Andy Fitzsimon

Just for the record,  Bulia rocks !

He’s added a tremor control to the calligraphy pen in inkscpae below are some samples

I’ve never worked a day in my life, never had to want for anything and most importantly…

I have a trophy girlfriend!!! Booyah !
No really, I actually dig this girl alot.

Karla and I have almost been together a year now and honestly its been a damn good ride so far.
We make each other laugh, can argue like italians and always sync up so well that I couldn’t imagine a more perfect co-existence with anyone else.

Life rocks

inkscape gimp and scribus

3 apps, one hell of a toolchain.

Arron is bloody hilarious.

I think he’ll end up making a whole album of songs about vectors. The vector is mightier is a great song.

Something new that he’s working on is a call to arms, about the need for vector desktops and all the real world problems they’ll solve.
I’ve tried to contribute a verse about battlers working out in the sun needing to see important machinery icons on their consoles but not reading them because the stylesheet is fixed to look like OSX. a quick edit of his CSS and the high contrast vector desktop saves the day. and his eyes from accidentally pushing that self destruct button or something . hehe we’ll see.
grab the latest cut of this evolving musical marvel.

And to think 3 years from now people will be laughing. I cant believe they didnt have mainstream vector desktops back then….

Is the catchcry of one of the most annoying radiostations here in BrisVegas, AU. But infact we do love brisbane, its a city of fun, friends, great climate and things to do.

We even have the newly appointed DPL. Something that Peter Beattie might not even mention in one of his ‘Smart State’ rants. But we know

The other night two mates of mine decided to throw a party in a really sweet penthouse dead center of Brisbane.

It was a chance to catch our ‘friday beers crew’ out on a saturday night and really enjoy a night with good beer, great friends and have a sweet time just like we do every week. Only this time we’ve got photos.

We’ve just had the Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France. It was awesome.

Lots got achieved , people got pumped up, pixels were pushed, beziers were bent and meshes got made.
I’m very stoaked that a conference containing this much synergy between groups I love to participate was made possible.
Dave and the sponsors have earned some serious street cred with me that I wont soon forget. Thanks guys!

Bdale, Carl, Bryce & JonCruz.  In the background there you can see dave hustling it.

Xara LX is going to change the landscape for open source vector compositing and possibly the entire open source desktop if they’re willing *nudge nudge.
Cedric  Gemy is such a rad dude in person.

Meeting JonCruz, ReJon and Bryce makes me wish we did keysigning. So many of us have now met in person that being obsessive compulsive about security almost seems feasable.
Look at JonCruz as he watches Marti’s LCMS talk. Thats inspiration to implement colourmanagement in inkscape brewing.
And we’re well on the way now.

I went out to dinner with the GIMP gang on my last night in Lyon and we tore up the town. Libre style.

Obligatory Koala shot.  Lyon is a beautiful city. The architecture is completely different to anything i’ve grown up with.  Oh, if you want the authentic Lyon experience book to stay at the Hotel Iris, its near the Hotel De Ville subway stop and only $50 euros per night built in an old convent.
Oh yeah,  and the following week I got to do some important ‘research’ in paris visiting galleries that I’d only read about.  Aren’t open source conferences awesome?!!