[Noisebridge-discuss] Adobe Lightroom class - Thursday March 3rd, 19:00

[Gardner]

Blender sucks! Illusion Mage is way better!

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/23/0011250/Trying-To-Lure-Suckers-Company-Resells-Open-Source-Blender

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:
> NB I am guilty, if that's the word, of being a closed-source EagleCAD evangelist
> even though there are perfectly workable FOSS alternatives (GEDA, KiCAD).
> Sometimes it's more about the tools.
>
> Having said that, there's some fine FOSS design toolchains out there:
> Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, QCAD, the above mentioned GEDA.
> Is it time for a FOSS scrum? I'm up enough on the learning curves of
> Blender and QCAD I could give a 5 min overview on how to get started.
> QCAD in particular might be handy now that we have a laser cutter.
>
> Anyone used BRL-CAD?
>
> -J
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>> Jonathan Foote wrote, On 20110225 091541:
>>> Is that a creative spelling of "http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=556"?
>>
>> I for one would kill for an open source replacement to Lightroom, sadly
>> none really exist right now. The closest things are blueMarine and
>> RawTherapee, both of which are really far from acting as a mature photo
>> management product, let alone non-destructive photo editors.
>>
>> There are a couple of close sourced payware solutions for Linux, up at
>> the top is Bibble which I've heard good things about but again, no
>> Lightroom.
>>
>> Additionally if someone were to teach classes regarding any of these or
>> other Linux based photo editors, I'd be happy to sit in. Surprised no
>> ones done a 12 step program at Noisebridge yet for getting off the
>> Photoshop crack to removing the vale of bad UI design and flow of The GIMP.
>>
>> --
>> Rubin Abdi
>> rubin at starset.net
>>
>>
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