[CREATE] [LGF] A name !

[Jake]

I have to agree with Jon here. CREATE FOUNDATION is

- short (because you can just use "Create". Adobe is actually called Adobe
Systems too.)
- abstract (as it doesnt solely refer to artists, to programs, to whatever)
- easy to remember
- in my opinion possible to say with all kinds of language backgrounds
(right?)
- taken, OK, we would have to swallow that,
- sounding pretty nice (though its personal preference)


Create Foundation could be used in connection with designing, coding, even
creating music, because after all, what is it that we're all doing? We're
creating.


Jake




On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Camille Bissuel <cbissuel at yagraph.org>wrote:

> Whoosh, sounds there is a lot of interest in this discussion !
>
> In my opinion, we shouldn't try to embrace everything neither to be too
> specific... Think about the projects and people at LGM this year, and try to
> reflect that : we aren't hostile to musicians, but that's not the domain
> where we are fluent. On the other side, we aren't only artists nor
> designers.
>
> It's aim to be a cross project for "libre" drawings, 3D, webdesign, print,
> automating tools like Phatch, typography, scripting, etc... it will join
> different peoples (developers, designers and artists, and also teachers) in
> a common interest. The name mustn't exclude part of it, neither try to
> embrace the whole world ...
>
> maybe we can think to something more similar to "reclaim your tools" like
> the "free brush foundation" (Ok, it's stupid, but you get the idea).
>
> Hard exercise, but let's keep going the brain storming !
>
>
>
>
> 2010/5/31 Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de>
>
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 14:36 +0200, John Haltiwanger wrote:
>>
>> > Graphics doesn't include type.. And artists includes everyone.. So
>> > where do we find the best fit?
>>
>> I see no reason to exclude type from graphics and for all I know it is
>> not commonly done. In other words: graphics does include type, graphic
>> design does include typography, although a specialist in either might be
>> vary to call himself a specialist in both.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thorsten Wilms
>>
>> thorwil's design for free software:
>> http://thorwil.wordpress.com/
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> CREATE at lists.freedesktop.org
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
>


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:

> Create Foundation.
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 May 2010, John Haltiwanger wrote:
> >
> >> I guess I have an overbroad idea of what "design" means then... sorry
> for
> >> that. Is the Gimp a design tool? Is Inkscape? If not, then what is an
> >> example of a design tool?
> >
> > Gimp maybe, Inkscape definitely. Nodebox without a doubt. But I wouldn't
> consider
> >  making concept art, drawing comics, matte painting or making textures
> design.
> >
> >>
> >> Graphics doesn't include type.. And artists includes everyone.. So where
> do
> >> we find the best fit?
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Monday 31 May 2010, John Haltiwanger wrote:
> >> > > "artists" seems to me overbroad. Our tools are very much "design"
> tools.
> >> >
> >> > Erm, no. Apps like Krita and Mypaint are not design tools.
> >> >
> >> > > Perhaps it is not the best fit, but it is better than "graphics,"
> (due to
> >> > > including typesetting/typography) while Libre Artists Foundation
> sounds
> >> > to
> >> > > me more like a foundation to support the artists themselves rather
> than
> >> > > also supporting the tools (not saying that the foundation is not
> meant to
> >> > > support the community, just that the name should not point to one
> side
> >> > > over the other imo).
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > CREATE mailing list
> >> > CREATE at lists.freedesktop.org
> >> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > CREATE at lists.freedesktop.org
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
> >
>
>
>
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