Here is a note on Free Software for Movie industry workshop. It is scheduled for 10:30 am on 18th. Venue Hotel Horizon. Same old request ;) Volunteers pls.
About Free Software and cultural products Free Software is software that gives users the freedom to use, copy, share, study, and modify. The freedoms also make it possible to get the software free of cost. The Free Software Movement, started about a quarter of a century back, is a global movement today and a number of governments and public and private organisations are opting to use Free Software for their purposes. The Free Software movement pioneered the various movements for freedom in the digital world -- for instance, free knowledge represented by Wikipedia or freedom of creative works from copyright restrictions represented by Creative Commons. We also see a new form of social production where collaboration becomes more important than competition, where people from different parts of the world co-operate to create digital products including documents, music, movies or software. Free Software for Media production Software for movie production, such as video editors, sound editors and animation software are now available as Free Software. Blender (http://blender.org), for example, is a powerful tool for 3D animation that is becoming popular. Two short animation films have been created by a group of volunteers under the initiative of the Blender Foundation and released for free downloads. Digital technology, along with Free Software, is democratizing the media by virtually converting every home into a digital media production house. It's also fostering a free culture where people build and share music, animation and other forms of media. Free software media tools like Ardour (http://ardour.org) and Blender are becoming popular among creative artists. Personalities like Gilberto Gil (Former Culture Minister of Brazil, and a musician) have been promoting free software and the free culture among artists. FREE SOFTWARE - REVOLUTION IN FILM MAKING - Workshop on free software for film making will cover 1) Impact of digital technology in cinema 2) Inevitability of technology for the low budget/zero budget film makers 3) Free software - A comparison 4) Free software - explosion in film making Speaker for the session is: Anil Nair CEO Cinesoft systems and services Pvt Ltd Technical Director of Malayalam Movie "Moonnamathoral" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
