On December 15, we did a short demonstration of Free Software related to media at the International Film Festival of Kerala. We showed Blender, Audacity, Kino, Adore, etc., although we could not really demonstrate all features of the applications since we did not have anyone who was experienced in using them. However, Blender and Adore attracted some attention and a few professionals talked to us after the demo. I understand that a couple of other people collected our contact details from the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy (organisers of the Festival) later. We had put up a few posters at the major venue (Kairali-Sree theatre complex) earlier.
IFFK is considered as one of the top ten Film Festivals in the world, and we are happy that we could get an entry there. We hope to plan and conduct similar demonstrations in the coming years. A report on the demo with a couple of photographs will be put up on our web page soon.
On 12/17/05, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com wrote:
On December 15, we did a short demonstration of Free Software related to media at the International Film Festival of Kerala. We showed Blender, Audacity, Kino, Adore, etc.,
^^^^ It is ardour ( http://www.ardour.org) We Talked about cinelerra too.
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On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 11:00 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:
On 12/17/05, V. Sasi Kumar sasi.fsf@gmail.com wrote:
On December 15, we did a short demonstration of Free Software related to media at the International Film Festival of Kerala. We showed Blender, Audacity, Kino, Adore, etc.,
^^^^It is ardour ( http://www.ardour.org)
:-) Shows lack of familiarity.
We Talked about cinelerra too.
Yes. We showed the interface, but could not demonstrate its use. In the case of Ardour, a sound engineer told us that the interface is very similar to the one that he uses, and therefore should be easy to learn. He said he has been impressed by the ideology of Free Software and has tried to use Mandrake. He is interested in using Ardour, but was not sure whether the owners of the place where he works would be interested.
The launch event for the first draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 will be at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA, on January 16-17, 2006.
For details, see: http://gplv3.fsf.org/launch
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