[CREATE] Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 Community Campaign and Call For Participation Deadline May 1, 2010

[Jon Phillips]

Did anyone blog this as well and post to press outlets? I sent
around...hoping to get something out about the importance of it.

The next time for press would be like may 3 to announce the final
schedule and more...what do you think? Good?

(Flo, can you add this to our internal plan on fabricatorz. thx)

Jon

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jon Phillips <press at fabricatorz.com> wrote:
> Btw, this is sent, please spread the word!!! Its blogged too!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jon Phillips <press at fabricatorz.com>
> Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:10 PM
> Subject: Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 Community Campaign and Call For
> Participation Deadline May 1, 2010
> To: Fabricatorz PRESS LIST <press at lists.fabricatorz.com>
>
>
> For Immediate Release
>
> San Francisco and Brussels, Thursday 15 April 2010 - Libre Graphics
> Meeting is an annual working conference for the free software graphics
> application community. Developers from the full spectrum of graphics
> applications -- image editors, photography, 3-D and 2-D animation,
> vector art, graphic design, typography -- collaborate with each other
> on interoperability, push the state of the art in application
> functionality and user experience, and get important face-to-face
> interaction with users.
>
> LGM 2010 will take place between May 27 and 30th at De Pianofabriek in
> Brussels, Belgium. Developers from GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita,
> Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, the Open Font Library, and
> other open source projects are scheduled to appear. Technical talks
> will showcase new work in digital asset management, natural-media
> simulation, and internationalized font design. The program will also
> emphasize real-world usage of open source graphics software in
> professional publishing houses, multimedia production, and both the
> secondary education and art school classroom. Developers, users, or
> community members who would like to give a talk at LGM 2010 are
> encouraged to submit a proposal by following the instructions at
> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/. The deadline for submissions is May
> 1.
>
> Attendance at LGM is free for developers and users alike -- so the
> conference counts on the generosity of the open source graphics
> community to help underwrite the costs of putting on the conference
> and to help make it possible for individual open source developers to
> attend. This year the LGM team launched a fundraising campaign called
> 10by10by10 to raise $10,000 USD from grants, $10K from corporations
> and $10K from the community. The funds raised from granting
> organizations, public, and corporate partners will allow participants
> who have no other means of sponsoring their travel to Brussels to
> attend the event.
>
> The public sector in Belgium and the EU has been tremendously
> supportive of LGM, and has already exceeded its 10,000 dollar goal.
> However, some of the grant money donated is for specific tools, such
> as providing simultaneous language translation of the talks, and thus
> cannot be put towards the goal of allowing every developer who wants
> to attend to be there in person.
>
> Please make a donation to the community fundraising campaign at:
> http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926 -- and help a free graphics software
> developer benefit from the in-person collaboration at this year's LGM.
> Community donations have already raised $3,020 -- help us make the
> total by May 1st. Any amount, no matter how small, is helpful; many
> developers in Europe need only a small stipend for rail travel to make
> the trip a possibility. All donations are tax deductible for US
> taxpayers. For larger donations from corporations and individuals,
> contact us directly at lgm at gnome.org
>
> For more information about LGM 2010, previous years' meetings, and the
> Create Project that organizes the workshop, please visit
> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org
>
>
> Press Contacts
>
> Press Announcement
> http://fabricatorz.com/2010/04/join-us-for-the-libre-graphics-meeting-2010/
>
> Nathan Willis
> nwillis at glyphography.com
>
> Jon Phillips
> jon at rejon.org
> +1 510.499.0894
>
>
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