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[gimp-web/gimp-web-static] Ported a bunch of old news items

commit 8a7d9e01dd687897bbdb8a55979716a8ad9fd805
Author: Pat David <patdavid gmail com>
Date:   Wed Aug 19 16:46:18 2015 -0500

    Ported a bunch of old news items

 .../2014-11-19 GIMP Magazine Issue 6 released.md   |    8 ++++
 .../news/2014-12-26 The Price of Being Popular.md  |   10 +++++
 content/news/2015-01-05 GIMP and GEGL in 2014.md   |   15 ++++++++
 content/news/2015-01-22 gimpguru.org RIP.md        |   10 +++++
 .../news/2015-02-27 Libre Graphics Meeting 2015.md |   10 +++++
 content/news/2015-05-05 ZeMarmot.md                |   10 +++++
 content/news/2015-05-27 Sourceforge.md             |   17 +++++++++
 .../news/2015-06-01 GIMP Official Statement SF.md  |   37 ++++++++++++++++++++
 content/news/2015-06-04 GEGL BABL.md               |   21 +++++++++++
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diff --git a/content/news/2014-11-19 GIMP Magazine Issue 6 released.md b/content/news/2014-11-19 GIMP 
Magazine Issue 6 released.md
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+Title: GIMP Magazine Issue #6 Released
+Date: 2014-11-19
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+
+The newly released issue #6 of GIMP Magazine features a "Using GIMP for portrait and fashion photography" 
master class by Aaron Tyree who uses GIMP professionally, and a gallery of other artworks and photos made or 
processed with GIMP.
+
+The team is planning to switch to monthly releases, however they need your support to cover the costs of 
publishing a free magazine. You can sponsor the project at [Patreon](http://www.patreon.com/gimpmagazine) or 
visit the magazine's [gift shop](http://gimpmagazine.org/giftshop) to make a donation.
diff --git a/content/news/2014-12-26 The Price of Being Popular.md b/content/news/2014-12-26 The Price of 
Being Popular.md
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+Title: The Price of Being Popular
+Date: 2014-12-26
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+
+When software is popular, then there are elements out there who seek to profit from it by less ethical 
means. Installer packages with added spyware, adware or even malware are apparently part of the (Windows) 
user experience these days.
+
+GIMP is being attacked in that manner as well, In order to keep safe, [get GIMP from our own downloads 
pages](/downloads/) or the sites we link to, and be very cautious when going elsewhere.
+
+One victim of this is GIMPshop - started as a fork of GIMP to add UI terms that are more familiar to users 
of Adobe Photoshop, it is nowadays used to load third-party software onto the unwary user's system. 
Thankfully, the original author is not to blame, as this operation is run by someone else.
diff --git a/content/news/2015-01-05 GIMP and GEGL in 2014.md b/content/news/2015-01-05 GIMP and GEGL in 
2014.md
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+Title: GIMP and GEGL in 2014
+Date: 2015-01-05
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+Summary: In 2014, we spent most of the time on improving GIMP's usability and finalizing the GEGL port of 
GIMP to lay the foundation for various advanced features in demand by professionals.
+
+In 2014, we spent most of the time on improving GIMP's usability and finalizing the GEGL port of GIMP to lay 
the foundation for various advanced features in demand by professionals. Some of the 2014 highlights are:
+
+*   Redesigned Blend tool, now you can tweak end points before applying the gradient fill;
+*   Improved foreground selection tool that handles fine details like hair;
+*   Finer control over painting dynamics;
+*   Up to 64bit per color channel processing;
+*   Improved file formats support, including 32bit TIFF loading/saving.
+
+A far more detailed report has been posted to project's [mailing 
lists](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2015-January/msg00012.html).
diff --git a/content/news/2015-01-22 gimpguru.org RIP.md b/content/news/2015-01-22 gimpguru.org RIP.md
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+Title: gimpguru.org - R.I.P.
+Date: 2015-01-22
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+
+We noticed that gimpguru.org, once the host of GIMP tutorials (some of which are also present in our 
[Tutorials section](/tutorials)) has been abandoned by its original owner and is redirecting visitors to some 
very suspicious downloads - don't go there.
