The weekend on Chemnitzer Linux Tage happened in a very nice atmosphere at the TU campus.

The Oyranos booth had this year lots of place to show ideas on the hot topics like desktop and print colour management. Unfortunately my long planed co exhibitor could not make it to Chemnitz to show openSUSE-medical. We planed to display medical images on a properly setup 30-bit system as is required by the DICOM specification. Sirko Kemter designed one artistic 2 meter banner and helped with the basic design of the other posters, which we used for the new space. The Oyranos posters included some schematic graphics and the usual “Why do we need colour management” style explanations. For the later one I sketched a comparison of three non colour managed monitors showing the same fashion person. The SVG graphics from the open clip art library was colour converted to three real world monitor profiles. It resembles a typical shop over web situation, where colour counts for selection of the right looking goods.

Several visitors allowed me to start the actual SuseStudio created Oyranos LiveCD on their laptops with different success. We used the exhibited measurement devices and a camera target to create custom ICC profiles for use in digikam, Scribus, Inkscape and friends. The LiveCD is still based on openSUSE-11.3 and worked in many but not all cases. I found it impressive how good looked the featured KDE desktop, when the CompICC plug-in launched immediately. Working OpenGL, which is needed for the desktop colour server shader, was still not always available.

The newest openSUSE-11.4 version was demonstrated on the neighboring openSUSE booth. openSUSE-11.4 was released only some days ago. The OBS color_management repository was updated with the help of Stanislav Brabec just some days before to have nearly all packages build for 11.4. Thus Oyranos workes flawless on 11.4 too.

All in all a great weekend with lots of good talks and meeting of old and new friends.