There is a nice article about photography and Open Source over at the blog of worldlabel.com. It covers a lot of programs and I think Nathan Willis missed nothing.
Other news: I am just starting to produce the next episode, the first from Berlin. 
Jim sent me a screenshot of GIMP 2.7 in single window mode. Looks good and I am going to try it soon. Click on the image for a 100% view.
I got also a video about this, but haven’t been able to look at it up to now. We had “an unpleasantness” in the forum last week. All the sleuthing around in the log files and communicating has cost me at least 8 hours last week (I could/would have made a full blown show in that time) and this week I have to finish grades. So you will have to wait for the Weekend.
I now know in which school I will be working after the summer. It is in Berlin Neukölln-Britz. I want to live a bit more north, in Kreuzberg or “Kreuzkölln”. And now I am really starting to look for a flat there to rent.
I now have found a way to encode the video that is supposed to run on Apple products and other mobile devices. Please tell me which version to use in the future.
Please use the comments and vote in the poll on the sidebar if you are interested in a version for mobile devices.
I got a nice mail from Prime (who has a photoblog) pointing me to a magazine in India about Open Source. They have a companion DVD – and this time it is filled with the first 100 epsidoes of Meet the GIMP!
He has just put a copy into the mail (the old one, with envelopes and stamps and so on) and I’ll definitely hang that on my wall. (EDIT: It has arrived on May 21, cool! The magazine is really good too.)
In other news I have survived the class trip and will look into a YAG laser in an hour. If my eye doctor gets it right, it will improve my vision significantly by burning away some fibrosis. (EDIT 2 hours later: I am back, all went well. Disappointingly uneventful, just looking into a scope and seeing some little flashes. Improvement already visible.) And then a new show will be produced tomorrow.
#135 is just going up to the server and I have some time to kill. 
I got several questions about the mobile version of the show. I don’t know which encoding to choose from the menus at Handbrake and would love to have a command line option for that. Here help is needed.
Is Ogg Theora (the free video format) an option for the show? Who can not decode it? Should I switch to it? Add it as an option?
Torrent questions came up too. I need some help with setting this up properly.
Comments to all topics very welcome!
Stealing the image from LuX’s posting in the forum I wish some happy days for you all. Take care of yourself and the world around you.
I want to point to an instructional video on Linux for Designers. I don’t know if this was done with Blender, but it must have taken a lot of the time since last winter to make. And never trust your tree decoration….
I think there will be a video still in 2009, but at the moment I am only lazy.
Jesús David Navarro has made a DVD torrent from the first 100 episodes of Meet the GIMP. The sites language is Spanish but the button below the entry with the wave on it downloads the torrent file.
If you have a torrent client running and some disk space and upstream traffic to share – please put this on to your machine. Just now it is terribly slow, but only one machine seeding.
And if you understand Spanish – have a look at the other things on that page, it looks like a really good collection of free educational material about all things graphics. Starting with PDF manuals and not ending with video podcasts.
Yesterday the site was very slow again. Restarting the web server solved the problem for some minutes – then it went down again. While watching the logs with tail -f I noticed a IP addess which requested a lot of different video files at the same time. I denied access to that address and the server came back up to it’s original speed in moments.
IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD A LOT OF VIDEOS, PLEASE, DO IT IN A SEQUENCE AND NOT PARALLEL AT THE SAME TIME!
I have lifted the ban on that IP (59.92.1xx.x – it’s in India and on a big pipe) but will keep an eye on the server performance and have the axe ready.
I’ll ask Marcin to limit the amount of connections for a single IP, then the problem should be gone.
UPDATE: Blocking the bot worked. And if you want to have a look at the log…. Whow!
Download the Video! (100.0 MB, 52:38)
Download the Video for iPods etc (61.9 MB, 52:38)
Download the Torrent! (likely broken)
Download the Companion File!
This week you’ll get both hosts of the show in one package. Philippe (southern France) and I (northern Germany) discuss the results of the Double Book Challenge in the “From Scratch” section. We use Skype and the connection is not as good as we were used to it between Chile and Germany. So expect some funny noises added to the accents.
At the end of the show we both come up with a random number and calculate in a highly scientific way who wins the two books. I’ll give you all a chance to find out in the video if you have won and contact the winners later next week. And IF YOU have won, send me your contact data so that I can forward them to APRESS, who sponsor the prizes.
All the images we talked about are in the companion file.
I am a bit under the weather and snowed in with work. So there will be no show this week.
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