[Digikam-devel] [Fwd: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE:CREATE project]

Nir Dremer mailing at dremer.org
Sun Sep 18 21:47:53 BST 2005


FYI.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
> To: GIMP dev list <gimp-developer at lists.xcf.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE:CREATE project
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:38:13 +0400
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm representing CREATE project [1]
> 
> Creative Free and Open Source projects such as Blender, GIMP,
> Inkscape, Scribus, Audacity, Open Clip Art Library and others are
> highly successful projects which produce much video, audio,
> illustrations, photos, and other content.
> 
> However, much code, media, and infrastructure are produced by each
> project somewhat independently which could be shared inter-project.
> For example, several of the aforementioned applications have their own
> brush types, color preferences, preferred media storage locations,
> keyboard shortcuts and file format converters. Sharing these resources
> saves developer time, increases productivity, and contributes to an
> overall improved user experience.
> 
> Because of this overlap and the similarity of media, there is need to
> work together on standards, promotions, and inter-community plans. So,
> goals of our project are:
> 
> - to reach agreement on standards between developers of different
> creative applications;
> - to improve existing resources formats to make them meet requirements
> from power users (like DTP people);
> - to create and support openclipart-like repository of shared
> resources with periodical releases.
> 
> Following areas of interest in our project are related to GIMP's development:
> 
> - Shared resources [2];
> - new uniform color swatches file format [3];
> - clipboard exchange;
> - terminology.
> 
> Meeting place for discussions is our mailing list [4]. If you think
> that you can contribute, please join it. We also provide a planet-type
> blog aggregation [1], so if you are a GIMP developer/contributor and
> you feel like you want to share your ideas and plans in a less
> official form, let us know.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alexandre
> 
> [1] http://create.freedesktop.org
> [2] http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Shared_resources
> [3] http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Swatches_-_colour_file_format
> [4] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
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