Playing with Spiros and Path Effects by Andy Fitz

Creating a Coffee Cup using inkscape by Peter Anglea

Hoult has been first choice since Tony Mowbray took over as manager in October but Pascal Zuberbuhler will deputise against Wolves in Sunday's FA Cup tie.

"Every club has its own disciplinary codes. The club will make a judgement in the next week," said Mowbray.

"After the investigation, we will make a decision. I would suggest that it will be after the game with Wolves."

Hoult joined the Baggies from Portsmouth in 2001 and quickly became a fan favourite, setting a new club record for the most clean sheets in a season.

Mowbray refused to be drawn on Hoult's future at the club.

"Has he a future? Let's wait and see. I don't want to pre-judge anything," he said.

"Russell dealt with the situation in a very professional manner. He was told what was happening and accepted it. There were no tantrums."

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The creative commons australia is hosting the next ccSalon au at the state library of queensland.the followinf is an excerpt from the ccau invite:

creative commons australia (CCau) invites you to the second ccSalon, a showcase of the creative commons in australia.

the ccSalon is a public exhibition/performance/expo of how artists are using creative commons licences and material worldwide. the ccau event features creative commons licensed material by a range of australian artists, including a CC Film and Video showcase and an photo exhibition drawn from Powerhouse Museum, Sydney's Photo of the Day series. Then get into the groove with music by Sydney performer, Yunyu and Andrew Garton's Terminal Quartet.

ccSalon is a public event.

for more information and the program of events for the eveing,  check out the ccau website.

the photos used in this flyer are from Powerhouse Museum, Sydney's Photo of the Day series on flickr.

digg fedora 9 here!!!

Be sure to check it out and support the growing number of artists using FOSS to create stunning works!

Make sure you digg the release of inkscape 0.46 

Following is a blurb from the inkscape release announcement:

The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to editing PDF documents.

Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.

Inkscape can be downloaded for free from the inkscape website:

http://inkscape.org/

ScislaC (an inkscape developer and artist) will also be presenting 4 one hour inkscape classes at SCaLE (two beginner and two advanced.) No doubt he will showcase some of the upcoming features in inkscape 0.46, like Live Path Effects, Filters, 3D Box Tool, the Paint Bucket tool and the Tweak tool.

For more information about the 0.46 About screen contest, guidelines and how to enter, view the contest page at deviantArt. Ted from Inkscape hosts the Museum of Sodipodi and Inkscape About Screens if you are looking for some inspiration for your splashscreen ideas.

It is great to see companies utilising the potential of User Contributed open media, and helping to distribute our awesome clipart to more and more end users. Following is an excerpt from their press release:

The new clip art library offers more than 1300 items that are accessed via a special clip art browser. The clip art is tagged with keywords that can be searched using the built-in Spotlight module. The clip art files come from the Open Clip Art Library, an archive of more than 7000 user-contributed images that can be freely used. Users can download additional artwork from the Open Clip Art Library and access it via DiscLabel's clip art browser. For more information about the Open Clip Art Library project, visit http://www.openclipart.org.

lion with sword

sourced by

JohnnyAutomatic

Johnny is the #1 contributor to the artwork in the open clipart library. To date, he has contributed 1260+ cliparts to the library. Thanks! JohnnyAutomatic!

At the time of writing, JohnnyAutomatic had uploaded 519 pieces of clipart. (view the stats page). An example of JohnnyAutomatic's work (the Toy Robot) can be seen to the left.

The majority of JohnnyAutomatic's Uploads are taken from external archives of public domain clipart (like the US Patents Image Archive). He manually searches through these vast online archives, converts them to SVG and tweaks them sometimes to make them more usable.

If you are interested in helping the open clip art library by uploading images from external sources, there is a page on the wiki that lists some places to start, and some places where we have already started this process.