As if it wasn’t enough six years ago, two blasts in Moscow subway, 40 people reported to be dead + some wounded. Will this ever stop? Unlikely.
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
The following “graphics” organizations are participating at Google Summer of Code this year:
- Blender Foundation
- CGAL
- GIMP
- GNOME (read: F-Spot)
- Hugin/Panotools
- Inkscape
- KDE (read: Krita, Karbon, digiKam)
- OpenCV
- OpenICC
- X.org
- YafaRay
Please visit the list of accepted organizations to find out more.
Okay, now I can introduce new members of Graphics Planet 
Esteban Tovagliari already was introduced a couple of days ago. But if you’ve just joined, he is developer of Ramen, a free/libre compositing tool for Linux and Mac.
Alastair M. Robinson is best known for his work on PhotoPrint, but his recent projects, GPLin and CMYKTool, do deserve attention as well. GPLin aids finetuning your printer for printing photos (with Gutenprint) and CMYKTool allows both color managed and non color managed (sometimes useful) RGB <> CMYK conversion with printer simulation view.
Durian project probably doesn’t need special introduction. Simply put, this is the third open animation movie project by Blender Foundation.
Now, Morevna project does need special introduction: it is an open anime project led by Konstantin Dmitriev (most members of the team are Russians). The main production tool is Synfig, which inevitably is being improved from bug reports, feature requests etc. So one might say, for Synfig this is what Blender Foundation’s open movies are to Blender.
With Google Summer of Code 2010 coming there surely will be new members, stay tuned
I think this talented Inkscape artist nicknamed Omnitarian definitely deserves more credit than he gets
It looks like updating Graphics Planet takes too much time, so I’ll introduce one of the upcoming members now
As many of you know we are somewhat limited in solid open source VFX production tools on Linux. True, there are all sorts of modellers and Blender seems to become jack of all trades these days, but new specialized tools are always welcome. Which is why I’d like to make a bit of PR for a project called Ramen. Simply put, this is the only standalone open source node-based compositing solution for Linux and Mac. If you wanted a Shake-like or Nuke-like free tool for Linux or Mac, look no further.
