Hi all, I heard from a contact of mine, Susan Spencer, that her open source clothing pattern-making project Valentina (http://valentinaproject.bitbucket.org/) started a fundraiser with OpenFunding's beta test of OpenFunding's fundraising platform (http://funding.openinitiative.com/).
The Valentina funding page: http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1981/ About Valentina: "Valentina is a unique tool for creating clothing patterns. It combines traditional patternmaking methods with new design capabilities and an easy-to-use interface to enable maximum user creativity. The new economy of ethical and sustainable fashion needs open source tools that encourage creativity and enable transparent and ethical workflows. Valentina uses open data formats which are easily exchanged between designers and garment producers, and implements design features in an easy-to-use intuitive GUI using the latest design technologies. The intended user for Valentina includes professional patternmakers, home sewists, cosplay enthusiasts, historical re-enacters and concept artists. The Valentina team is multi-cultural and is composed of persons from Ukraine, Germany, and US. All interested persons are invited to contribute to documentation, beta-testing the program, beta-testing patterns, and writing code. The team believes in good documentation and open and transparent community involvement. Valentina has support for multiple languages, and is available for Windows, MAC and Linux." She said, "It would help us if some technical journals would run an article about Valentina between now and the end of our fundraiser September 15." I'm on vacation for the next 2 weeks, so there's no way I can do an article any time soon. But these are 2 cool open source projects, so hopefully someone can get a good story out of this. Her contact info is: Susan Spencer Valentina Community Manager www.valentina-project.org 256-508-2440 @tusuzu Best regards, Rikki Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends _______________________________________________ Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Osdc-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list
