On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote:

> Do we have any resource in gimp for training in banglore?
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "VIGNESH PRABHU" <[email protected]>
> Date: 5 Oct 2011 13:18
> Subject: [ilugb] Looking for experts to help migrate photography studios to
> GIMP
> To: "Free Software Users Group - Bangalore" <[email protected]
> >,
> <[email protected]>, "Ubuntu India Local Community" <
> [email protected]>
>
> Hi friends,
>
> Many of you must have heard about the recent raids by software firms on
> photography studios in Mandya and Mysore districts. Here is a news article
> on the same,
>
> http://www.deccanherald.com/content/190270/beware-using-softwares-licence.html
> .
>
> FSMK, Free Software Movement Karnataka has recently released a press note
> appealing to small scale vendors to try out FOSS alternatives,
> http://www.fsmk.org/node/86
>
> Photography studios associations have contacted us and requested us to
> train
> them on FOSS alternatives. Hence we are looking for GIMP experts who have
> worked extensively on photo editing to talk to few representatives of these
> associations and understand their requirements. If their requirements are
> fulfilled by GIMP, then we can plan for a large scale workshop and help
> them
> migrate.
> So please contact us if you can help us in understanding their requirements
> and migrating them.
>
> If this is not done immediately, then they will be forced to come to some
> agreement with software firms and have to shell out chunk of their profit
> to
> pay for the license fees.
>


I would like to know if there is any progress on this?
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