[CREATE] Venue LGM 2010!

[Yuval Levy]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> I still didn't send...waiting on some more ok's and let's do it!!!!

to be honest: the current version was too long and IMO only insiders can 
really make sens of it.

I don't have much time - here is a rough butcher work (not as bloody as 
the manicure I got from a table saw earlier this week when I tried to be 
3D-creative with wood rather than with Blender).

IMO it should fit on a single A4/Letter sheet when using Bitstream Vera 
Sans 12, and it should be understandable to non-geeks.

There is no sacred cow. Feel free to criticize, use, remix, cut. cut!
Yuv

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***Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels***

**Cutting edge graphics software meets free culture at Libre Graphics 
Meeting 2010**

Users and developers of graphics software will meet in Brussels, Belgium 
on May 26-29, 2010 at the fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM). 
Held near Brussels' city center in a newly renovated historical piano 
factory that is now a lively exhibition and work space. The LGM 
community is excited to bring this event to the European capital. The 
event is free and everyone is invited to attend.


**About the Libre Graphics Meeting**

The Libre Graphics Meeting unites and accelerates the efforts to advance 
creative use of software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the 
premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of Open Source 
projects such as GIMP (image editor), Inkscape (vector graphics), 
Blender (3D modeling), Krita (next generation painting), Scribus 
(desktop publishing), Hugin (panorama photography), the Open Clipart 
Library (reusable graphics), and the Open Font Library (reusable fonts).

We gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. 
Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas 
such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and 
common formats.

Face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important 
to users and developers alike; in the form of tutorials, talks, 
workshops, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) the event offers many formal and 
informal opportunities to interact.


Highlights from LGM 2009

150+ participants from around the world attended the last LGM in 
Montreal, Canada, for four days.

Supported by École Polytechnique Montréal, the LGM user community 
(raising money on pledgie.com), Sourceforge and many other sponsors 
(LIST AT http://URL.HERE), the conference funded travel for many 
international developers whom otherwise would not be able to work face 
to face.

Highlights included contributions by companies building on Open Source; 
presentations by users, developers, artists and academics, recorded at 
http://river-valley.tv/category/conferences/graphics/lgm-2009/ ; the 
projection of immersive movies and slideshows; an exhibit of printed 
artwork.

All major projects in attendance spent time planning activities for the 
next year. New projects like Lighttwist, a system for running 
multi-projector immersive video displays, and FacetZoom widget, set the 
stage for new exciting software developments leading into LGM 2010 in 
Brussels.


A preview of LGM 2010

For LGM 2010, the conference promoters challenge all participating 
projects and people to set goals and plan creative projects. One or more 
collaborative projects is to be developed, beyond just the tools used, 
such as a book or animation. The conference hopes to involve an 
increasing number of artists and academics to show novel uses of 
graphics software, and to discuss, analyse and provide inspiration.

In the coming months, LGM 2010 organizers will release more information 
about the upcoming conference, raising funds to enable the event, and 
release the official call for participation for 2010. Immediately, the 
conference organizers invite all interested in participating to watch 
the http://libregraphicsmeeting.org website and join the Create Project 
(http://create.freedesktop.org) mailing list and get involved.

LGM 2010 is hosted by the Libre Graphics Community and Constant in 
collaboration with De Pianofabriek, Master Networked Media and Research 
programme Communication in a Digital Age (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem 
de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam) and the Bruxelles Linux User Group (BXLUG).

For more information, visit http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org