[CREATE] Pitching a community-funded conference
Jon Phillips
jon at rejon.org
Sat Mar 15 19:21:11 PDT 2008
I will ask Gunar @ Adobe if he will speak...he is Mr. XMP :) We worked
together on the BSD licensing of the toolkit, exempi, liblicense and
more..
Jon
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 13:25 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote:
> On Friday, March 14, 2008, 6:18:59 AM, Ted wrote:
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> 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.
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> >> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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