[CREATE] Venue LGM 2010!

Fri Jul 17 02:25:58 PDT 2009

Ok, now we're back into next week's news cycle....just want to get
this out to be honest at this point. I'll look at this weekend.

press releases are for those who write news...the more the better...

Jon

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM, <snelting at collectifs.net> wrote:
>>> I still didn't send...waiting on some more ok's and let's do it!!!!
>
> Eh ... you already had my blessing
>
>> to be honest: the current version was too long and IMO only insiders can
>> really make sens of it.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by insiders and outsiders here ;-) but yes it
> has grown long!
>
>> 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).
>
> I like it more fast-paced as well; Jon / Nat -- what do you think?
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>> IMO it should fit on a single A4/Letter sheet when using Bitstream Vera
>> Sans 12, and it should be understandable to non-geeks.
>
> To draw in typographers we might need quite another text and something
> else than Bitstream Vera ;-) but I think at this point it is about
> announcing date and place and targeting a general tech-conference audience
> so the shorter, the better? a.l.e + Louis + Constant will work on the
> LGM-site soon (planned to go public in August); from than on it might be
> easier to communicate depth and breadth of the event.
>
> The kinds of audiences I am connected to, do not expect communication
> earlier than 6 months in advance plus really a site needs to be up so I
> rely on you all to decide on the tone/length of this release.
>
> Let me know when we're at a final version and I will re-re-sync Dutch and
> French a.s.a.p.!
>
>
> Femke
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>> --- CUT HERE ---
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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 Ã‰cole Polytechnique MontrÃ©al, 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
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