2011/2/12 Femke Snelting <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:snelting@collectifs.net" target="_blank">snelting@collectifs.net</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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(let's keep ginger, our other local in the loop and/or should we discuss this on CREATE?)</blockquote><div><br>The Create list is perfect for that. We also have a few more people in Montréal : Celine Celines, Aline Crédeville and Christina Haralanova who should be able to enter the dance ! So it's better to keep the discussions on this track I think. <br>
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I think better then to keep in lock-step about that plan. For the<br>
talks, we know about it, shorter time means higher quality...and in<br>
the end, its a bit of ballot box stuffing on getting talks...one thing<br>
that would be really nice is to make cuts on talks too! and/or<br>
recommendation for updates on other talks...at some point, just<br>
accepting everything allows noise.<br>
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2011 will be the raise of the panels ! :) (so less noise !!!!)<br>
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Less talks, more meetings and scheduled team and among teams meetings<br>
too. That way, we really meet !<br>
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Not sure about needing less talks, but in favour of having a few well-prepared, moderated panels :-)</blockquote><div><br>Femke ! It's a reality. We have 4 days and so many hours. If we organise panels of 90 minutes we'll have 3 less “talks“ for each panel but we gain a panel. What we do not want is spread the people in 2 or 3 tracks. Plus, scheduling the teams’ meetings will also pave the road to more exchanges.<br>
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Yesterday when we talked I put the idea of having a design contest for<br>
LGM. We'd open it soon, close it about 2-3 weeks before LGM starts, pick<br>
the best 15 projects (we would ask people to use any open source tool<br>
and produce a printable poster of 24“ X 36“ that I would print at my<br>
office). The pick for those 15 would be made by the people voting and<br>
then for the last call, to determine the winner out of the 15<br>
semi-finalists we could have a jury (?) made of (?) professionals,<br>
teachers (tbd) and then we have a winner and possibly a prize (?) — a<br>
Linux box filled with the software ? Thinking out loud... Those posters<br>
would be all over the place in Galerie Rolland at Polytechnique so we'd<br>
own the place graphically ! :)<br>
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Louis, have a look at the titanpad/notes on wiki -- we described a possible scenario: ginger and me talked extensively about your offer to print posters and we felt it is a great idea. We both prefer to rather invite people to make posters available as free content (including sources!) and than have a discussion about them @ LGM (not a contest), to pick a few for printing and to feature others in Libre Graphics Magazine. Maybe re-discuss with ginger next week; we're ready to organise it and make it interesting for different types of participants.</blockquote>
<div><br>Nice. The idea of a contest was actually something we discussed with Celine and was actually a derivative idea of the work done by Yuval in 2009 — remember those incredible panoramas ! If we don't want to call that a contest but we have a jury... isn't that a bit of two contrary ideas? Designers are completely driven by contest btw. For artists, it's a different thing. Anyway, I do not wish to argue too much on that. I guess that the prize is to be published and showed at LGM. But again, will that be enough to gather the top designers? Just a side note about the numbers: 15 posters to be printed in the magazine, this is a lot, Ginger. Unless you put a few per page? The cost for printing one poster is something. The cost for printing them in a magazine is something else. Only a thought, since money is an issue !<br>
<br>Whatever we call this, the idea is to have a series of outstanding designs made with open source software. :)<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Louis<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Femke : closing the call for talks ~3 weeks before LGM sounds<br>
reasonable ?<br>
> Friday April 22?<br>
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