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Some insights on Google Summer of Code

Alexandre 5. Feb, 2012 1 Opinion

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.

google, gsoc, gsoc2012

News / Software / Development

What’s up with DWG adoption in free software?

Alexandre 26. Jan, 2012 14 Opinions

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.

News / Development

DSP programming language Faust is getting LV2 support

Alexandre 24. Jan, 2012 No Opinions

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.

faust, lv2, synths, effects

News / Drivers / Development

First public version of libwacom released

Alexandre 19. Dec, 2011 4 Opinions

Back in September during an interview Peter Hutterer mentioned that linuxwacom team was considered a new project — a library that would allow applications to get more information about a tablet and its features. The first version of that library was released last weekend.

linuxwacom, wacom, tablets

News / Development

What’s new with re-lab and OLE Toy

Alexandre 2. Sep, 2011 No Opinions

It's been a while since we last posted on OLE Toy — a utility we wrote as part of re-lab project that attempts to liberate you from vendor lock-in. So here is a recap on our activity up till now.

re-lab, reverse-engineering, oletoy

News / Development

Google Summer of Code 2011 is over

Alexandre 31. Aug, 2011 3 Opinions

This Monday the Google Summer of Code 2011 program was officially over. Regarding main graphics organizations such as GIMP, Inkscape and Blender it was most successful: barely any losses and enough new features and polish to keep you busy checking them in weeks to come.

gsoc, gsoc2011

News / Software / Development

IfcOpenShell, open source BIM project, is seeking help

Alexandre 28. Aug, 2011 No Opinions

Ever wondered if there could be a fully open source building information modeling (BIM) solution? It's right here, it's called IfcOpenShell and it could do with some assistance.

News / Development

JUCE gets an LV2 wrapper

Alexandre 26. Aug, 2011 1 Opinion

FalkTX who is mostly known as maintainer of KXSstudio, an Ubuntu spin-off for audio/music production, started a new exciting project.

juce, lv2

News / Software / Development

Blender Foundation announces plans for 2012

Alexandre 8. Aug, 2011 3 Opinions

One would expect Blender Foundation to tell about their plans for the next year at Blender Conference this October, but SIGGRAPH came first. Essentially, the plans cover both technical development, marketing and social networking.

blender-foundation, blender

News / Development

GEGL to become more accessible to 3rd party developers

Alexandre 1. Jul, 2011 No Opinions

Jon Nordby started moving part of GEGL library to a separate project. The point is to make this new GIMP's core image library accessible to 3rd party developers.

gegl, mypaint

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