These are the stamps available in Tux Paint. We can use them in our paintings.
We can increase or decrease their size by clicking here.
See, I have now shrunk it, and now it is enlarged.
Tux Paint has only a few stamps that show the native flora of Kerala,
In a project by the Free Software Users Group of students from the VHSS Irimpanam school,
we decided to add more stamps of Kerala flowers, vegetables and fruits.
As part of the project,
students brought digital photographs of flowers, fruits and vegetables available
in their locality, taken with digital and mobile phone cameras.
Then, using the Free image editing program 'GIMP'
these images were cropped, backgrounds removed,
resolution was reduced to 150x150, and saved as .png files.
We took photographs from our premises and brought them to school.
Then, we cut them into small stamps using GIMP and saved them in our computers.
Students processed their digital photos with GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
The resulting images were added to Tux Paint.
Freedom 0, the freedom to run the program for any purpose,
allowed the school to install the program in as many computers as needed.
Freedom 1 grants the freedom to study how the program works, and to change it as needed.
Students made use of freedom 1 to adapt Tux Paint to the needs of their community.
All computers in this school, including the administration offices,
run exclusively the Free Libre operating system GNU/Linux.
Nearly 1,000 students from 10 to 15 years old
use the GNU/Linux system regularly in the lab and in the classroom.
Then we recorded the names of these flowers in Malayalam using a microphone.
Appooppan Thaady.
Then we typed the names of the flowers in Malayalam, and saved them as text files.
Freedom 2 allowed the school to hand out copies of GIMP and Tux Paint,
so students were able to install the programs at home for further practice.
These modifications have been uploaded to our website
and made available to others with instructions for installation.
Anyone interested can download and install them.
Different varieties of local flowers are used in it.
Our website is: http://vhssirimpanam.org
Freedom 3: Students distributed their modified version through the school's website.
The results...