About

Libre Arts
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Welcome to Libre Arts. This is an online blog for creative professionals using free/libre applications for digital painting, graphic and web design, desktop publishing, photography, architecture, and mechanical engineering.

Free software is a rapidly evolving niche, we feel that this fact should be better represented on the web which is exactly what we do. In many ways foundation of this project was triggered by Ginger Coons’s talk “Ownership and Standards: Why Designers are Slow to Adopt Open Source” at Libre Graphics Meeting 2009.

We sometimes (seldom, really) cover selected proprietary software that works on Linux, if it’s interesting enough, has no direct free software alternative, and/or its developers contribute to free/libre software. A perfect example would be Harrison Consoles’ Mixbus which is a fork of Ardour digital adio workstation, with developers contributing to Ardour in both code and money.

Contacts

We are interested to hear from you what topics you would us to cover next, what new interesting applications we missed, what excellent work was done using free software.

There are different ways to get in touch with us. First of all, you can email. We also actively maintain a Twitter account where we post interesting things related to free software that don’t qualify for a full-fledged article.

The team

The project was founded and is currently managed by Aleksandr Prokudin who is affiliated with several free/libre projects such as Ardour and FreeCAD.

The new website was made possible thanks to the PIXLS.US team:

Former contributors:

  • Maxim Barabash, web programming. Contributor to sK1, PrintDesign, UniConvertor. Twitter: @Maxim_Barabash.
  • Igor Novikov, web programming. Lead developer of sK1 vector graphics editor.
  • Vera Lobacheva, web programming. Contributor to Open Clip Art Library. Twitter: @summerstyle.

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