[CREATE] Pitching a community-funded conference

[Chris Lilley]

On Friday, March 14, 2008, 6:18:59 AM, Ted wrote:

TG> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:47 +0100, Cyrille Berger wrote:
>> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Dave Neary wrote:
>> > At its inception, Libre Graphics Meeting is about showcasing free
>> > software graphics applications, and enabling free software graphics
>> > developers to meet and exchange ideas. Personally, I would invite Adobe
>> > if they started releasing some of their graphics applications as free
>> > software.

>> http://opensource.adobe.com/ and http://opensource.adobe.com/ , it's not full 
>> applications, but they do provide some graphics free software ;) Having some 
>> of them, could also be helpfull in discussing with them about that and open 
>> specifications.

TG> The one thing that they have open sourced and are probably interested in
TG> promoting inside open source is XMP...  we've talked about supporting it
TG> more than once in Inkscape.  If nothing else, someone should see if
TG> they'll give a talk.

They are also interested in seeing it standardised, for example at W3C, and Liam Quin and I (both W3C) will be at the conference; so a talk would be interesting and perhaps some discussion afterwards on next steps.





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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris at w3.org
 Interaction Domain Leader
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG