[vox-announce] June & July Linux Users' Group of Davis meetings: Tux Paint, Post-Processing HDR Panoramas and Social Gatherings

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The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD), will be holding the following
meetings in June and July:

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  When:  Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm
  What:  Social Gathering
  Where: Crepeville Restaurant, 330 3rd Street in Davis

    http://www.lugod.org/meeting/

  Join us for a social gathering over dinner.  Wireless Internet
  access is available, so feel free to bring a laptop!

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  When:  Monday, June 18th, 2007 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm
  What:  "Tux Paint, Again"
  Where: Davis Public Library, 315 East 14th Street in Davis

    http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/#2007.06.18

  Tux Paint is an Open Source paint program for young children.
  Bill Kendrick, lead developer and project maintainer, will discuss the
  technical side of recent improvements to the application, including
  Scalable Vector Graphics clipart support and input methods for
  languages such as Japanese and Korean.

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  When:  Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm
  What:  Social Gathering
  Where: Crepeville Restaurant, 330 3rd Street in Davis

    http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/#2007.07.03

  Join us for a social gathering over dinner.  Wireless Internet
  access is available, so feel free to bring a laptop!

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  When:  Monday, July 16th, 2007 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm
  What:  "Post-Processing HDR Panoramas Using Open Source Tools"
  Where: (Location To Be Announced)

    http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/#2007.07.16

  This talk will present Open Source tools that can be used to
  post-process High Dynamic Range (HDR) photographs and panoroamas.

  This may include (depending on what works best at the time of the talk):

    * Hugin (panorama photo stitcher),
    * PFSTools (read, write, manipulate and view HDR images),
    * PFScalibration (photometric calibration of HDR and LDR cameras),
    * PFSTmo (tone mapping operators), and
    * dcraw (decodes Raw, unprocessed CCD data files). 

  About the Speaker:

    Steve is "a Geek of Many Things," currenly employed as a
    consultant for Verisign.

    Some of Steve's samples are at: http://www.wormley.com/pano/
    (but may have been processed using tools other than those listed above).

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About LUGOD:

  The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
  dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
  and Free Software.

  LUGOD holds regular meetings with guest speakers in Davis, California,
  as well as other events in Davis and the greater Sacramento region.
  Events are always free and open to the public.

  Please visit our website for more details:  http://www.lugod.org/


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Bill Kendrick
pr at lugod.org
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
http://www.lugod.org/
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