[CREATE] [LGF] A name !

[Robert Martinez]

This all sounds really awesome!

"create" is absolutely great as others pointed out already!
If the SFLC has interest in helping us out this would rock!
They rock and have the needed expertise!

cool.

On 05/31/2010 02:56 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> here's an idea, take create and/or create foundation or whatever its
> called to sflc software conservancy (eben moglen's law firm) my friend
> bradley kuhn runs, and inkscape is a part of, and move create project,
> whatever libregraphics projects exist, and then that gives the
> benefits of a foundation without all the loads of work involved with
> creating.
>
> I can put that into motion quick, and it works super well!
>
> Plus, I got the hookup for us on that...interest?
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:49 PM, John Haltiwanger
> <john.haltiwanger at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Boudewijn Rempt<boud at valdyas.org>  wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, 31 May 2010, John Haltiwanger wrote:
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>>>        
>>>> 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.
>>>        
>> Point taken :)
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>>>> 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
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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