GIMP Developer Conferences

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Developer meetings

Across the years, GIMP and GEGL developers from all over the World have gathered at multiple occasions.

Called historically as “GIMP Developers Conference”, abbreviated GIMPCon, this event continued at the Libre Graphics Meeting for years, starting in 2006, where we also exchanged with developers of other graphics FLOSS. These are where we get together and discuss the future development, hack on GIMP, meet GIMP users…

A new event called “Wilber Week” was born a few years ago, where we meet just with GIMP developers in a more quiet atmosphere (no conferences, no big talks…).

Libre Graphics Meeting 2024, May 9 - May 11, Rennes, France (LGM page).
Wilber Week 2023, May 19-28, Amsterdam
Libre Graphics Meeting 2019, May 29 - June 2, Saarbrücken, Germany (LGM page). No minutes available.
Libre Graphics Meeting 2018, April 26-30, Seville, Spain (announcement, LGM page). No minutes available.
Libre Graphics Meeting 2017, April 20-23, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (LGM page). No minutes available.
Wilber Week 2017, January 27 - February 5, El Bruc, near Barcelona, Spain (announcement, LGM page). No minutes available.
Libre Graphics Meeting 2016, April 15-18, University of Westminster, in London, UK (announcement, LGM page). No minutes available.
Libre Graphics Meeting 2015, April 29 - May 2, Toronto, Canada (announcement, LGM page). No minutes available.
Libre Graphics Meeting 2014, April 2-5, Leipzig, Germany
Libre Graphics Meeting 2013, April 10-13, Madrid, Spain
Libre Graphics Meeting 2012, May 2-5, Vienna, Austria
Libre Graphics Meeting 2011, May 10-13, Montreal, Canada
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010, May 27-30, Brussels, Belgium
Libre Graphics Meeting 2009, May 6-9, Montreal, Canada
Libre Graphics Meeting 2008, May 8-11, Wrocław, Poland
Libre Graphics Meeting 2007, May 4-6, Montreal, Canada
GIMPCon at Libre Graphics Meeting 2006, March 17-18-19 in Lyon, France
GIMP meeting at GUADEC 2005, May 28-29-30-31 in Stuttgart, Germany
GIMPCon 2004, June 28-29-30 in Kristiansand, Norway
GIMPCon 2003, August 7-8-9-10 in Berlin, Germany
GIMPCon 2000, June 2-3-4 in Berlin, Germany

Solo conferences

GIMP team members have been showing their work at various other events, even though it was not always including a meetup with many project members. Some of these events are:

Conference “Processing Photographs with GIMP” by Pat David - Creative Freedom Summit 2023
Conference “GIMP et ZeMarmot” (in French) by Aryeom and Jehan - Fabrique Collective de la Culture du libre in Vandœuvre - 2022-11-04
Libre Graphics Meeting 2020, May 27-29, online, with a remote workshop on retouching basics by Aryeom and Jehan (program)
Scale 16x 2018, March 8-11, Pasadenia, California (USA), with a conference by Patrick David (announcement)
GUADEC 2016, August 12-14, with Aryeom and Jehan presenting ZeMarmot project

Historical developer meetings on IRC

Finally some developers meeting happened online. A first attempt started with bi-weekly IRC meetings in 2011 (arranged by LightningIsMyName, once in every two weeks, on Monday at 10:00 PM, Central Europe Timezone (usually, CET = GMT+1), with a mail sent to the mailing list before each meeting to discuss the agenda, and after every meeting with a link to the meeting page). This process ended but the logs are still available for logging history:

Nowadays more informal meetings are organized on video-conference tools such as Jitsi and more recently Big Blue Button, organized by Aryeom and Jehan. A few such meetings happened already in 2020, 2021 and 2022. So far these events are not logged.