North Bay Linux Users’ Group

general meeting

Tux Paint

When: Tue January 14, 2003 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM

Speaker: Bill Kendrick

Location: O'Reilly and Associates

Tux Paint is open source painting software designed for children. It runs on Linux, but also runs on a wide variety of other operating systems.

This presentation will include:

Demonstration of using Tux Paint - Why did Bill start the project? - Why did Bill choose to do it Open Source? - Tux Paint’s language- and platform-agnosticism - How users and developers can extend Tux Paint (for themselves/their kids, or for the general community of users)

Bill Kendrick is the author of the Tux Paint software. He is also one of the founders and the current president of LUGOD. Before moving to Davis he attended SSU.

Published Tue 14 January 2003 by Eric Eisenhart