<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">============================================</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> For Immediate Release:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" 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> <br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The full program for 2014 is now available here: <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/program/">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/program/</a>.</div> <br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Registration can be done here: <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/register/">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/register/</a></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Donations can be made here: <a href="https://pledgie.com/campaigns/22927">https://pledgie.com/campaigns/22927</a></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Highlights from LGM2013</div><div class="gmail_default" 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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> About the Libre Graphics Meeting</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><< What main points/take-away do you want to point out here >></div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> ============================================</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">pat david<div><a href="http://blog.patdavid.net" target="_blank">http://blog.patdavid.net</a></div> </div> </div>