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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Arun M <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
