Make money with free software…
Oct 31st, 2008 by capitaladmin
Dutch Python hacker/artist Stani took part in a contest organised by the Dutch Ministry Of Finance to design a 5 euro commemorative coin. And he won, using only free software:
‘The whole design was done for 100% with free software. The biggest part consists of custom software in Python, of course within the SPE editor. For the visual power I used PIL and pyCairo. From time to time also Gimp, Inkscape and Phatch helped quite a bit. All the developing and processing was done on GNU/Linux machines which were running Ubuntu/Debian. I would have loved to release the coin under the GPL, which could maybe solve the financial crisis. However for obvious reasons I was not allowed to do that.’
Pretty clever design and a lengthy write up on the methods and inspiration behind the development of this coin design. Read more about it after the jump. Again… we will not likely see intriguing designs like this on our coinage over here in the US by any stretch of the imagination.
[ via SPE IDE ]
