[CREATE] LGM2011 Launch Timings + pledgie drive

[Louis Desjardins]

2011/2/21 jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org>

> Great thread, awesome ideas! I like the theme for the conference
> LGM2020 :) hahaha or LGMFUTUREZ. Can the ideas in this thread be
> distilled onto the wiki by the weekend?
>
> March 1 is coming up. Femke, you are leading the panels right? I'll take
> one on.
>
> Nathan, can you help us craft some press for March 1? Messaging:
> future of libre graphics is in y(our) hands, pledgie drive, and call
> for participation
>
> http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference#Press
>
> Eric, and I, we are pulling together the fundraiser to launch on that
> date as well.
>
> Louis, how is the timeline?
>
>
> http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/6th_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_Montreal_2011#Timeline
>
> Cool?
>

Perfect ! :)

I will add more later. Just got back from a meeting at ICGQ where I could
visit the whole installations and then a meeting with Ginger at Studio XX.
Need to finish up some work at the office. Will be in touch soon !

Louis

>
> Jon
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Femke Snelting
> <snelting at collectifs.net> wrote:
> >> On 02/12/2011 06:32 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 02/12/2011 06:45 AM, Femke Snelting wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Not sure about needing less talks, but in favour of having a few
> >>>> well-prepared, moderated panels :-)
> >>>
> >>> +1
> >>> I would emphasize _well-prepared_. Better to have only one or just a
> >>> few as long as they can be "guaranteed" (disclaimer: nothing can be
> >>> guaranteed) to be top-notch. Keep the audience in mind.
> >>>
> >> I think "keeping the audience in mind" means if we can only come up with
> >> one or two topics worthy of panel discussion, we don't set up multiple
> >> panels just 'cause we can....  So are there concepts we can nail down?
> >> If so, I'd suggest we want to get those in order *before* opening up the
> >> call for individual submissions....
> >
> > For a 2nd panel I propose we discuss artist-developer collaborations:
> what
> > drives people with different interests in the same Libre Graphics
> software,
> > to productively work together?
> >
> > It relates to the recent post by Alexandre Prokoudine: Contributing to
> free
> > software projects (a must-read: "How can I help a free software project,
> if
> > I don’t code"
> >
> http://prokoudine.info/blog/2011/02/contributing-to-free-software-projects
> )
> > and also to LGM itself (Nathan Willis in response to LGM 2010: "LGM has
> > always placed more of an emphasis on connecting users and developers than
> > other open source conferences, but this year the difference that emphasis
> > made was more noticeable. It was not perfect; several artists and
> designers
> > mentioned informally that they would liked to have had more direct
> > discussions with the development teams about the future of the projects,
> but
> > did not find the opportunity." http://lwn.net/Articles/390572).
> >
> > Maybe Mushon Zer Aviv could be someone to invite to the table... He is a
> > 'designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY & Tel Aviv' and
> has
> > written and lectured extensively about Open Source Design. I don't always
> > agree but think his perspective is interesting for LGM ("Successful
> > open-source projects have always benefited from a mix of the two
> approaches,
> > a combination of openness and leadership. Finding a similarly nuanced
> > approach in other fields is required if we ever hope to extend the
> > open-source model beyond code."
> >
> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/09/01/the-case-for-open-source-design-can-design-by-committee-work
> > -- might help us understand why the recent Ubuntu re-design was
> outsourced
> > to a non-libre agency using proprietary tools?).
> >
> > Also we need an occasion to talk about why and how Scribus-developers are
> > currently re-coding the properties panel in order to facilitate
> > contributions by new types of contributors, and maybe why designers happy
> to
> > contribute to F/LOSS, don't like contests ;-)
> >
> > Femke
> >
> >
> > P.S.: ginger proposed a panel on "Exchanging workflows between F/LOSS and
> > artists". It's obviously linked (Mushon might actually be better suited
> for
> > that) so we need to figure out if there is not too much overlap and
> > subsequently merge or re-articulate.
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>
>
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