On 2003-05-07 at 1817.44 +0200, Sven Neumann typed this:

The GIMP Developers Conference
7/8/9/10th August 2003

We have choosen to have the conference at the Chaos Communication Camp which is an international hacker open air gathering that takes place near Berlin (Germany). There's a website dedicated to this event and actually this website is a Wiki [1]. During this mail, I will point you to some interesting spots in this Wiki. Don't worry if the term Wiki doesn't ring a bell, you will figure it out.

The camp is an outdoor event with a few thousand hackers camping on a field near Berlin. There will be electrical power and internet available all over the place. There is a small lake nearby, food and drinks are sold for reasonable prices, there will be music and everything is a lot like a hippie event but with computers all over the place. But see for yourself:

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

The camp will offer a lot of lectures and workshops (which are all supposed to be in english). There will be some large tents for talks accompaigned by smaller tents where people get together on specific topics. The GIMP is supposed to be one of these topics. So we will have a GIMP tent which means we have our own place to talk GIMPy things and interested people can just step in and join us. Hopefully this will also attract some new contributors to the GIMP project. We've already established some GimpCulture in the camp wiky system and suggest you start your journey from the

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

If you are interested to attend, you surely have more questions. Some of them may already be answered in the

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

The GIMP Developers Conference [2] is mainly targetted at GIMP developers but the GIMP tent should give room for other GIMP related activities as well. There will be people from the GIMP Web Team [3] and we surely wouldn't mind to meet some Gimp users [4].

Actually, it should be a nice opportunity to exchange ideas about what TheGIMP can do and could do. I bet that the developers will like the users. Even now, they are still suprised sometimes about what the users and artists can get TheGIMP to do.

Please use the anarchistic publishing features that the Wiki offers and add your ideas, comments, questions,... to our Wiki pages.

the wiki has been a lot of fun. there are many plug-ins to fiddle with. if you join, be sure to try to work through getting your WikiUser page into TheGIMPPeople page. the navigation is easy to work with, if not straight foreward. i will do what i can to help.

do not wait until you have your ticket and such to play at the wiki!! who know when and where your resources for attending the gimpcon will come from, best to have a good showing at the wiki already, imo.

also, keep your eye open for any available resources to make the gimpcon and your attendence happen. it has been my experience with TheGIMP that everything you need is right there for the taking. you just have to beat the SEP effect (SomeoneElsesProblem). the way to do that is to keep looking into the periphery, or out of the corner of your eye.

you can help so much by showing your gimp stuff, gimp ideas and any gimp love you have that you can show to a smart adult audience.

i was so jealous about the last gimpcon. don't be like me. i want to be there this time, and i would like for you to be also.

come play with me at the wiki! once the FullCavityBodySearch is over (getting into ccc things can be so interesting on its own ...) the wiki has been a very nice experience for me. i think it would be even nicer with more of TheGIMPPeople there.

also, if you learn something and think you can help others, feel free to hit edit on ImaGimpuser and make her more educational ;)

carol &

Sven

[1] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/WhatIsAWiki [2] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GIMPDevelopersConference [3] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GIMPWebTeam [4] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GimpUsers

Is there any way to deactivate the "crop" window that pops up everytime you use the "crop" command? It keeps getting in the way. What should be a 2 step crop (click drag, crop) turns into a 4 step job (click-drag, move window, adjust selection, crop).

Thanks, Wayne