Activity, Preparing to LGM 2014

*Shaking off the dust*

It's been quite a while since I last posted here. Some will smile at the sight of this post, especially those who know why I was absent (a state which should change until October this year).

Not too far ago, I was invited to the Libre Graphics Meeting of 2014; one of the largest (if not the largest) annual gatherings of users and developers of Open-Source tools and programs for graphics. After having to turn down the invitation once or twice before due to problematic dates, this year I managed to arrange a "vacation" in the relevant dates and I'll actually be going!

Yesterday I finished all of the arrangements (including setting up ubuntu dual-boot on my laptop, which turned out to be way easier than I thought), and I can start thinking about LGM itself. It's going to be the first time I attend a real convention like this, and the fact that this first time is abroad and far from home does add it's share to my excitement :)

The program sounds very interesting and with a potential to cover many topics which I never had the chance to learn (such as color management and font design). Also meeting people whom I talked to by IRC in the last 4 years but never met in practice should be one of the greatest parts in LGM fromy my point of view.

So, before I depart, it's time for some thanks. The first of them is to the GIMP family - the people who always care, help and greet you with a smile after you were missing for some time. The second thank is to you - the (usually anonymous) supporters of GIMP; donations you make to GIMP, help also to reimbruse the traveling expenses to developer gatherings like LGM.

So, I'll see you there,
~ Barak

First GIMP Developer Meeting - A success!

I worked hard to arrange it, but it paid off - We had a serious gimp developer meeting, with most developers attending it :)

Thee meeting page, including the agenda and log can be found at:
http://gimp-wiki.who.ee/index.php/Hacking:Dev_Meeting_28_Feb_2011

Some of the decided actions in the meeting:

1. schumaml and LightningIsMyName fix wgo?
   wgo is a shortcut for the GIMP main website - we need it to have auto-updates again
2. Alexia and mitch take care of redirecting wiki.gimp.org
   We need to make the domain point back at a working wiki, the original one died of spam and Alexia Death has a new working one here
3. Enselic makes a draft of a GIMP roadmap and sends to gimp-developer
   Let's get some priorities!
4. everybody subscribe to bug mail and TRIAGE BUGS
   We get toooooo many bug reports, we need to start filtering them
5. mitch, make a development release soon
   Yes - that's right! GIMP 2.7.2! Now we just need to define soon :P
6. LightningIsMyName takes care of next meeting
   Hehe. I'll do that with pleasure :)
7. setting pages on the wiki to discuss changes in different topics
   Too many changes are done solo and may not be agreed upon by everyone - this is because of lack of places to show plans
8. LightningIsMyName gets a list of projects on the wiki by tomorrow, developers review the ideas by email or by commenting on the wiki. Saturday (March 5th, 2011) is hard dead line for finalizing the project list!We want to get to GSoC, so we must have a list of projects ASAP! I'm going to work on this and try to get this done tomorrow night
9. all devs PM/Email LightningIsMyName username and email
   Yeah, so if you are a GIMP dev and you don't have an account for the wiki yet, tell me!

Next meeting: March 14 2011 10:00 PM CET (GMT+1)

If you want to influence GIMP development, and/or contribute, come and attend the next meeting. Just note that the agenda will be decided by email several days ahead, on the developer mailing list - so submit your ideas there. You can also jump to irc://irc.gimp.org/#gimp and people will help you there if you want to help the GIMP project.

GIMP Developer Meeting

Today (February 28th, 2011), at 10pm CET a meeting of GIMP developers is scheduled on the GIMP developer IRC.

Agenda:

• GSoC 2011 - ORG Application deadline is in 11 days!
• Bug fixing priorities
• Future development?
• Make an official wiki working again (i.e. make wiki.gimp.org pointing at it)! Can be done either by making http://gimp-wiki.who.ee/ the official wiki, or potentially using some other available servers (will be discussed in depth on the meeting)
• Make a roadmap on the official wiki
• Try and decide on clear release policy for beta builds - I personally would like to see more recent beta releases, and the last one was 7 months ago!
• Anything else? =)

If you want to discuss GIMP's future, GSoC this year, and just listen, please come. We will meet on irc://irc.gimp.org/#gimp (Users without IRC client can connect using this link).

Edit: The wrong time was displayed - it's february 28th, not the 27th