Category: Software Announcements

Gimp-Perl release candidate ready for testing

  By Articles, FLOSS, Imaging, OSS

It’s been possible to use various scripting languages to automate GIMP for a long time. But until recently Perl bindings for GIMP were considerably out of date due to lack of interest from contributors. Fortunately, a while ago Ed J started working on updating those, and now a release candidate is available for testing.

Gimp-Perl version 2.30_05 is on CPAN now. It supports GIMP 2.8 and provides the following features:

  • An autosave script (not installed by default, examples/autosave2) will save in its own directory files that were opened and changed, then reopen them on GIMP startup; if installed, will start along with GIMP.
  • A plugin registry viewer, installed by default to Filters/Browse Plug-in Registry.
  • A Perl console, installed by default to Filters/Perl/Console.

The way to install the release candidate on Linux is:

perl -MCPAN -e "install 'ETJ/Gimp-2.30_05.tar.gz'"

If you encounter any bugs, please report them on bugzilla.gnome.org.

BitCoins

  By Articles, Finance, on-line

BitCoins hija sistema ta’ kreditu fejn persuna tista toffri servizzi jew tinnegozja direttament minghajr htiega ta’ intermedjarju.  Peress li BitCoins mhux munita, it-transazzjonijiet mhux ikkontrollati minn ligijiet finanzjarji, pero kull persuna hija suggetta li kull qliegh li jsir jigi dikkjarat a fini ta’ taxxa. Biex tuza BitCoins persuna ghandha bzonn kont sigur fuq il-kompjuter personali, jew inkella naqra iktar riskjuz on-line.  Dan l-artiklu qed jaghti ezempju b’kont miftugh go Wallet.

Il-wallet jista jixxebbah ma servizz bankarju, pero hawn mhux qed nitkellmu fuq flus.  BitCoins huma forma ta’ kreditu li jistaw jintuzaw biex jinxtraw servizzi, jinghataw donazzjonijiet jew sahansitra jigi nnegozzjat. Ghalhekk il-valur ta’ BitCoin hija volatili. Wallet jista jkollu numru ta’ kontijiet, identifikati minn indirizz, e.g. 135T6hKGMXEF2AfsT6Ev263pmWPkfapvLo u huwa necessarju biex jinghataw is-servizzi u biex tippartecipa fis-sistema tal-BitCoins.

 

Source: http://www.rabatmalta.com/?page_id=13455

Libre Graphics Meeting 2014

  By Articles, FLOSS, Imaging, OSS

The Libre Graphics Meeting is a conference where artists, users, developers, designers, contributors,… who use, plan, develop, play with, tamper with free, libre and open source graphics applications, libraries, concepts,…

It is an unparalleled opportunity for them to meet, talk, discuss, listen, experience and learn about their favorite tools, the uses, the undiscovered potential, the new ideas that come with them

This year, Libre Graphics Meeting will happen at the University of Leipzig, April 2-5.

The attendees arrive from all over the world—last year, people from 26 countries traveled to Madrid to attend. Maybe there will be even more this year?

You can help to make this happen—and many of you already did.

We, the GIMP team, are covering the travel and accommodation expenses for our own team members, and we contribute to the global LGM funds as well. These funds are used to reimburse the travel expenses of contributors and speakers.

Our contribution is possible due to your donations—many, many thanks for this, the return on investment from such meetings for the projects is invaluable.

But, the LGM organizers, they ask for modest contributions, always keen not to drain the funds of the projects that attend the meeting. We’ve got our planned expenses covered for this LGM, so we’ll ask you to force them to take more! 🙂

LGM runs a travel fund pledgie campaign with an ambitious goal: $12,000. Please go there and contribute to make this awesome meeting possible.