+
+We have removed all links pointing there from the tutorials (please do tell if we missed one), and caution 
everyone to only consider links on our own [downloads page](/downloads/) and the sites linked from there.
+
+Special announcement for domain owners: if you own a domain with *gimp* in its name and host a forum or 
something else, and don't feel like you want to continue to do so or renew it some day, please [approach 
us](/mail_lists.html) - we'd rather take it over ourselves and have it point to www.gimp.org than see it 
being abused like that.
diff --git a/content/news/2015-02-27 Libre Graphics Meeting 2015.md b/content/news/2015-02-27 Libre Graphics 
Meeting 2015.md
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+Title: Libre Graphics Meeting 2015
+Date: 2015-02-27
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+
+2 months to go till <a href="">Libre Graphics Meeting 2015</a> happens in Toronto, Canada. This conference 
is a great place to meet the people who make and use free and open source graphics software.
+
+Participation is gratis and open to all. Every year, donations from supporters make it possible for LGM to 
subsidize the travel costs of participants:
+
+[![Click here to lend your support to: Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 - Toronto, Canada and make a donation at 
pledgie.com !](https://pledgie.com/campaigns/28155.png?skin_name=chrome)](https://pledgie.com/campaigns/28155)
diff --git a/content/news/2015-05-05 ZeMarmot.md b/content/news/2015-05-05 ZeMarmot.md
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+Title: ZeMarmot, Libre Movie to be Made with GIMP, Blender, Ardour
+Date: 2015-05-05
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+
+During Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 last week in Toronto our very own Jehan Pagès announced a new open 
animated movie project, [ZeMarmot](http://film.zemarmot.net/en/). It's a road movie with a marmot as 
protagonist.
+
+The team will be using just free/libre applications for the production: GIMP, 
[Blender](http://www.blender.org/), [Ardour](http://ardour.org), and a few others. Jehan will also resume his 
work on animation features in GIMP, extend OpenRaster file format to support animation, and improve Blender's 
non-linear video editor as much as he can.
+
+You can [support the 
campaign](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zemarmot-libre-movie-made-with-free-software/) at IndieGoGo.
diff --git a/content/news/2015-05-27 Sourceforge.md b/content/news/2015-05-27 Sourceforge.md
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+Title: SourceForge, What the...?
+Date: 2015-05-27
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+
+Some of you might remember that in November 2013, [we abandoned 
SourceForge](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/08/gimp_dumps_sourceforge_over_dodgy_ads_and_installer/) 
(SF) as the primary download site for the GIMP installers for Windows platforms and moved the files to our 
own download server, [download.gimp.org](http://download.gimp.org)
+
+The tons of links on the web pointing to the former site made keeping the installers there as well a 
necessity, though, and since SF claimed that our outrage over their "installer with benefits" was based on a 
[misunderstanding](https://sourceforge.net/blog/advertising-bundling-community-and-criticism/), this seemed 
to be a low-risk approach.
+
+However we are [receiving 
reports](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May/msg00097.html) that people who get 
there by chance receive small installers that include additional software. And it's no clicks on those 'big 
green download arrow' ads this time, we've tried ourselves. SF has not responded to our inquiry yet, and we 
found that the maintainer of the GIMP for Windows installers is locked out of that SF project now.
+
+**Update:**  
+ And now SF is launching an attempt at [damage 
control](https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/).
+
+Ars Technica has a [nice 
summary](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/),
 with [insightful 
comments](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware/?comments=1).
+
+Please go to our own [downloads page](/downloads/ "... it adjusts to your platform") to get the GIMP for 
Windows installers.
diff --git a/content/news/2015-06-01 GIMP Official Statement SF.md b/content/news/2015-06-01 GIMP Official 
Statement SF.md
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+Title: GIMP Project's Official Statement on SourceForge's Actions
+Date: 2015-05-27
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+
+
+This is the GIMP project's official statement on [SourceForge's 
actions](http://web.archive.org/web/20150529094757/https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/)
 in regard to "abandoned" projects on their service.  
+ It is archived in the [GIMP Developer mailing list 
archive](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May/msg00144.html).
+
+We are fully aware that since their launch in 1999, SourceForge had been providing a valuable service to the 
Free Software community and that this service may still be relevant to some Free and Open Source Software 
projects today.
