Monthly Archives: July 2010

Bringing the Libre: An Interview with Free Software Developer Jon Phillips

At the recent Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels, I had the lucky pleasure of meeting Jon Phillips, a man with seemingly as many projects in a given moment as he has fingers and toes. Just a few of his notable involvements include: vector graphics application Inkscape, the Open Clipart Library, the innovative web application stack Aiki Framework, the fully-federated Twitter replacement Status.net (which powers identi.ca), and the projects (palm-top computer, video camera, and portable VJ station) being developed at Qi Hardware. All of these projects are free in the ontological imperative sense.


Graphics con Libre: Designing tools for design outside and beyond the proprietary

Though I’m following up quite late, I wanted to list highlights of the presentations I attended at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels (about which I’ve blogged before). While I strongly suggest you look at the recorded presentation archive so that you don’t miss any presentations that you might find interesting, I’ll also highlight a few of my…