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[Dave Crossland]

Hi,

I would like to see Libre Graphics Association on libre-graphics.org, as a
SFLC Conservancy project.

I buy Femke's rationale for 'association' over others, that's pretty much
where I was going with group/league but I'm a sucker for alliteration ;-)

Regards, Dave

On 2 Jun 2010, 1:00 PM, "Femke Snelting" <snelting at collectifs.net> wrote:

Hello :-)

Combing through this thread, and after some intense discussions with
Louis Desjardins, Pierre Marchand and others here in Brussels, I propose:

*Libre Graphics Association* [LGA]

In parallel, let's keep inventing slogans. It is a way to propose, discuss,
play, re-phrase what Libre Graphics mean to us. But we should by all means
avoid getting locked into a definition debate.

Re-reading Dave Neary's original description of LGM
http://dneary.free.fr/lgm06/ is one way to understand why sticking to Libre
Graphics is more than the easy way out.

Some more arguments:

*Libre*
- The only hard criteria for projects that we like to bring together, is
 that they contribute to a Free, Libre and Open Source ecology. The name  of
our organisation should refer to what sets us apart from proprietary tools
- Needing to explain what Libre means, is a feature
- The non-English "Libre" hints at international in a non-jetset way

*Graphics*
- "Graphics" can both refer to technology (colormanagement, curves, ...) and
to form (illustration, type, ...)
- It is a unobtrusive way to name a common interest of designers,
artist and designers
- It acts as a point of reference rather than a definition

Not having the libregraphics.org domain is annoying but not a reason to
change the kind of organisation we need. The part of the name that matters
to me most:

*Association*
- The Libre Graphics community is a network.

We should not want a Foundation.

The work of the Libre Graphics community brings together very different
goals, ideas, flavors, methods and perspectives. The energy buzz of LGM is
about seeing work that none of us could have imagined on our own. At LGM we
discuss standards and workflows for example. Not because we want to
constrain creativity, but because we want to participate in interesting
interfaces between developers, artists and devsigners.

Now LGM is growing away from an informal network, we cannot avoid imagining
some form of organisation that supports Libre Graphics or the Libre Graphics
Meeting long term. But however it plays out, we need to take care of the
diversity that drives this community.

A foundation exists to define and converge; an association can support a
network. I think it is a mistake to use this term for Libre Graphics, even
(or even more so) the organisation is legally set up as an association.

More about what that will mean is for the "whatever" thread!


Femke


P.S.: Sorry to not have participated in the BoF Camille organised. I would
like to contribute to the "development" of an organisation that supports
Libre Graphics and will get back to that once the practicalities of this LGM
2010 have been dealt with. Promise!

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