Libre Graphics World

Yesterday Google announced Summer of Code 2012 program that will run for the 8th time and attract hundreds of students from around the world to improve free and open source software. We've collected some insights for you.

Due to blackout of gphoto.org the new version of gPhoto, a library for downloading pictures from digital cameras, went completely unnoticed. This is the first new version in almost a year, and it comes with support for nearly 30 new devices.

Back in November we reported that Victor Oliveira got a contract with AMD to implement a basic working GPU-side processing in GIMP based on GEGL. Today Victor has some results to share.

Folks from SVG Cleaner project, announced earlier this month, released an important update that fixes bugs, adds new features and introduces an installer for Windows.

Developers of Scribus, a free desktop publishing application, improved support for IDML file format used by Adobe InDesign and added support for IDMS files.

Having been asked recently about reasons for lack of DWG support in free software, we started digging and very nearly fell into a pitch black abyss.

Albert Gräf released first public version of faust-lv2 — an attempt to mate Faust, a DSP programming language, with LV2, an API for effects and virtual instruments.

Colord, the new color management framework for Linux, is more about evolution lately. However some of the changes have a deep impact on the whole infrastructure. Which is yet again proven by an update released earlier today.

Developers of Wacom drivers for Linux are really back to releasing new stable versions at an enviable pace. They have just released updates to drivers for Linux kernel and X, as well as a new version of libwacom.

In less than three weeks Brussels gets its annual peak concentration of geeks. On February 4-5 the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is bringing together developers and users of free software.