[svlug] Any other photo geeks?

[Bill Ward]

Digging up an old thread...

On Dec 11, 2007 4:22 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2007 4:11 PM, Sridhar Iyer <iyer.sridhar.v at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks Paul and Larry for your inputs, I have created a group for SVLUG
> > photographers on flickr:
> > http://www.flickr.com/groups/tuxographers/
> > (the name is tacky.. but that was what I could think of :P)
> >
>
> Thanks for this!  We are looking for photographers to submit photos of
> FOSS-related people and activities, and we will post them here at the
> Digital Tipping Point photocollection, and we will include some of them in
> the Digital Tipping Point film as pan and zoom shots
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/digitaltippingpoint/
>
> We are using Picasa because Flickr, which much larger, is a Yahoo property
> and we switched to Picasa when rumors of a Microsoft buyout of Yahoo
> started.  We just can't have any "assets" (for lack of a better word) on a
> Microsoft property.

Well, looks like you may've been right about this... I was unaware of
it until last week when the offer came out; I hadn't read this thread
obviously, but here you are almost two months beforehand saying it.

I just installed Picasa on my Windows laptop, and will plan to do the
same on my Linux box at home soon.  I don't know much about Picasa
though.  Aren't there any open source (preferably Gnome) photo
management tools that are any good?  And preferably that handle the
Panasonic .RAW format which my FZ50 uses?

> We are releasing all of our video and photos under a Creative Commons
> Attribute-ShareAlike license, and so we are hoping to get photos under that
> same license.  We want to allow people to make commercial use of our video
> and photos, because our goal is to maximize the visibility of FOSS for
> newbies.

Nearly all my Flickr photos are thusly licensed, including my Picnix
photos from years past before SVLUG/Sbay politics made me lose
interest in attending (and helping organize) them.