[CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website

[jon at rejon.org]

Amen brother. +1

On Aug 15, 2010 10:42 PM, "Cyrille Berger" <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 08 August 2010, Camille Bissuel wrote:
>> The whole purpose of the LGA proposition is collaboration between
projects.
>> It's not "a ring to rule them all" neither.
> On a side note, it is exactly what freedesktop is about.
>
> The only thing that can't work under freedesktop is the certification
thing.
>
>> The Create wiki is very useful for "internal" work. But it's not for
users.
> But very good for collaboration between projects :D
>
>> Other websites, including http://libregraphicsworld.org, aren't aimed to
>> address the LGA purpose, they are too specific. I have time to build such
a
>> website, so it's not a waste of time for other projects.
>
> While lgw does not cover the LGA purpose, it matches the lga website. To
be
> honest, from what I have understood, lga = lgw + create. If people thinks
> create does not works very well, I fail to see how having an "association"
is
> going to magically solve any problem. Especially, considering that what
create
> lack is mostly of animation.
>
> Also, creating an association with no revenue seems to be a lot of
> bureaucratic work. In many countries, the main point of registering an
> association is to get access to a bank account.
>
> Finally, I want to encourage any effort in promoting libre creative
software,
> but I add my voices in the "there is already too many separated efforts,
lets
> join force instead of creating new".
>
> Or alternatively, lets create something really new.
>
> I think the success of the blender foundation, both movies and/or tutorial
dvd
> (like [1]) could give us ideas.
> So we could create a magazine (available as PDF, and printed to people who

> want a paper edition, actually someone already started such a project, I
think
> ?), or a booklet that could be send as "commercial" to companies, a book
> (either tutorial, or a "story" book with illustration created with our
> software).
> All done with free software. Then you can show the results to
professional,
> and impress them. When I was a student, I participated in editing a
student
> weekly newspaper, we managed to print in four colors using a two cylinders

> rotary printer, the seller was so surprised by the result that you could
get
> with the machine, that he sent a few samples of our journal to the
direction
> in Japan. This little story shows that if you do interesting things, you
will
> get attention.
> There is already an impressive pool of artists using our software, lets
pull
> them together to create material that display the power of our tools. And
this
> require someone with energy and time to coordinate, and would bring (in my

> opinion) more added value, that yet-an-other website.
>
> [1] http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=122
>
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> Cyrille Berger
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