- we didn't put those online at the time. I'll put them together once i get to my hard drive with that stuff. Next Monday that should be up.

Re: [CREATE] Translation of LG magazine and other simple ways to get involved in design with free software

2010-09-10 Thread ricardo lafuente
Hi Lila, On 09/10/2010 12:54 AM, Lila Pagola wrote: One I could imagine right now is invite them to get involved in the translation of some material, such us FLoss Manuals, but also the LG magazine. Language is a kind of effective barrier for participating for design students here... This is a

Re: [CREATE] Art & Montréal (was Re: LGM 20 11 - Montreal - May 10-11-12-13)

2010-09-09 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 09/07/2010 11:41 PM, Schrijver wrote: As a connection point, Libre graphics does not only have a relation to the traditional graphic processes but also I think to developments like generative design and software art. You can see this in projects like Shoebot and Nodebox but for example also

Re: [CREATE] LG magazine #1::∞

2010-09-03 Thread ricardo lafuente
complete product one last time to look for any surviving errors. With this done, the magazine is sent to the printers, wherever they may be and however the distributed printing process works. week12: The magazine is printed and ready for distribution. The core team has one week to relax

Re: [CREATE] consensus constitency persistence

2010-08-22 Thread ricardo lafuente
No, you're right. Yours are fair points and it's definitely preferable to have something be done than shooting down intentions prematurely. I'm okay with moving forward with this. On 08/22/2010 03:33 AM, Yuval Levy wrote: On August 21, 2010 12:49:11 pm ricardo lafuente wrote:

Re: [CREATE] consensus constitency persistence

2010-08-21 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 08/19/2010 11:41 PM, Yuval Levy wrote: Hi Ricardo, On August 19, 2010 11:13:53 am ricardo lafuente wrote: I'd risk an answer now, but i'd love to know your thoughts before. I hope by "you" you mean all people/projects represented on this ML. I am reading/listeni

Re: [CREATE] consensus constitency persistence

2010-08-19 Thread ricardo lafuente
Hi Yuval, Thanks for raising this issue. Now that some projects are gaining traction, it's the right time to discuss how the Libre Graphics community presents itself to the public. I do have some reserves as to the proposed way to tackle this challenge. If i understand correctly, your idea i

Re: [CREATE] LG magazine #1::∞

2010-08-18 Thread ricardo lafuente
Hai, No one here, i guess, did or would defend that anyone in the community would want to publish LibreGraphics-related materials shouldn't do so. Given that so few community-generated printed materials were made so far, having a serious effort to do something is naturally most welcome. I th

Re: [CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website

2010-08-16 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 08/16/2010 10:57 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: I had the magazine idea a year ago: as a concept, few layout ideas and content plan for a couple of issues. But never had a team to support it and didn't see a way to make it financially rewarding. Ginger and Ricardo picked the idea and Ana Ca

Re: [CREATE] [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website

2010-08-13 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 08/13/2010 01:56 PM, Schrijver wrote: But I repeat i.m.h.o. it is more important to start with the actual work of what should be *on* the website, +1! Btw, Jon's mention of "painting the bikeshed" is spot-on, imho. The following website http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/f

Re: [CREATE] Free as in Speech, and Vietnam?

2010-06-14 Thread ricardo lafuente
Wonderful way to wrap the issues up. +1 On 06/14/2010 07:09 PM, Susan Spencer wrote: My 2k on holding LGM in Vietnam: LGM embraces and promotes the open source model. But an open source model of government doesn't exist anywhere on earth. Compromise will happen no matter our destination. Let's

Re: [CREATE] spy report

2010-06-02 Thread ricardo lafuente
Aileen, many thanks for your great thoughts and alternative perspective -- definitely not what one's used to read on tech conference write-ups. The eternal tool-struggle and feminism angles were very refreshing (and sorely needed!). We need more spies! I for one would have loved to have seen a

Re: [CREATE] pictures of the lgm

2010-06-02 Thread ricardo lafuente
Thanks for this ale! Would also be great to aggregate the posts made about LGM2010 and have that on the meeting website. On 06/02/2010 05:00 PM, a.l.e wrote: dear creators, i have added a temporary "lgm 2010, the review" button to the lgm site. if you click on it and go to: http://libregrap

Re: [CREATE] who asked about university contacts in India after Hong Phuc Dang's talk?

2010-05-31 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 05/31/2010 07:42 PM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010, Jan Claeys wrote: Hello all, After Hong Phuc Dang's talk about getting contributors from Vietnam& Asia somebody asked about university contacts in India. I don't know who that was (couldn't see his face from where I sat and h

Re: [CREATE] LGM2010: Stuff that you liked and stuff not

2010-05-31 Thread ricardo lafuente
Adding to what has been said: Things i loved: - Little details that made this feel less like a tech conference: not being in a (technical) university, aprons instead of t-shirts, funky badges with wacky 'roles', carefully chosen menu that respected most culinary sensibilities (life's easier wh

Re: [CREATE] [LGF] A name !

2010-05-31 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 05/31/2010 03:07 PM, a.l.e wrote: > - it may not be easy to get create.org > > yes, create is a great name, but we need the domain name attached to it! Just a side note for the discussion: the domain issue need not be a dealbreaker when discussing the name of the project. Of course, having crea

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-19 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 2/16/10 15:07 , Stani wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:45 PM, a.l.e wrote: >> hi femke&& stani >> >>> Besides shoebot and phatch, which other projects >>> present at LGM2010 are relevant you think? >>> >> >> mypaint (developed in python: martin plans to attend) and scribus (uses >> python fo

Re: [CREATE] Venue LGM 2010!

2009-07-19 Thread ricardo lafuente
Yuval Levy wrote: > has it gone out yet or not? I don't want to waste time editing a wiki > page that is outdated, but will have time later tonight. Can do English, > French, Italian, German texts, although they will all need some revision > as my syntax and style are a bit lax. > I can take

Re: [CREATE] free software designers

2008-04-27 Thread Ricardo Lafuente
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 12:29 -0700, braydon fuller wrote: > hi All, > > I'd like to compile a list graphic designers using free software to > collaborate with. It would be great if there any designers in Los > Angeles, however this may not be compulsory. Please send me any info you > know. one mor