While freedom in digital graphic design is a primary topic at Libre Graphics Meeting, applications outside the digital world are also fascinating to see! So there will be an opportunity to hear about (and hack with) the fashion pattern design tool Valentina this year. Susan Spencer Conklin first brought up the topic of free software…

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…

Libre Graphics Meeting tries to bring in talks or presentations from the local community each year, and there is a fantastic presentation this year of the work done by Sebastian König recreating a 500 year old manikin with Blender for the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig. As detailed in the original post on Blendernation, the…