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Several Inkscapers will be giving presentations at this year's Libre Graphics Meeting, May 4-6 in Montreal. Users are highly encouraged to come! We'd love to meet you!
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JiHo reports that in Apple's list of top ten Open Source downloads, Inkscape came in as number 6. Congrats to Inkscape's OSX packagers!
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Alan Horkan points to an article listing the most essential open source downloads. What does it do? It's a vector graphics editor. [...] What is it undercutting? [Adobe Illustrator] and [CorelDraw]. Both have steeper learning curves and
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larger feature sets than Inkscape. Alan adds, "This is quite high praise, and the article mentions a little more about the strong focus given to usability, contrast it to the drubbing they give the gimp." [Less]
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The Inkscape community is meeting in Montreal this weekend for the Libre Graphics Meeting. In addition to seeing each other face to face with some of us for the first time, we're also meeting developers from other projects like Scribus, Gimp, Krita
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, and Blender. Sponsorship was provided to cover developers' travel costs by the LGM conference organizers. Six $250 subsidies for additional costs were provided by the Inkscape board from the funds from Google from last year's Summer of Code project, to Ted, Mental, Bulia, Jon Cruz, John Bintz; thanks go to Software Freedom Conservancy for taking care of the arrangements for this. The Inkscape presentations at LGM include: Ted Gould - the SVG file format Bryce Harrington - Inkscape's history, current state, and goals Inkscape Alexandre Robin - An Inkscape overview (french) Jakub Steiner - Creating photo-realistic artwork based on photo reference Benoit St-Andre - An OpenClipart overview MenTaLguY and John Bintz - Creating Comics in Inkscape Jon Phillips - The Open Content Library: Overview of Open Clip Art Library and ccHost Hopefully the face-to-face time will make it easy to collaborate on issues and hash through lots of ideas for fixes and enhancements! [Less]
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This article summarizes many of the activities at LGM this past week, including news that Coverity is now providing results from automated static testing of Inkscape and a couple hundred other open source graphics tools.
