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GIMP at the Chaos Communication Camp

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GIMP at the Chaos Communication Camp Sven Neumann 18 Jun 16:19
Sven Neumann
2003-06-18 16:19:22 UTC (almost 21 years ago)

GIMP at the Chaos Communication Camp

Hi friends of Wilber,

most of you should have already hurt about it but yet another announcement of the camp can't possibly hurt and I will try to focus more on the users point of view this time...

The GIMP users and developers will be represented at the Chaos Communication Congress 2003. This is an international gathering of hackers which is going to take place 7/8/9/10th August 2003 on a field near Berlin, Germany. There will be a place to put your tent, there will be power and internet (155 MBit, wired and wireless) for the three thousand expected visitors. During the four days, lots of workshops and talks are going to happen but located next to a nice lake, the camp is also a place to relax and communicate. For more details, please visit

https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/CampOverview.

During the camp, the GIMP developers will meet to discuss the future of The GIMP, to hack on it, to exchange ideas and visions. There will be a dedicated GIMP Tent where the conference will take place. This is however not meant to be a closed event where only approved developers are welcome. The GIMP Tent will provide space for everyone GIMP addicted. We want to bring together users and developers, talk about GIMP, hack on it, use The GIMP, watch others using it ... The GimpTent page in the Wiki lists quite a few things that might happen. What exactly happens depends on the people that come to the camp and show up in our tent:

https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GimpTent

As you can see we have some plans already but a lot is still open and we are also still not sure how many users we can expect and what they do expect from the GIMP Tent. One of the reasons I'm writing this mail is to encourage you to come to the camp and to announce this by sending me a mail or adding your name to the list of GimpPeople that is maintained in the CampWiki:

https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/TheGIMPPeople

We are still missing a few things to make the GIMP Tent a success. Most notably that is computer hardware. It would be shame to have GIMP users and GIMP developers but not to have enough hardware to run The GIMP on. Most people that come by car probably consider to bring a computer. We want to invite you to setup your hardware in the GIMP Tent.

Judging from the experiences made in 1999 when the first chaos communication camp took place in the same location, it is preferable to have a place in a large tent with tables and chairs instead of trying to put up a desktop PC in your own tent on the prairie. The camp organisators will provide a very large tent for this purpose, see https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/HackCenter. But since you are a GIMP user, you probably want to spend a lot of time in the GIMP tent anyway. So, if you want to bring your desktop PC, feel invited, but please let us know beforehand.

Whoever follows the gimp-developer list has probably heard rumours that we might manage to Bring out the GIMP at the camp. So you better come or you might miss a nice release party...

Sven