[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Re: Know GIMP? Know Inkscape? Want to host a class?

Corey McGuire coreyfro at coreyfro.com
Thu Sep 8 22:36:22 UTC 2011


Who can meet tuesday night to discuss authoring and teaching content? I have
an inkscape tutorial that i need to recreate (lost it to a hard drive
failure) that i could bang out in a couple hours with some help.

On Sep 8, 2011 1:52 PM, "Erik JM Schneider" <eriktrips at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would also be interested in a GIMP/inkscape tutorial, and I am happy
> to lend out my teaching skills, such as they are. I have taught
> university classes before and could team up with someone who knew
> about GIMP (Kelly? Corey?) and/or facilitate a self-study group if we
> wanted to go that way. I've taught at length on texts I've only read
> that morning. :)
>
> I've also been using Photoshop for over a decade, although primarily
> for digital production, so I do not know much about print production
> beyond making a photo look decent on a bubble jet printer, but I have
> some color theory in me and a fair amount of trial and error learnings
> that I could try to convert into GIMP terms with others' help.
>
> I have managed to remain Wiki-ignorant for the most part but can take
> a shot at putting up a NB page if others are reluctant to do so. Fools
> rush in and all that. If nobody else has done it by tomorrow morning I
> will try my hand at it.  So, um, if anyone would like to prevent that,
> now is your chance.
>
> Erik
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:09, Elizabeth Sarah Quirk Goodman
> <elizabethsqg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd be interested in a GIMP tutorial.  I'd got frustrated trying to do
> > one simple drawing-on-a-picture with GIMP some time ago and switched
> > to Inkscape instead.  I have been thinking of taking another charge at
> > the learning curve, and can probably think of things to request.
> > Best,
> > Quirk
> > P.S. Many things that are easy in one n00b's perspective are
> > frustrating in another's, you know (take it from a mathematician in a
> > communicative department :)).
> >
> > 2011/9/7 Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>:
> >> I'd be willing to help.  I use GIMP exclusively, but I'm not a graphics
geek
> >> by any stretch.  I use inkscape as much or less for graphic work than I
do
> >> for laser/plasma cutting.
> >>
> >> GIMP is easy.  I think people who don't like it fall in to two
categories,
> >> people who don't want to learn something new or people who don't want
to
> >> learn the concepts behind photo editing. OSS tools are built for people
who
> >> are unencumbered by limits to their desire to learn.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I use gimp exclusively. I'd be up for doing some tutorial. Can we make
> >>> a wiki page where people can request things? I know Gimp but I don't
> >>> know know how to teach a software class...
> >>>
> >>> We could just have a mutual worktime workshop.
> >>>
> >>> -Kelly
> >>>
> >>> PS. I know some inkscape as well.
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 00:26, Michael C. Toren <mct at toren.net> wrote:
> >>> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:53:28AM +0200, Felipe Sanches wrote:
> >>> >> Oh! And I forgot to mention but... I have been twice to Noisebridge
in
> >>> >> the past and I may go to San Francisco again in the end of October
for
> >>> >> the Google Summer of Code mentors summit.  Then I may host a class
on
> >>> >> Inkscape for you guys, if you are still interested.
> >>> >
> >>> > Hi Felipe, nice to meet you.  Yes!, I'd love for you to give a talk
> >>> > about Inkscape the next time you're in town.  If you need any help
> >>> > organizing this, or making it happen, please let me know.
> >>> >
> >>> >> I can also talk about my pinball machine project if there's anybody
> >>> >> interested in hearing about it.
> >>> >
> >>> > That could be fun, too. :-)
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> > -mct
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> >> --
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Albert
> >> Einstein
> >> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo Da Vinci
> >> Perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when
there
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