News Release: Milkymist One video synthesizer shown at 6th Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal

May 10, 2011 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
MONTREAL, Canada

x00 attendees of the 6th Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal were able to see the Milkymist One video synthesizer for the first time, to entertain and surprise them between talks and during breaks. Real-time video synthesis with audio and video input had been available before in proprietary packages combining multiple devices and costing several thousand USD. Milkymist One combines this into a small form factor, and uses only free software and free hardware acceleration.

TBD: reaction from audience, m1 stock photo, photo from m1 at lgm, quote from Jon

[1] Milkymist homepage: http://www.milkymist.org/

[2] Milkymist One homepage: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Milkymist_One

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About Milkymist
The Milkymist project is an informal organization of people and companies who develop, manufacture and sell a comprehensive open source solution for the live synthesis of interactive visual effects for VJs. The project goes great lengths to apply the open source principles at every level possible, and is best known for the Milkymist system-on-chip (SoC) which is among the first commercialized system-on-chip designs with free HDL source code. Several Milkymist technologies have been reused in applications unrelated to video synthesis, such as NASA's Communication Navigation and Networking Reconfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT).

About Libre Graphics Meeting
The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library who gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats.

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