[CREATE] Venue LGM 2010!

Fri Jul 17 04:38:01 PDT 2009

2009/7/17 Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>

> 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.

I am ok with the PR. We have everything right, now, so let’s push this.

Couple things to consider (among others):
1. Help people get their trip organised and planned ahead. It’s not always
easy to deal with work-family-vacation
2. 6 months might be ok for people (and not all the people), not for
sponsors. We need that PR out. We need to be able to tell that LGM 5 is on
the go.

Cheers !

Louis

>
>
> 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?
> >
> >> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> --- CUT HERE ---
> >>
> >> ***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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