<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><div>On Aug 1, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Ted Gould wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Currently SCALE has a Friday slot for a couple of other events,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">including an Open Source Healthcare summit and a Women in Open Source</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">meeting.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I think it makes the most sense to do a similar Friday event.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'm thinking it should be called "Libre Graphics Los Angeles" or LGLA.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I haven't run it past the SCALE organizers yet, but I was curious what</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">people on this list thought about the idea.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>Of course, we should address your main question first.</div><div><br></div><div>So, yes, I definitely think it's good to have a "taste of LGM" meeting at SCALE and perhaps other locations. I think SCALE is a *very* good place for one. The mix of people attending SCALE is very good, and the general area is very good for finding creative types in addition to technical ones.</div></body></html>