[CREATE] LGM2010 Push

[Nathan Willis]

Attached a shortened, TODAY-centric piece to this email -- let me know what
you think.

Bullet points:
* SHORT
* highlights developer travel
* mentions small donations plusgood, not just big
* skips detail on non-community fundraising numbers, lest individual donors
feel less inclined to give
* draws "example" content from the submitted talks -- I know that's not
perfect, but it makes the content "real" for people who've never been in the
past.

Additions?  Subtractions?  I do want to keep this short-n-sweet; we can link
to longer copy on the site & wiki for the interested; the idea is just to
draw them in and highlight the need.

Thanks,
Nate

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Femke Snelting <snelting at collectifs.net>
> wrote:
> >> Femke, N8 and friends, we need to put the full court press on this week!
> >> N8, can you lead the writing of a press release and lets target a rapid
> >> turnaround of WED PST to do an announcement.
> >> We can announce how much money we've raised,
> >
> > we've got an ok sum of public funding (our second application was
> confirmed last week + Francophonie) and happy to see Pledgie picking up
>
> So how much total do we have now?
>
> >> how much we need, the
> >> sponsorship packages, who is sponsoring and then of course saying we
> >> have a deadline of May 1 for submitting presentations.
> >
> > ok, I was working from an 1 April deadline but it explains why probably
> not many core teams proposed a talk yet ;-)
> > Happy to extend, if it helps but we'll need to fix the programme a.s.a.p.
> after that deadline.
>
> Totally, we need a super well communicated deadline. Saturday, May 1.
> Done. No more.
>
> >> Femke, how does this sound to you? We really need this and I think.
> >
> > sounds fine!
> >
> >> We are in #create to talk about this on irc.freenode.net
> >> <http://irc.freenode.net> and #lgm. Please hop in via your favorite
> >> client or here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=create
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >
> > I'm starting local press this week.
>
> Ok, great. Nate, could you put something together from all this data
> onto the wiki? :)
>
> Cheers guys, I'll keep on getting money and stuff moving fwd
> there...is WED of this week realistic?
>
> Jon
>
> >
> > best
> >
> > Femke
> >
>
>
>
> --
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Libre Graphics Meeting asks for community support

Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual working conference for the free software graphics application community.  Developers from the full spectrum of graphics applications -- image editors, photography, 3-D animation, vector art, graphic design, typography -- collaborate with each other on interoperability, push the state of the art in application functionality and user experience, and get important face-to-face interaction with users. 

LGM 2010 will take place between May 27 and 30th at De Pianofabriek in Brussels, Belgium.  Developers from GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, the Open Font Library, and other open source projects are scheduled to appear.  Technical talks will showcase new work in digital asset management, natural-media simulation, and internationalized font design.  The program will also emphasize real-world usage of open source graphics software in professional publishing houses, multimedia production, and both the secondary education and art school classroom.

Attendance at LGM is free for developers and users alike -- so the conference counts on the generosity of the open source graphics community to help underwrite the costs of putting on the conference and to help make it possible for individual open source developers to attend.  This year the LGM team launched a fundraising campaign called 10by10by10 to raise $10,000 USD from grants, $10K from corporations and $10K from the community. The funds raised from granting organizations, public, and corporate partners will allow participants who have no other means of sponsoring their travel to Brussels to attend the event.

The public sector in Belgium and the EU has been tremendously supportive of LGM, and has already exceeded its 10,000 dollar goal.  However, some of the grant money donated is for specific tools, such as providing simultaneous language translation of the talks, and thus cannot be put towards the goal of allowing every developer who wants to attend to be there in person.

Please make a donation to the community fundraising campaign at: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926 -- and help a free graphics software developer benefit from the in-person collaboration at this year's LGM.

Community donations have already raised $3,020 -- help us make the total by May 1st.  Any amount, no matter how small, is helpful; many developers in Europe need only a small stipend for rail travel to make the trip a possibilty. All donations are tax deductible for US taxpayers. For larger donations from corporations and individuals, contact us directly at lgm at gnome.org