[CREATE] Pre-LGM 2011 activities

[Femke Snelting]

> I've got Studio covered. In talks at the moment about logistics and what
> level of support we can expect.

Thanks for setting that up ginger :-)

> Now we just need some people to propose
> workshops :)
>
> -ginger

Yes!

Keep mailing your ideas to this list or add them to: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Pre-LGM2011-weekend

I see now it is better to have 3hr sessions instead of 4hr and of course we should mix developer and designer participants; that's the whole point.
Will add more details over the coming days -- aiming to have titles and tutors sorted out in ten days or so.

F

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:40 AM, celine celines <celinecelines at gmail.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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