Here is a short summary of MyPaint related things from Libre Graphics Meeting 2010.

The two most active MyPaint developers, Martin Renold and Jon Nordby attended, along with a number of MyPaint community members like “Popolon” and “vlada”.  Also attending was several users, including some that use MyPaint professionally like Camille Bissue “yagraph”. Sadly David Revoy, professional MyPaint user and concept artist on the Durian Open Movie project was not able to make it this year.

Martin Renold, the main developer and original creator of MyPaint did a technical talk on combining C/C++ with Python titled Extending Python for Speed (click link to watch).

An OpenRaster birds-of-a-feather session was held. It drew a lot of people, both from free and open source projects like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus, ghostscript and Nathive, but also professional standards people from Adobe, Opera and w3c attended, in additon to interested end-users. The topics were wide and mostly focused on long-term things, but consensus was reached on a number of points regarding the standard and on the direction of the format. This work will hopefully lead to a better experience for users of MyPaint and the OpenRaster file format.

Next year we hope to see even more people involved in MyPaint, both developers, community members and artists!

Libre Graphics Meeting, or LGM for short, is a conference for users and developers of free and open source graphics software. It brings together people from many projects, including Inkscape, GIMP, Krita and Blender, and aims to foster collaboration and sharing of ideas.

This year, LGM is held in Brussels, Belgium between 27th and 30th of May. MyPaint will be represented, for the first time, by at least project leader Martin Renold and developer Jon Nordby. Obvious highlights so far includes Martins proposed technical talk on C/C++ extensions for Python and the planned OpenRaster BoF session. There will undoubtedly be many other interesting things going on when so many great people with similar interests come together.

For more information about Libre Graphics Meeting, read Alexandre Prokoudines article on libregraphicsworld.org and check out the official website.
We hope to see as many people involved with MyPaint and other free software graphics projects as possible, both users and developers. So don’t be shy, sign up and come join us!
If you are unable to attend, but wish to support this effort, please consider donating.