jpeg2RAW Guest Spot
An interview! LGM update! And Github?
Mike Howard, the host and creator of the jpeg2RAW podcast reached out to me last week to see if I might be able to come on the show to talk about Free Software Photography and what weāve been up to here. One of the primary reasons for creating this site was to be able to raise awareness of the Free Software community to a wider audience.
So this is a great opportunity for us to expose ourselves!
Exposing Ourselves
The podcast airs live this Tuesday, February 23rd at 8PM Eastern (-0500). You can join us at the jpeg2RAW live podcast page! Mike has the live feed available to watch on that page and also has a chat server set up so viewers can interact with us live during the broadcast.
If you are free on Tuesday night then come on by and join us! Iāll be happy to field any questions you want answered (and that Mike asks) and will do my best to not embarrass myself (or our community). If you would like to make sure I address something in particular (or just donāt forget something), I also have a thread on discuss where you can make sure I know it.
Iām also looking for community members to submit some photos to help highlight our work and whatās possible with Free Software. Feel free to link them in the same thread as above. Iāve already convinced andabata to point us to some of his great macro shots (like that awesome lede image) and Iāll be submitting a few of my own images as well. If you have some works that youād like to share please let me know!
In Case You Miss It
Mike has all of his prior podcasts archived on his Podcasts page. So if you miss the live show it looks like youāll be able to catch up later at your convenience.
LGM Update
As mentioned previously we are heading to London for Libre Graphics Meeting 2016! Weāve got a flat rented for a great crew to be able to stay together and weāre on track for a PIXLS meet up before LGM!
Speaking of people, Iām looking forward to being able to spend some time with some great folks again this year! Weāve got Tobias, Johannes, and Pascal making it out (Iām not sure that Simon, top below, will be making it out) from darktable, DrSlony and qogniw from RawTherapee, Andrea Ferrero creator of PhotoFlow, even Ofnuts (how cool is that?) may make it out!
Weāve also already had a great response so far on our Pledgie campaign. The campaign is still running if you want to help out!
If anyone is thinking theyād like to make it out to join us, please let me know as soon as possible so we can plan for space!
My friend and model Mairi will also be making it out for the meeting. Sheāll be on hand to help us practice lighting setups, model interactions, and will likely be shooting right along with the rest of us as well!
Iāll also be assembling slides for my presentation during LGM. Iāve got a 20 minute time slot to talk about the community weāve been building here and the neat things our members have been up to (Filmulator, PhotoFlow, and more).
Speaking of slides and sharing informationā¦
Github Organization
Iāve setup a Github Pixls organization so that we can begin to share various things. This came about after talking with @paperdigits on the post about the upcoming podcast at jpeg2RAW. We were talking about ways to share information and assets for creating/delivering presentations about Free Software photography.
At the moment there is only the single repository Presentations as we are figuring out structure. Iāve uploaded my slides and notes from the LGM2015 State of the Libre Graphics presentation announcing PIXLS. If youāre on Github and want to join us just let me know!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://pixls.us/blog/2016/02/jpeg2raw-guest-spot/