I had a chance to attend the Pune GNU/Linux Users Group (PLUG) ClipArt Hackathon on Sunday, March 12, 2017 at Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana. The hackathon was an initiative to start organizing different kinds of F/OSS events.

Gaurav (“dexter”) Pant started the day’s proceedings with a quick demo of Inkscape. He also provided the participants with an Inkscape quick reference sheet. The advantage of creating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is that it can be used on a web page as well as enlarged for printing on posters and banners, without any distortion.

I took this time to create some illustrations. The first image was a logo with the letter “S”, whose shape was modified to fit into a boundary. The stick-figure-push SVG is already available in Openclipart. I modified it for a stick-figure-pull image. Few icons were then created for use in web pages. Finally, I completed an SVG of “The Common Man”.

All the images are available in Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license at Wikimedia ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Shakthimaan ).

The hackathon was a good initiative to encourage creative contributions to F/OSS. I was happy to see a number of excellent designers who were creating beautiful SVGs. Participants used both GIMP and Inkscape for their work. It was also good to have met the PLUG members.

PC: Siddharth Subramaniam

Such events help grow the activities in a region, and also showcases the diversity in a F/OSS group.