<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">2014-02-10 14:20 GMT-05:00 Pat David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patdavid@gmail.com" target="_blank">patdavid@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi all,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Pat, </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Just took a quick stab at writing a press release now that the program is published. Please have a quick look and feel free to offer suggestions/corrections/critiques where appropriate:</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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For Immediate Release:</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">April 2-5 Leipzig University (<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17.954999923706055px">Universität Leipzig)</span></div>
</div></blockquote><div>add ", Germany" </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Free/Open culture intersects cutting edge technologies at the 9th annual Libre Graphics Meeting being held at Leipzig University this year. The Libre Graphics Meeting is an opportunity for bringing together users and developers of various Free/Libre Open Source Software projects. These tools are free to use and modify for anyone, and this meeting presents an opportunity for designers, musicians, artists, and developers to interact, share their work, and learn from each other.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div>make that "opportunity for developers, designers and artists…" (I would remove musicians that can be included in "artists").</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This year there are almost 80 different talks, presentations, and workshops scheduled covering a large cross section of the Libre Graphics community. Every day there are plans for hackfests, discussions, and workshops. The ability for presenters to inspire the attendees through showcasing their work and methods is a great strength of LGM.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The full program for 2014 is now available here: <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/program/" target="_blank">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/program/</a>.</div>
<br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">LGM is free to attend and with such a broad representation of the FL/OSS community there's bound to be talks of interest for everyone!</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Registration can be done here: <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/register/" target="_blank">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/register/</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Libre Graphics Meeting is the premiere annual meeting for many FL/OSS projects and relies on the generosity of users and fans to help bring everyone together to share and interact. The conference is free of charge to attend and tries to help offset the costs of bringing these teams together. Therefore, it is vital to the continued success of the meeting that it receive as much support as possible.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is a pledgie campaign for contributing to help fund the costs of this invaluable meeting. If you are a user or just a fan of Free and Open Source Software, please consider donating as a way to say "Thank You!" to the developers of these projects.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Donations can be made here: <a href="https://pledgie.com/campaigns/22927" target="_blank">https://pledgie.com/campaigns/22927</a></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Libre Graphics Meeting is thankful to all its sponsors and donors: Leipzig University, Google, GIMP, Publisher, Red Hat, German Unix User Group, Shuttleworth Foundation, Python Sofware Foundation, LinuxFunds. Organisations willing to sponsor the event can contact us at <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/contacts/">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/contacts/</a></div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Highlights from LGM2013</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<< Can anyone fill in some small level of details that might be good to include here please?>></div></div></div></blockquote><div>To give an overview of what to expect in 2014, last year in Madrid (our picture) there were 89 scheduled talks, 10 workshops, 3 performances, 3 lectures, 15 lightning talks with participants traveling from 26 countries like Argentina, Australia, Thailand, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.</div>
<div>Source: <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/about/">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/about/</a> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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About the Libre Graphics Meeting</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><< What main points/take-away do you want to point out here >></div></div></div></blockquote><div><a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/press/">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/press/</a> (scroll down a bit) </div>
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============================================</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We need the contact infos at the bottom of the page.</div><div><br></div><div>Super!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>
<br></div><div>Louis</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</div><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div dir="ltr">pat david<div><a href="http://blog.patdavid.net" target="_blank">http://blog.patdavid.net</a></div>
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