Date: May 05/01/14 12:25 PM Subject: BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Free Software for Photographers - Weds, May 7, 2014 From: Will Rico When: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 6:30PM Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Directions http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html Also easily accessibly by T. Notes 1) To kickstart the meeting, we'll have a brief talk on DRM by FSF Licensing & Compliance Manager Joshua Gay. 2) See the "More Events" section for a separate event on Tuesday for Day Against DRM. 3) Please note the location is different from BLU's standard MIT meeting location. 4) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space and 'free as in food' for this meeting. Thank you to our sponsor! http://www.akamai.com/ Summary Do you take photos? Do you ever need to enhance your photos? What about organize them? If you answered "yes" to any of these, join us for part 2 of our series on Free Software for Photographers. Dick Miller is going to teach us Fotoxx, a free open source GNU/Linux program for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use. What you will learn: -- Index images and create photo collections -- Adjust brightness, color and gamma curves -- Sharpen, blur and reduce noise -- Anti-alias: suppress "jaggies" in low-rez images -- Apply special effects -- Much more! Bring your questions, your laptop, and even your photos if you'd like! Transportation & Parking The Akamai office is a short walk from the Kendall Square T stop and other public transportation. Metered parking is normally available near our location. More Events & Announcements Day Against DRM Tues May 6 at Best Buy Fenway http://meetu.ps/2kWnnq OpenCL: Parallel Programming Weds May 21 at MIT http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2014-may _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce