Ars nova. Digital art

"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." Linus Torvalds

New art. The club of learning open source graphic applications.

Club aim: learn how to work with open graphic applications and make manuals in belarusian for self-development.
Today if to ask a designer, a photographer or an artist about applications that they use for editing photos, pictures, vectors or for drawing, lots of them will answer that they use Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw.
These applications are a private property of corporations, they are good enough, but, firstly, they monopolise the market that make no choice for the user, secondly, not everybody can pay for the license.
And not a lot of people know that there are also open source analogue for that applications as Gimp and InkScape.

Club's target audience: people who are interested in new technologies and like experiments (arists, photographers, designers and so on).

What is going to be?
In the first season it will be 12 meetups: 6 for Gimp, 5 - for InkScape, 1 - common meetup.
Meetups is hold every Wednesday, the first meeting - on February, 18 at 19.00, on Falanster's base.
Learning process is build on free principle - knowledge sharing: everybody who wants can prepare the topic. By default we are covering basic skills of using Gimp and InkScape.

We will learn basic skills of work with:

forms, filters, layers, animation - in Gimp,
vectors, forms and its properties, tracing, fonts - in InkScape.

Read the agenda of all meetups (in belarusian).

Topic of the first season: help Wikification project to create a manual how to edit Wikipedia, marked up a brochure and draw a cover.

Outcomes and changes
During some meetups after the the first season of club will be finished we will take stock and make manuals of each learning meetup in belarusian language. After that we will share manuals under Creative Commons licenses.

Artists, photographers, designers, who will finish learning the club will: