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Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) June, 2019
Report written by our friend Manetta Berends from Varia

It was a last minute decision to join this year’s LGM. Until the very last moment we weren’t sure if we could make it. In the end Stéphanie, Ludi, Pierre and I (Manetta) joined on the Friday and followed …
OSM to SVG

Extracting OSM data for SVG use.

I've been meaning to document my OSM to SVG process for a while now, I just had to run the process again recently, so here was a new chance to take screenshots along the way. The basic idea is to process a portion of …
Balsa modes d'emploi
Septième saison associés avec le Théatre de la Balsamine! Et pour celle-ci, sous le signe obligé mais d'une certaine jouissance, l'arte povera numérique d'OSP en auteur visuel et à l'écriture de modes d'emploi. Déplier une table pliante, bricoler un piège à mouche, tenir les voiles pendant la tempête, nouer ses …

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work
balsamine.www

Fannyexpressed

— Update home.md

Friday, 3rd April 2020 - 19:50

Fannyuttered

— Update home.md

Friday, 3rd April 2020 - 19:48

Fannyrevealed

— Update home.md

Friday, 3rd April 2020 - 18:55

Fannyblabbed

— Update home.md

Friday, 3rd April 2020 - 18:51

Fannyemited

— Update pratique.md

Friday, 3rd April 2020 - 18:47

tools
gitlabculture

Stephanie Vilayphioulet out

— Front-end changes.

Monday, 30th March 2020 - 17:00

Stephanie Vilayphiouverbalized

— Format date (in js) in the blob history

Monday, 30th March 2020 - 15:37

Stephanie Vilayphiouclaimed

— Managing date formatting for commit lists and last_activity_at and
created_at (the latter two were already date objects)

Monday, 30th March 2020 - 15:29

Stephanie Vilayphioulet on

— Added Jinja filter "datetime" to format dates in templates.

Usage:
{{ committed_date|datetime("%d/%m/%Y, %H:%M") }}

Monday, 30th March 2020 - 15:20

Gijs de Heijuttered

— A first version with cache invalidation.

Friday, 27th March 2020 - 15:31

tools
ether2html

pierrehwhistled

— Update README.md

Friday, 27th March 2020 - 23:55

svilayphiouironized

— Update README.md

Monday, 3rd February 2020 - 11:55

svilayphiouverbalized

— Update README.md

Monday, 3rd February 2020 - 11:54

pierrehconfessed

— Delete book-screengrab.png

Monday, 3rd February 2020 - 08:52

pierrehadmitted

— Merge branch 'master' of gitlab.constantvzw.org:osp/tools.ether2html

Monday, 3rd February 2020 - 08:49

work
colorlab

Maria Botosaid

— Update articlewaste.md

Monday, 16th March 2020 - 11:40

Maria Botorevealed

— Update articlewaste.md

Monday, 16th March 2020 - 11:39

Maria Botorendered

— Update projectweek2019.md

Monday, 16th March 2020 - 11:33

Maria Botolet on

— Update luca.md

Monday, 16th March 2020 - 11:32

Maria Botoconfessed

— Add new file

Monday, 16th March 2020 - 11:30

tools
pdfutils

Ali Raylet out

— Merge branch 'master' of gitlab.constantvzw.org:osp/tools.pdfutils

Friday, 13th March 2020 - 12:20

alexandrepublished

— Update README.md

Friday, 13th March 2020 - 11:54

Ali Rayspilled the beans

— Converting a PDF from RGB to CMYK (overprint or not) now works!

Based on this StackOverflow post: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35596346/ghostscript-convert-pdf-into-cmyk-preserving-pure-black-for-text>

Created an ICC profile for images (RGB) and another one for text and
graphics (black) zith the tool collink (from ArgyllCMS)

The new icc profiles are on the repo and how to address them is in the
file `control.txt`.

Friday, 13th March 2020 - 12:18

alexandrecomitted

— Replacing "convert" with "magick" for better compatibility with macos and windows versions of image magick.

Friday, 13th March 2020 - 11:37

alexandrebabbled out

— Update README.md

Friday, 13th March 2020 - 11:36

work
balsamine.2019-2020

Sarah Magnancomitted

— serie flyer et poster backstage, b4summer et xxtime

Tuesday, 18th February 2020 - 16:37

Femkestated

— updated

Tuesday, 26th November 2019 - 17:59

Sarah Magnansaid

— fine tunes flyers and begining of poster

Tuesday, 26th November 2019 - 16:37

Femketweeted

— right margins

Monday, 25th November 2019 - 19:25

Femkeexpressed

— adjusted the spaces in between

Monday, 25th November 2019 - 18:36

work
maintenance-as-architecture

Bernardocomitted

— nfnf

Saturday, 15th February 2020 - 21:22

Bernardodisclosed

— xx

Friday, 14th February 2020 - 16:39

Bernardoargued

— Update office.md

Thursday, 13th February 2020 - 06:11

Bernardocried

— lalala

Thursday, 13th February 2020 - 06:03

Bernardouttered

— Update office.md

Wednesday, 12th February 2020 - 16:25

tools
visualculture

pierrehbrought out

— Update about.html, link added

Tuesday, 28th January 2020 - 00:09

Stephanie Vilayphioutattled

— once again

Monday, 27th January 2020 - 23:51

Stephanie Vilayphiousaid

— fixing markdown parsing

Monday, 27th January 2020 - 23:47

Stephanie Vilayphioutalked

— OSP et le sport: new About page!

Monday, 27th January 2020 - 23:42

Gijs de Heijstated

— Back to loading feed over http.

Saturday, 9th February 2019 - 16:51

Report written by our friend Manetta Berends from Varia

Extracting OSM data for SVG use.

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