[CREATE] Pre-LGM 2011 activities

[jon at rejon.org]

Cool, are we fleshing out the conference on draft pages on the new
website or are we using the wiki for baking the plans before they go
live?

http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference

We also have this for tracking specific issues:

http://launchpad.net/create-project

We need to keep our ducks in line.

Jon

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:45 AM, ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca> wrote:
> I've got Studio covered. In talks at the moment about logistics and what
> level of support we can expect. Now we just need some people to propose
> workshops :)
>
> -ginger
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:40 AM, celine celines <celinecelines at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Femke,
>>
>> Brilliant!
>>
>> I was going to contact Studio XX, glad they are open to host workshops. We
>> can add a page on WP LGM about these workshops and describe them so that
>> people can register to them.
>>
>> Awesome!
>> Céline
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Femke Snelting <snelting at collectifs.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Louis,dear list
>>>
>>> We've been thinking about how and what pre-LGM activities to organise in
>>> the weekend of 7-8 May.
>>>
>>> First of all: are there already any concrete agreements with Foulab? I am
>>> asking because StudioXX has agreed to make their workshop spaces plus
>>> equipment available for the weekend. It looks like the
>>> Let's-Talk-About-Tools-exhibition can take place at StudioXX as well (more
>>> news about that soon from ginger), so that seems convenient. In addition,
>>> StudioXX has multiple computers available, dualboot Ubuntu. What do you
>>> think?
>>> One of the spaces available:
>>> http://www.studioxx.org/newsletter/images/BanniereBulletin58.jpg
>>> About the exhibition and debate:
>>> http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/?page_id=2
>>>
>>> As for the program, we were thinking to host a maximum of three workshops
>>> (one or two on Saturday and one on Sunday) and to have the public jury
>>> discussion Sunday at 17:00 and vernissage of the exhibition Sunday at 20:00
>>> -- as close as possible to the start of LGM itself on Tuesday.
>>>
>>> We'd like these workshops to be a mix techniques, tools and concepts and
>>> they would run about four hours each. We thought it could be interesting to
>>> extend the "Let's-Talk-About-Tools"-theme in relation to the debate and
>>> exhibition. The workshops would be aimed at art- or  design students plus
>>> creative professionals interested in F/LOSS; a maximum of 15 participants
>>> per workshop.
>>>
>>> OSP is ready to take on one of the workshops (we're still brainstorming
>>> about what we would like to do and we would like to connect to one of your
>>> proposals), so ... is there anybody here on the list planning to arrive
>>> early that wants to take on a workshop?
>>>
>>> It would be interesting to work on the tools-theme through illustration
>>> or animation for example, but I can also imagine a digital Pattern Making
>>> workshop with Susan Spencer ... or something mixing imposition, binding and
>>> mapping with Tom Lechner ... or exploring the idea of manuals-before-tools
>>> that came up here earlier ... or ...
>>>
>>> best!
>>>
>>>
>>> Femke
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Celinecelines
>> http://celinecelin.es
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