[SlugBug] [Fwd: [Wylug-announce] Linux at the Movies]

[Bill Best]

                   Sheffield Linux Users Group (ShefLUG)

         Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.

                       Saturday 27th November 2004

      1.30 p.m. for 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. at the  Pennine Lecture 

       Theatre,  Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard 

       Street, Sheffield S1.  For a map have a look at...

    http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/marketing/visit/tocity.html

  Our next meeting will take place on the afternoon of the 27th of
November at the Pennine Lecture Theatre,  Sheffield Hallam
University,  Sheffield.  There is seating for about 200 people.
Coffee and tea is served at 13.30 and the presentation begins at
14.00.  Finish at about 16.00 or whenever everyone stops asking
questions.

Robin Rowe - Founding partner, enterprise manager and chief
technologist for MovieEditor.com Robin Rowe who is a well known
motion picture technologist will give a talk about GNU/Linux as the
dominant operating system in feature film animation and special
effects.  Based in Beverly Hills Robin is a partner in the company
MovieEditor and leads an industry association called the Linux Movies
Group.    Just about every blockbuster motion picture you can see in
theatres today was produced with GNU/Linux through Titanic, Shrek,
Star Wars Episode 2 and The Last Samurai to many other popular films.
He will be describing the movie making too Gabrielle Pantera -
Founding partner, casting director and business manager for
MovieEditor.com ls of the trade, including proprietary commercial
products, internal programs based on code that is kept as closely
held trade secrets and popular open source projects.  One of the open
source programs Robin will cover is CinePaint-
http://www.cinepaint.org - which is a project that he leads.
Gabrielle Pantera will be here with him to help out and to discuss
other points that people may wish to raise or have answered.  You can
find out more about Robin and Gabrielle by clicking on the pictures
of both of them on this page.

Entrance will be through an online booking form.   Cost of the
presentation for participating individuals is nothing.  We would just
like to know who is coming along so that we don't over book the room.
To book your seat or seats please go to the Digital South Yorkshire
web site and fill in the online form...

http://www.digitalsy.org.uk/eventsbookingform.html?eventid=41

This event is sponsored by the Institution of Electrical Engineers and
Digital South Yorkshire.  If you haven't got a car then you can take
the bus to Sheffield Interchange bus station.  The Sheffield Midland
train station is just next to the lecture theatre.  Call 01709 515151
for more info about that.

Hope we see you there :)


Richard

www.sheflug.co.uk