Hello CREATErs! Why not start the new year right by giving a talk about Free Software for artists! There will be a Libre Graphics track SCaLE 16x this year! That's right, a whole day of nothing but talks about graphics applications. The one-day only graphics track is on Friday, March 9, 2017 - 10:00 to 17:00 at the Pasadena Convention Center in the Los Angeles, California area. Submit your talk ideas to Please submit your proposal to graphics-cfp@socallinuxexpo.org. We welcome all sorts of submissions, from application tutorials, workflow, new projects, developer focus talks, and any other interesting topic you can come up with. We'll probably be organizing a photo walk around the lovely city of Pasadena as well. There has also been discussion of a booth on the expo floor to promote our applications. The deadline for submissions for speaking are January 10th (sorry for the short notice). We'd love to hear all the ideas! Hope to see you there. :D Here is more info: The libre graphics community is a collection of artists, projects, developers, and users that strive to bring first-class tooling and processes to those who work with images in its many forms: photography, digital painting, pixel art, glitch, and more. Many libre graphics applications are cross-platform, running on Linux, Unix, Windows, and macOS. Libre graphics @ SCaLE will present talks designed for a general audience of users and developers. Talks will vary in subject matter from tutorials and workflows to project announcements and packaging. When: Friday, March 9, 2017 - 10:00 to 17:00 SCaLE 16X – the 16th annual Southern California Linux Expo – will take place on March. 8-11, 2018, at the Pasadena Convention Center. SCaLE 16X expects to host 150 exhibitors this year, along with nearly 130 sessions, tutorials and special events. SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area.