Inkscape: free your vectors

Donna Benjamin

on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:30 - 11:30 in room Room 3

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Inkscape: Free your vectors

Inkscape is a free and open source vector graphic editor. Are you still using proprietary tools to bend beziers? Inkscape is a great tool for rapid prototyping high fidelity user interface design. Come along and find the fast track on the inside of the learning curve. Free your vector graphics, bring freedom to your desktop design toolkit.

This is a hands on session. Bring your laptop, load it with Inkscape, get the dev version if you dare. We'll zip through the basics and then do call and response for common vector tasks, and see how we might go about building and transferring skills.

All delegates attending this session must bring and ensure:

Bring your own laptop, and make sure you've downloaded and installed Inkscape. Get it from http://inkscape.org/ or your favourite repo. Dev versions for ubuntu are also available here: http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/

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Donna Benjamin

Executive Director

Creative Contingencies

Donna Benjamin is the Executive Director of Creative Contingencies, an Australian company specialising in Drupal web services, research and event management. Donna was President of Linux Users of Victoria in 2009 and 2010 and a board member of OSIA serving as director for 2006-2008. She was conference director of Australia’s largest free and open source conference, linux.conf.au in Melbourne in 2008.

Donna is a passionate advocate of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solutions for small business and education and is currently writing a book about Inkscape, an open source vector graphic drawing application.

Donna was profiled by Jacinta Richardson, Kathy Reid and Roland Gesthuizen for Ada Lovelace day and featured in Delimiter's Friday Five and Tech Stream's special on Women in Technology on Radio Australia.

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