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SIGGRAPH BOF - failed

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SIGGRAPH BOF - failed Juhana Sadeharju 07 Aug 18:41
  SIGGRAPH BOF - failed Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Aug 18:49
SIGGRAPH BOF - failed Juhana Sadeharju 07 Aug 18:47
  SIGGRAPH BOF - failed Michael Schumacher 07 Aug 22:38
   SIGGRAPH BOF - failed GSR - FR 07 Aug 23:57
Juhana Sadeharju
2006-08-07 18:41:11 UTC (over 17 years ago)

SIGGRAPH BOF - failed

From: G Blair

The Open Source booth was busy demonstrating packages such as gimp, blender, inkscape, and others. The degree of confidence varied. Sample questions such as, "How do I remove red-eye?" stymied several volunteer gimp operators.

Yep, open source people could learn to answer to that kind of questions. The similar happens in pro-audio side as well.

One possible answer is to ask what plugin they have used in PhotoShop. They could ask the plugin author to release the GIMP version. Specially if the algorithm has been patented.

Second possible answer is to say GIMP cannot do it, perhaps it can be done with plugins, the GIMP sites provide lists of available plugins.

Without correct answers the "how do I" questions could go on and on. Photoshop authors could list all features of their $$$$$ plugin set and seriously expect that every feature has an open source equivalent of the same quality.

Juhana

Juhana Sadeharju
2006-08-07 18:47:11 UTC (over 17 years ago)

SIGGRAPH BOF - failed

From: G Blair

The Open Source booth was busy demonstrating packages such as gimp, blender, inkscape, and others. The degree of confidence varied. Sample questions such as, "How do I remove red-eye?" stymied several volunteer gimp operators.

Yep, open source people could learn to answer to that kind of questions. The similar happens in pro-audio side as well.

One possible answer is to ask what plugin they have used in PhotoShop. They could ask the plugin author to release the GIMP version. Specially if the algorithm has been patented.

Second possible answer is to say GIMP cannot do it, perhaps it can be done with plugins, the GIMP sites provide lists of available plugins.

Without correct answers the "how do I" questions could go on and on. Photoshop authors could list all features of their $$$$$ plugin set and seriously expect that every feature has an open source equivalent of the same quality.

Juhana

Alexandre Prokoudine
2006-08-07 18:49:11 UTC (over 17 years ago)

SIGGRAPH BOF - failed

On 8/7/06, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

One possible answer is to ask what plugin they have used in PhotoShop. They could ask the plugin author to release the GIMP version. Specially if the algorithm has been patented.

GIMP 2.3.x already has a red-eye removal plug-in for several months. How come people in the booth don't know that? :)

Alexandre

Michael Schumacher
2006-08-07 22:38:07 UTC (over 17 years ago)

SIGGRAPH BOF - failed

Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

From: G Blair

The Open Source booth was busy demonstrating packages such as gimp, blender, inkscape, and others. The degree of confidence varied. Sample questions such as, "How do I remove red-eye?" stymied several volunteer gimp operators.

Yep, open source people could learn to answer to that kind of questions. The similar happens in pro-audio side as well.

Could you add more background information to the snippet taken from another message/list?

Was this part of some kind of test performed during SIGGRAPH?

Michael

GSR - FR
2006-08-07 23:57:26 UTC (over 17 years ago)

SIGGRAPH BOF - failed

Hi,
schumaml@gmx.de (2006-08-07 at 2238.07 +0200):

Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

From: G Blair

The Open Source booth was busy demonstrating packages such as gimp, blender, inkscape, and others. The degree of confidence varied. Sample questions such as, "How do I remove red-eye?" stymied several volunteer gimp operators.

Yep, open source people could learn to answer to that kind of questions. The similar happens in pro-audio side as well.

Could you add more background information to the snippet taken from another message/list?

The one that originates the thread seems to be http://www.nabble.com/SIGGRAPH-BOF---failed-t2051545.html
http://www.blendernation.com/ has multiple articles with videos (download or google) covering what happened around the Open Source booth, mostly from Blender POV, but you can see the demo schedule in one of the videos, the booth in general, the global look of the exhibition floor...

http://david.navi.cx/blog/?p=109 has also some comments and photos.

Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/ Aqsis http://www.aqsis.org/ and Verse http://www.uni-verse.org/ seem to have some "i will be there" in the news or planet areas. No mention in Gimp pages. :[

About BoF meetings you can look at http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/main.php?f=conference&p=birds and find Blender, Verse, Xorg, BRL-CAD or Ogre managed to get a one. They are casual talks about a given topic.

Was this part of some kind of test performed during SIGGRAPH?

Based in the activities, it sounds pretty much like someone passed by and asked in the free time. Same than others could had asked how to adjust an animation in Blender or solve some render artifact in Aqsis.

GSR