[CREATE] Proposals for LGM 2010 - Deadline approaching

[Jon Phillips]

Sounds good to me. It sounds like the parts you need assistance with
is what is normally provided by admin support for the conference.

I'm hopeful we can lock in Brussels asap.

Jon

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:59 PM,  <snelting at collectifs.net> wrote:
> Dear all!
>
> As we wrote earlier, we are *serious* about organising LGM in Brussels,
> and though to announce the exact venue a year in advance is difficult for
> us to organise, we would like to propose 5-8 May 2010 as dates and of
> course Brussels as host city :-)
>
> The local organisation responsible for LGM would be Constant
> http://www.constantvzw.org, association for art and media. Constant works
> since 1997 on projects that involve Free Software, Open Content Licenses
> and other free culture activism and currently consists of 5 part time
> members (I'm one of them ;-)). The advantage of Constant as organiser is
> that the association has a formal non-profit status, is funded on a
> long-term basis by the Flemish Community and in general eligible for
> government funding.
>
> The Constant team is super motivated to help host LGM2010 in Brussels
> because we hope that in this way they/we contribute to the development of
> our favourite tools.
>
> Trying to avoid any user-developer divide whenever possible, and even if
> some of our members are developers, we're a cultural organisation so we
> need your help in making sure the event is what it needs to be. LGM 2010
> will no doubt be yet again a bit different than before, but hopefully you
> are looking as much forward to it as we are.
>
> AUDIENCE
>
> Constant is closely networked with many (digital) arts- and design
> organisations in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and The Netherlands so we
> can expect quite some visitors from across Europe. Locally, we work with
> various art- and design schools and the Brussels Linux User Group --
> several members of BXLUG have already expressed enthusiasm for
> participating in LGM2010.
>
> We would like to promote the event at a.o.: The Open Video Conference
> (June 2009), RMLL (July 2009), FOSDEM (February 2010)
>
> FUNDING
>
> We have good hopes for successful applications at Belgium and possibly
> Dutch cultural/educational funders. We will look into EU funding too, but
> no guarantees because the administrative load might be out of balance.
> We're interested in making connections with local printing industry,
> though as you know, these are hard times.
> Being a cultural organisation, we know well how to do funding
> applications, but have not much experience with commercial sponsoring.
> BXLUG has offered help on this but we will also need your help as well.
>
> VENUE
>
> We are working on a few options right now. It will not be too difficult to
> find a location for LGM, it is about choosing the right one. Among our
> favourite options:
>
> - The Royal Albertina Library (high class venue, beautiful lecture hall,
> close to station etc. but possibly a bit hard to access in weekends)
> - De Pianofabriek (large venue, recently renovated, multiple spaces for
> workshops, network etc. all ok; spaces for meetings / BOF etc., located in
> nice St. Gilles neighbourhood close to the city centre. But it's convivial
> atmosphere could be a bit too informal for LGM?)
>
> LODGING
>
> Constant organised many medium-sized festivals and events in the past few
> years. We have worked with several hotels and hostels; Brussels has many
> options available at reasonable prices.
>
> VISUAL IDENTITY
>
> As you can imagine ... this has already caused quite some discussion
> amongst OSP's ;-) Later, I'll try to respond to the relevant messages
> earlier on the list.
>
> CATERING
>
> Expect great food and drinks. And we really mean it!
>
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