[CREATE] Venue LGM 2010!

Fri Jul 17 05:15:33 PDT 2009

Looks good to me!

How about Sunday?  Like I mentioned before, we are competing for attention
with OSCON next week, but if we are early that should not be too much of a
problem.

Nate

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Louis Desjardins <
louis.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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