+
+The GIMP project did benefit from this service: SourceForge was the place to download the Windows installer 
for GIMP for many years and we appreciate it as an important part of GIMP history.
+
+When it comes to distributing GIMP, our goal is to make it as easy as possible for users to install GIMP.  
+ We do not want our users having to dodge any "offers" or to worry about possibly installing malware in the 
process.
+
+With our shared history, it was painful to watch the invasion of the big green "Download" button ads 
appearing on the SourceForge site. Our decision to move the Windows installers away from SourceForge in 2013 
was a direct result of how its service degraded in this respect.
+
+The situation became worse recently when SourceForge started to wrap its downloader/installer around the 
GIMP project binaries. That SourceForge installer put other software apart from GIMP on our users' systems. 
This was done without our knowledge and permission, and we would never have permitted it. It was done in 
spite of the following [promise made by SourceForge in November 
2013](http://web.archive.org/web/20131115022447/http://sourceforge.net/blog/advertising-bundling-community-and-criticism/):
+
+> <q>we want to reassure you that we will NEVER bundle offers with any project without the developers 
consent.</q> (emphasis in original)
+
+To us, this firmly places SourceForge among the dodgy crowd of download sites.  
+ SourceForge are abusing the trust that we and our users had put into their service in the past.
+
+We don't believe that this is a fixable situation.  
+ Even if they promise to adhere to the set of guidelines outlined below, these promises are likely to become 
worthless with any upcoming management change at SourceForge.
+
+However, if SourceForge's current management are willing to collaborate with us on these matters, then there 
might be a reduction in the damage and feeling of betrayal among the Free and Open Source Software 
communities.
+
+An acceptable approach would be to provide a method for ***any*** project to cease hosting at any 
SourceForge site if desired, including the ability to:
+
+*   completely remove the project and URLs permanently, and not allow any other projects to take its place
+*   remove any hosted files from the service, and not maintain mirrors serving installers or files differing 
from those provided by the project or wrap those in any way
+*   provide permanent HTTP redirects (301) to any other location as desired by the project
+
+This is not unreasonable to expect from a service that purports to support the free software community.
diff --git a/content/news/2015-06-04 GEGL BABL.md b/content/news/2015-06-04 GEGL BABL.md
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+Title: GEGL 0.3.0, babl 0.1.2 Released
+Date: 2015-06-04
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber Gimp
+
+
+We have just released new versions of [GEGL](http://gegl.org/) and [babl](http://gegl.org/babl/), the 
libraries that take all the heavy lifting for color space conversion and image processing in GIMP. Both 
releases are considered a pre-requisite for doing a first 2.9 (development series) GIMP release.
+
+The babl library got floating point conversions optimized. Additionally, HSV and HSL color models were 
added, CIE LAB conversions were fixed.
+
+Most exciting improvements, however, are in the new GEGL release. A total of 71 new image processing 
operations were added: mostly these are ports of existing GIMP filters. Some of the existing operations were 
improved, and some got OpenCL versions.
+
+Another focus of this release was performance: OpenCL support is now enabled by default when detected, 
there's experimental multithreading support (use GEGL_THREADS=<number of threads> environment variable) and 
experimental mipmap rendering (use GEGL_MIPMAP_RENDERING=true environment variable). There's also a new 
default tile backend that writes to disk in a separate thread.
+
+[The Grid](https://thegrid.io/) project contributed several major improvements: support for using URIs in 
image loaders and the loading of [meta-operations in JSON](http://www.jonnor.com/2015/01/imgflo-0-3/), 
created with imgflo's online graph editor.
+
+GEGL's website now features a [gallery](http://gegl.org/operations.html#GEGL%20operations) of available 
operations and an [API browser](http://gegl.org/operations.html#Gegl).
+
+This release of GEGL was brought to you through contributions from 92 people. Respective source code 
downloads are available on gimp.org: [babl 0.1.2](http://download.gimp.org/pub/babl/0.1/), [GEGL 
0.3.0](http://download.gimp.org/pub/gegl/0.3/).
+
+There is still a lot of work to be done. If you are interested to contribute ports of GIMP filters to GEGL 
or entirely new GEGL operations, please visit [our 
wiki](http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Porting_filters_to_GEGL) and join #gegl on irc.gimp.net.
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