hi,

i am in an interesting situation here. i live in the same area as the latest gimp author http://gimpbook.com/

this area is Mountain View, California. it is very much to my dismay that i have not *seen* akkana since we celebrated her birthday in 2004. i humbly submit that i also did not press her or ask her to take time from her busy life to spend time with me. i asked once, i determined that if this was not enough to get a time in her very very busy schedule, that i would just be privately sad about this and wait until the book came out.

well, the book is out now and interestingly enough, the GIMP Animation Plug-in is in need of testing before its release. i would like to kill two birds with one stone (which is an old fashioned phrase meaning to do to jobs at one time) and get some movies of akkana signing her book.

akkana has suggested that we meet at a linux user group. the problem i have with the local linux user groups is that the public is invited, but if friends and people you know are not available to help you to attend, they are not so public after all. (something like the demolition plans that were mentioned in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, where the plans were made public, but in a basement and filed safely from notice)

i would like the opportunity to use my little camera to film akkana at a real book signing. like at a mall of one of the local bookstores. i am not afraid of the real public, in fact, by now, i would prefer it.

akkana herself is very experienced with the professional world, having been hired at one time by mozilla and also from her work with the local astronomy club. me, all i can do apparently is to write about how other people are able to use GIMP in this world. i am fine with this role. i don't even mind extending my debt just a little more to enable Akkana to advance even further in life than she already has in the world of free software.

it would be my honor and pleasure, even.

any ideas about accessible local bookstores for Akkana to have a book signing that i can film?

thanks,

carol

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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:40:14PM -0700, saulgoode@brickfilms.com wrote:

Carol Spears wrote:

well, the book is out now and interestingly enough, the GIMP Animation Plug-in is in need of testing before its release.

I am not really sure what this means but if you are seeking volunteers to follow the instructions in the book for using the GAP then I would be willing. Although

well, i actually meant that i needed something to film so i could use GAP. filming my friend akkana signing her book would be a film i could get locally and i have so many reasons to want to see the success.

this is the reason i sent it to her publisher as well. only publishers know what it is they had in mind when they found their authors. i suspect that the publisher has been helping her all through the process. how does the print world work? it is me guessing how it works. i fully admit to that.

I would ask that the appropriate section(s) be e-mailed to me as I doubt that I will be purchasing it in the near future (most of the stuff which interests me is more technical and only to be had by reading the source).

i bought gimp books back in the day when i had money. i enjoyed it when i thought i was helping to sell them as well.

the testing actually needs to be done with cvs-gap. i am living in such an environment where right now, i can only imagine how the "professionals" work and what they work with. there is very little to film here and working on image stacks that are not very inspiring to me is like working on image stacks that are not very inspiring to me.

capturing a few images of a person chosen by a publisher who finished their task and made it into print -- this would be an inspiring film for me. and probably the testing of GAP would be easier if i had a goal in mind.

I am starting to gain a pretty good grasp of the GAP, due in large part to the tutorials on your site.

hof wrote the best one, with all due respect. i put it online. i guess my site gets a lot of traffic. sometimes i even wonder if the web site i have authored is what is actually being seen.

perhaps you could pass a long a screenshot or two of the things that you see in your browser when you see my site? i have not checked my site from another computer for years now. it might help me to see exactly what you see while i am working on the rewrite....

Good luck with your filming.

yep, well, while gimp does not understand printer colors -- this gimp tutorial author does not understand exactly how the print industry works.

i admit, sometimes it looks like a bad trap. getting the opportunity to film a success story like akkanas would help me to dispell this feeling. i am actually glad to be behind the camera at this point in my life.

how does the print industry work, btw?

carol