[CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website

[Cyrille Berger]

On Sunday 08 August 2010, Camille Bissuel wrote:
> The whole purpose of the LGA proposition is collaboration between projects.
> It's not "a ring to rule them all" neither.
On a side note, it is exactly what freedesktop is about.

The only thing that can't work under freedesktop is the certification thing.

> The Create wiki is very useful for "internal" work. But it's not for users.
But very good for collaboration between projects :D

> Other websites, including http://libregraphicsworld.org, aren't aimed to
> address the LGA purpose, they are too specific. I have time to build such a
> website, so it's not a waste of time for other projects.

While lgw does not cover the LGA purpose, it matches the lga website. To be 
honest, from what I have understood, lga = lgw + create. If people thinks 
create does not works very well, I fail to see how having an "association" is 
going to magically solve any problem. Especially, considering that what create 
lack is mostly of animation.

Also, creating an association with no revenue seems to be a lot of 
bureaucratic work. In many countries, the main point of registering an 
association is to get access to a bank account.

Finally, I want to encourage any effort in promoting libre creative software, 
but I add my voices in the "there is already too many separated efforts, lets 
join force instead of creating new".

Or alternatively, lets create something really new.

I think the success of the blender foundation, both movies and/or tutorial dvd 
(like [1]) could give us ideas.
So we could create a magazine (available as PDF, and printed to people who 
want a paper edition, actually someone already started such a project, I think 
?), or a booklet that could be send as "commercial" to companies, a book 
(either tutorial, or a "story" book with illustration created with our 
software).
All done with free software. Then you can show the results to professional, 
and impress them. When I was a student, I participated in editing a student 
weekly newspaper, we managed to print in four colors using a two cylinders 
rotary printer, the seller was so surprised by the result that you could get 
with the machine, that he sent a few samples of our journal to the direction 
in Japan. This little story shows that if you do interesting things, you will 
get attention.
There is already an impressive pool of artists using our software, lets pull 
them together to create material that display the power of our tools. And this 
require someone with energy and time to coordinate, and would bring (in my 
opinion) more added value, that yet-an-other website.

[1] http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=122

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Cyrille Berger