kishorebhargava

You can never keep all of the people happy all of the time! And when it comes to communities its a nightmare. A few days ago, Team FOSS.IN/2007 released some fabulous posters in order to help with the promotion of the event. The posters are essentially the work of Hari who has been doing the artwork for FOSS.IN for the past few years and absolutely excelling at it. He did have some help from a few photographers to get the photos but he manages to change them magically into these wonderful posters.

Would you believe the amount of negativity that is floating around these posters, starting with “…were these created using FOSS tools or not?” and “…why have you only got developers?” and “these only talk about the presenters, whats in it for the audience/participants” the list just seems to go on and on.

I am not even going to attempt to answer any of these questions, all I’d like to say is that in the past few years that I have seen Hari working with graphic tools, I have seen a conscious effort to move from proprietary software tools to FOSS tools. He does sometimes, use a few filters and effects that he can’t as yet get with the FOSS tools, but by and large he sticks with FOSS. His laptop runs only Ubuntu the last time I saw it.

So for anyone wanting to criticise the posters, please think again. They are great works of art and the artist is doing the best he can to use FOSS tools to create these works. And after all that, he also releases the works under a Creative Commons license. What else do you want?

Anyways, here’s a sample of the work:

Cheers…Kishore
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