Amen brother. +1 On Aug 15, 2010 10:42 PM, "Cyrille Berger" <<a href="mailto:cberger@cberger.net">cberger@cberger.net</a>> 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 <a href="http://libregraphicsworld.org">http://libregraphicsworld.org</a>, 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] <a href="http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=122">http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=122</a> > > -- > Cyrille Berger > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a>