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You can never keep all of the people happy all of the time! And when it comes to communities its a nightmare. A few days ago, Team FOSS.IN/2007 released some fabulous posters in order to help with the promotion of the event. The posters are essentially the work of Hari who has been doing the artwork for FOSS.IN for the past few years and absolutely excelling at it. He did have some help from a few photographers to get the photos but he manages to change them magically into these wonderful posters.
Would you believe the amount of negativity that is floating around these posters, starting with “…were these created using FOSS tools or not?” and “…why have you only got developers?” and “these only talk about the presenters, whats in it for the audience/participants” the list just seems to go on and on.
I am not even going to attempt to answer any of these questions, all I’d like to say is that in the past few years that I have seen Hari working with graphic tools, I have seen a conscious effort to move from proprietary software tools to FOSS tools. He does sometimes, use a few filters and effects that he can’t as yet get with the FOSS tools, but by and large he sticks with FOSS. His laptop runs only Ubuntu the last time I saw it.
So for anyone wanting to criticise the posters, please think again. They are great works of art and the artist is doing the best he can to use FOSS tools to create these works. And after all that, he also releases the works under a Creative Commons license. What else do you want?
Anyways, here’s a sample of the work:
Cheers…Kishore
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Every now and then I get the urge to check the most current versions of WordPress and Gallery and upgrade my blog. A few days ago, I found that I had actually missed one of the upgrade cycles for WordPress. The new version 2.3 has been out for a month and I never realised it. […]
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Well, at least closer to FOSS.IN/2007. There was much confusion on the CfP and the real role of the conference but after a CfP reboot and much discussions on the mailing lists the event is back on track. Lots of great talks have been received, the CfP closed, Project Day allocations have begun, speakers now […]
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Today is Jyoti’s birthday. A very happy birthday to you. Its tough making blog entries for someone you love so much. There is so much to tell and yet there is so much you don’t want to tell. Its very special and thats the only reason there have been no posts about Jyoti earlier. She […]
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Its scary, the number of days to go for freed.in is less than 10! Lots of work still to be done, unfortunately I had to travel to Bangalore for a few days so am slightly out of the whole action. However, I did notice that the speaker list was revised and a fresh workshop list […]
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Just about two weeks left for the event and as you can imagine activity is at its peak. Today the first shortlist of speakers and talks was published and it looks it will be a lot of fun. Some real gems hidden in that list so go and stare it for a while. I have […]
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The days have been ticking away and we are now a month away from the event freed.in. Lots of exciting things happening and we are hoping to have a successful and grand time. The first hurdle of sponsorships has been overcome and the response has been overwhelming, we got Intel very rapidly and others are […]
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I have for a long time wanted to be able to shoot celestial objects, somehow most of my experiments resulted in dark and blurry images not really capturing what I saw. I recently read a tip which I thought I’d try out and this was the result of it:
To get this shot, I set my […]
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There’s great Jazz and then there’s great Jazz.
Its happening right here in Gurgaon, but people don’t seem to know about it. The little business hotel on way into Gurgaon, Fortune Select has some great music and musicians but not enough people coming in to listen. I saw the hoardings a few weeks ago and I […]
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Hi! I’m on the lookout for a new home. In case you happen to know of any good families that need looking after, do point them in my direction. I’d be glad to take over their lives and help them to be better human beans!
My name is Shadow and I am 5 months old.
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