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Richmond, CA - Friday, October 18, 2002 - Film Gimp -- a free open source motion picture retouching tool used in Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter and Stuart Little -- has been awarded a grant by Linux Fund, an organization that helps further open source projects through development grants. Accepting the grant is Film Gimp release manager Robin Rowe. "We appreciate the funding and recognition by Linux Fund", says Rowe, "and thank them for taking the lead in providing financial support for the new Film Gimp project".
Linux Fund Executive Director Jerritt Collord says Film Gimp was chosen by the Linux Fund Developer Board because of its significance to the open source movement and the capabilities of its developers. "In addition to the industry-specific functionality, we're excited to support Film Gimp GUI changes that will finally make it more accessible to users accustomed to popular proprietary software", says Collord. The $1,000 grant will be used to make Film Gimp GUI improvements and to add a macro recording/playback capability. Both features have been common requests by Gimp users for years.
The Linux Fund was founded in 1999 to provide a convenient way for the public to help fund open source projects. The Linux Fund uses revenue from an affinity credit card program to provide development grants and scholarships. For more information about this program and the Linux Fund see http://www.linuxfund.org.
Film Gimp was launched in 1998 as a joint project between Hollywood software company Silicon Grail (acquired in 2002 by Apple) and Los Angeles film and television studio Rhythm & Hues. Film Gimp has active open source support from developers at Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures ImageWorks, Industrial Light & Magic, and other studios. The current (fifth) release is 0.5 and runs on Linux and SGI Irix. For more information see http://www.filmgimp.org.
Robin Rowe first became involved with Film Gimp when he wrote an article about it for Linux Journal. Before Rowe joined as release manager, Film Gimp had never had an official release. Potential users were put off by the difficulty of building Film Gimp from CVS. Since Rowe's first release in July 2002, further releases followed rapidly. After Rowe took the lead in moving the project to SourceForge, developers from major studios stepped forward to help.
Robin Rowe is a founding partner in motion picture technology skunkworks MovieEditor.com, and he leads two users groups: LinuxMovies.org and OpenSourceProgrammers.org.
Questions to Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com
510-235-2397
Links
http://www.LinuxFund.org
http://www.FilmGimp.org
http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/
http://www.LinuxJournal.com
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5683
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6148
http://www.MovieEditor.com
http://www.LinuxMovies.org
http://www.OpenSourceProgrammers.org
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