<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com" target="_self">alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Nathan Willis <<a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com">nwillis@glyphography.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Tangential thoughts here:<br> ><br> > When it comes to press outreach, we definitely do not want to (a) limit<br> > ourselves to "print" (or web-print...) news outlets. Podcasts, videocasts<br> > (e.g., Meet the GIMP) and the like are just as important and have strangely<br> > divergent audiences.<br> <br> </div>Er... I specifically contacted MTG and various other FLOSS communities<br> about that in the past. The Pledgie widget is always at <a href="http://inkscape.org" target="_self">inkscape.org</a><br> during the campaign (I think I can add it to <a href="http://gimp.org" target="_self">gimp.org</a> too), and it's 0<br> problem to announce the campaign on G+ pages for both Inkscape, GIMP,<br> and few other pages with lots of visits.<br> <div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Sure; I suppose I was thinking more about FOSS pdocasts like FLOSS Weekly or The Changelog. Although I only follow the English ones.... Actually we probably should just start a formal list that anyone can add to.<br> <br>Do you have a list of web forums you pay attention to? Same goes there; I know what a bunch of them are, but I also recall being surprised to learn of the vinyl-cutting ones you knew about in the vinyl-cutting-app story, so compiling a list seems helpful there, too.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"> > ... or to (b) limit ourselves only to "FLOSS" press. I recommend spreading<br> > the word to blogs, newsy sites, and discussion forums that cater to graphic<br> > design as a subject. In particular to invite artists -- assuming we will<br> > have things for them to do, workshopwise or meet-with-developerswise -- but<br> > also to help find the basement-hacker-doing-something-really-wild who is not<br> > plugged in to a formal project.<br> <br> </div>Sure.<br> <div class="im"><br> > On a related note, it is best to separate out our news releases to have<br> > specific purposes. At this stage, we should still be highlighting the CFP,<br> <br> </div>The what? :)<br> <div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div>Call For Participation (or in the old days, "Papers")<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im"> > because we want to get the word out to potential speakers and participants.<br> > That might not mean as many of the web discussion forums -- which tend to<br> > revolve around user discussions -- but it could. Certainly the recent<br> > deviantArt presentation, for example, was excellent and eye-opening.<br> <br> </div>Well, I have contacts to DA guys. Actually, maybe we could get some of<br> them to the conference.<br></blockquote><div><br>Cool.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im"><br> > - EditShare: they're still talking about open source; it has been a long<br> > time coming, but it might do worlds of good to reach out to them in a<br> > friendly way and invite them to LGM, rather than just ask where the source<br> > code is<br> <br> </div>I could do that.<br></blockquote><div><br>Okay.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im"><br> > - Robofab: I genuinely did not know this was an open source project until<br> > one week ago; they periodically cross paths with the open source community<br> > on the type forums, but inviting them would potentially start a much better<br> > conversation<br> <br> </div>I tink you have more direct contacts than me here :)<br> <br> How about Makerbot? They recently got one of Blender developers as an<br> employee, and I run into varios OSS code relevant to Makerbot all the<br> time.<br></blockquote><div><br>I actually don't have contacts with Robofab, but I don't mind reaching out. Makerbot would be interesting as well. I can think of some other hardware-related projects that *might* be interesting (camera triggering controllers, for example) -- although, that _could_ grow fast enough to overrun us with Open Hardware stuff, since it's such a hot commodity at the moment.<br> <br></div></div>I think in all three of these cases, it would help to have a note from the organizers/hosts in order to make it clear we're not asking without permission. Maybe I'm just more concerned about EditShare, since they have had some near-arguments about their open source strategy on the discussion forum.<br clear="all"> <br>Nate<br>-- <br>nathan.p.willis<br><a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com">nwillis@glyphography.com</a><br>aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis<br><a href="http://identi.ca/n8">identi.ca/n8</a><br>