Well, one piece of open source software I'll certainly be using is
Audacity, for editing audio files. It's as good as anything around for
simple podcast editing. GIMP is *not bad* for photo editing although I'm
much more familiar with Photoshop (and more qualified to use it).
When it comes to design for brochures and booklets (for example) I'd use
Adobe Fireworks to create any graphics or images I'd need. I'd use
Acrobat to be able to work closely with designers, especially during an
iterative design process (such as the ongoing one for our 2012 annual
report) rather than listing everything in long open office documents.
For video editing (vox pops and so on) I'd use Adobe Premiere.
Hopefully the above answers Tom M's question too. Beyond those pieces of
software I can't imagine I'd use the rest of Adobe CS at the moment -
although Dreamweaver may be useful for designing emails to members and
donors.
On 17/04/2012 13:23, Fae wrote:
On 17 April 2012 13:18, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote:
I believe our existing policy is to use open source tools whenever
they exist and are fit-for-purpose. Just because they aren't the
industry standard shouldn't be a reason not to use them.
Cool, name something that is fit-for-purpose.
In the meantime, Stevie's request seems entirely sensible rather than
expecting Wikimedia UK to fork out several hundred quid in licenses
without seeing if we can get one as a donation.
Cheers,
Fae
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