[CREATE] LGM and development opportunities

[Yuval Levy]

Hi Louis,

can we keep the discussion on a single mailing list, please? I guess 
most lists copied will bounce this message back because I am not 
subscribed there. Let's use create at lists.freedesktop.org?

The Hugin community is generally positive about collaborating with SAT. 
I had contacts with René Barsalo because we are interested to access 
their amazing dome for research purposes and to show artwork created 
with Hugin, if possible in an exhibit open to the general public.

Technically, our creative process (and thus our LGM presentations) does 
not really require the dome until the artwork is exhibited. Those 
presentations can be held in a traditional setting.

Our interest is to:
* learn about the dome
* showcase art from our community

I am thankful to René for giving me some access to the display last 
week. After one hour with Louis-Philippe I have a basic understanding. I 
need more details to optimize Hugin's output for the dome. Ideally we'd 
love to hack at the dome, but I understand it is now run by proprietary 
software, so the possibilities seems quite limited?

To showcase art from our community we were thinking of either an art 
exhibition, or a contest amongst our user community with sponsored 
prizes and possibly access to the general public (and public voting?).

The rest we can do at the main site, since working with Hugin and the 
current development can all be shown in a conventional setting. And 
maybe we can even *print* some of our community artwork to exhibit at 
the main site?

 From my experience at LGM2007, there will be parallel tracks, and Hugin 
attracts only a very small part of the LGM audience. I suspect that 
faced with the choice, most people will stay on the mainstream track at 
Poly and  the SAT track will be deserted. I personally would find it 
very limiting to spend the day at SAT with Hugin and Blender only while 
so many interesting things are going on at Poly.

IMHO the strength of a collaboration with SAT is to reach out to the 
general public. Not to the coders and users, i.e. not to the natural LGM 
public.

The synergy LGM-SAT is IMO the fact that many of the coders and users 
are already on location. But the target audience is IMO different: 
coders and users for LGM; the general public for SAT. This is why I 
proposed René to piggy-back either the day before or after LGM.

We can show together immersive artwork (both Hugin and Blender, 
photographic and generated) "after-hours".

SAT people are natural LGM public and they can come to LGM's main site 
for everything but the presentation of their dome. IMO one slot / 
off-site presentation of the dome is enough, and ideally it would be at 
the end of one day.

If I am faced with the choice of spending one day at SAT with Hugin and 
Blender only; or to spend it on a mainstream track with GIMP, Krita, 
Inkscape, Scribus, my choice is for the mainstream, sorry. And I will 
ask to hold my presentation at Poly. I'm at LGM for more than just the 
immersive stuff. Turn around the 360° often enough and centrifugal 
forces will appear...

Yuv



Louis Desjardins wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is an exploratory email for all teams participating at LGM. There are
> more questions than answers and everything is in discussion at present time.
> In the end we need the input of each team. Here's the punch!
>
> I had a very productive discussion with René Barsalo at the SAT on Monday
> about next LGM. Summary:
>
> For next LGM we could have at least two projects working a full day at SAT:
> Blender and Hugin. The SAT immersive projection equipment would be available
> to both teams for direct work, hacking, presentations, etc.. Starting at
> 11:00 the day would be followed by a LGM "5 to 7" where all the teams would
> gather for a beer.
>
> So far we have thought of Thursday to be that day. So, second day of LGM.
>
> We need to know if this would appeal to the development teams of Hugin and
> Blender.
>
> Although I trust this event can only add to the interest of LGM, and also
> noting that this is in no way competing with Polytechnique's facilities —
> only a big plus to have the SAT in Montreal and to have LGM in Montreal... I
> think we need to find out if there are any objection to this proposal.
>
> I ask Blender and Hugin people to step in. Guys! Tell us what you think. To
> all other, please do the same! Speak up!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Louis
> LGM 2009 main organiser
> Montréal GMT -5
>
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