During our current Scribus renderframe experiments day, Ivan shows us a customised Wordpress template with a gorgeous index page in Unicode for the Circular Facts website.
The first months of 2011
What the first half of the new OSP-year looks like from here:
January
Start with a bang: Monday January 3 all OSPs gather for a Scribus experiment. You'll hear more about once we get there! Antoine from l'École Estienne, Paris joins us for an internship of three months. We have …Use Cases and Affordances
Enjoying the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine First Flight too? In the mean time, the editorial team started working on a brand new one! The theme for the upcoming magazine is Use Cases and Affordances:
Our software tools, in their affordances and potential use cases, define for us, to …
Chaîne typo-graphique ouverte
Nous fêtons demain le premier cours Open Source de l'ERG.
In September started a fisrt "arts numériques" open source course at the École de Recherche Graphique.
Visit the course wiki.
The students will be proud to present the first specimens of their pictures-fonts.
And in exclusivity we will play …When Free Culture infiltrates art and design fields...
We are always thrilled when we see design projects around free culture. Lately the blog Manystuff has enlightened a lot of this kind of projects, either on/with Open Source or around free of charge culture, public domain...
Here is a summary:
- Free Kevin — A Hacker screening series — Can't find …
Archipel Opening
Archipel is both a permanent collection, a website and a travelling exhibition. It intends to propose an intuitive exploration of adventurous music and images appeared since the early twentieth century.
Archipel has chosen to group these discs and films as "islands" involving artists (or works) that share similar creative practices …Scribus Re-loaded
Fresh news from Paris:
Since a few months the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie supports the Scribus team. The goal is to make the program ready for new developers and users from Asia and Africa and this is *very* good news for the rest of us too!
The project goes …
Text engine القطع الأثرية
On the way to a new text engine, the nice things that will be lost.
As of revision 15877, Scribus displays severals paragraphs, fully shaped and featured, but remains uncertain of where to put them. The Scribus/OIF project goes on, aiming, among other things, to make graphic designers a …from cage to pipeline
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H E Y ! Libre Graphics Magazine #1 is out !
Bravo Ana, ginger, Ricardo + the whole team and participants.
Follow the details about the production process and order soon your copy from their blog.Infiltrating culture in a positive way
The opening talk therefore sounds like a manifest, asking to valorize Free Software, in order to "infiltrate culture in a positive way". Pierre Marchand, member of the OSP collective, presenting a collaborative ornamental font, supports this proposal totally: "In our domain, the freedom of software is the single tool to …