Come join us on Wednesday, April 2^nd from 8-10pm as we screen multiple short films including some that were made with Blender!

We will be screening these films at Passage Kinos in the WINTERGARTEN theater (approx. 650m from the University).

Passage Kinos Betriebs GmbH
Hainstraße 19a
04109 Leipzig

On Tuesday, April 1^st we have a photowalk around the city (estimated start time 10:00am in front of the Paulinum – finishing at 1:30pm) as well as a visit to the Museum of Printing Arts for a tour and possible workshop!

On Sunday, April 6^th there is a visit to the Panometer!

Head on over to the Pre/Post registration page to register for these events (it helps us to plan correctly):

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Susan Spencer Conklin first brought up the topic of free software for fashion design at Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels and a year later in Montreal she demonstrated her own software made as part of the Tau Meta Tau Physica project. She programmed the project in Python and implemented the results visually into Inkscape through extensions to be able to output the patterns.

However, there are often many paths to a solution, and it wasn’t long before another option became available.

Roman Telezhinsky started working on his own pattern design tool called Valentina as he was studying in a college. Valentina will be introduced at this years Libre Graphics Meeting to the audience and because its still in an early stage, there will be a special hackfest for working on it!

Magic Lantern version 2.3 Promo from MagicLanternFM on Vimeo.

Join us in Leipzig at the 2014 LibreGraphicsMeeting to give your Canon EOS camera a little more freedom.

At the 2012 Libre Graphics Meeting in Vienna, Richard Hughes presented a progress report on the ColorHug, his open hardware colorimeter. For over 2200 Linux users (and counting!), the Open Hardware ColorHug colorimeter has been an inexpensive way to calibrate monitors. Richard returns to LGM this year to talk about his newest project, a progression of the work on ColorHug, the ColorHug+.

The ColorHug+ is a mini-spectrograph with UV switched illuminants, allowing it to profile all manner of displays and printers. This allows for a complete look at colour management throughout the workflow. In this presentation Richard will be discussing the technology change for the ColorHug+, the higher price (£300 for the ColorHug+ vs. £60 for the ColorHug), and will walk through the requirements for building a device with sufficient accuracy and precision. Richard will also walk through a brief history of the project and display photos of early prototypes of the ColorHug+.

Join us in Leipzig at the 2014 Libre Graphics Meeting for a chance to meet Richard and see his presentation on the ColorHug+!

The original figure was created in 1525 of wood and string.
(Image courtesy of Sebastian König CC-BY)

As detailed in the original post on Blendernation, the original figure dates from 1525 and is an intricate creation of wood and strings that made the figure fully pose-able (even toes and fingers).  Due to its extreme age the figure is fragile, so it was scanned using computer tomography.  Starting from this scan, Sebastian then proceeded to use Blender to re-create the model digitally.

This not only allowed the model to be manipulated without fear of damaging the original, it was also able to allow the museum some insight into how it functions.  For more details of the process and results, have a look at the original post on Blendernation.

For an opportunity to hear Sebastian speak further about the process and results, come visit us in Leipzig for the 2014 Libre Graphics Meeting!

We have over 80 submissions to consider, and it’s going to be difficult to select the best ones!

This year we got many submissions around 3D graphics and Blender, but we also have darktable participating as a project. There are some new exciting things like the Magic Lantern free firmware project as well as the usual topics such as Color Management, Font Design, and Desktop Publishing.

We will inform all of the speakers of acceptance by January 25^th. The schedule will be published after all of the speakers have confirmed their session and timeslots. This should be by the end of January or early February.

We know you’re excited to see what will be happening at this years Libre Graphics Meeting, so over the course of the next few days we will be publishing some sneak peaks of the program. Stay Tuned!

This is where you can help!

If you plan on attending the Libre Graphics Meeting this year, please take a few moments to register with us and let us know. The Libre Graphics Meeting is open to all and free to attend. The registration can be found here:

Register for LGM 2014

You’ll also have the option of adding your name to the list of folks who will be attending!

As a reminder, we’re looking for:

• In-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies
• Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools
• New projects in this area to meet the wider community
• Reports, use-cases, best practices
• New emerging media; breaking free from analog constraints
• Well articulated ideas for future approaches, tools and standards

There are many different formats available:

• Lightning talk (10 minutes, selected at the event unconference style)
• Presentations (20 minutes extendable to 40 minutes)
• Entry for State of the Libre Graphics Union (1-2 slides)
• Workshops (2 hours or more)
• Birds Of a Feather (BOF), discussion meetings or Hackathons (2 hrs or more)

Of course, you can review the full Call for Presentation for more details and information.

We want to try something new this year: calling for a location to hold the 2015 meeting.

If you are interested in hosting our event and have a team who can work on it, please read the Call for Location and submit your ideas!