<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear all, </div>Same for me. I am always available remotely. I sadly missed the last 3 LGMs and I miss you all a lot. If anything, I will try to be as responsive as I possibly can. However, you can count me out for any task for the next months. Please remove my name from the Sponsors' page on the website. I am busy with family issues and with work. No extra time for me. </div>Long life to LGM and hope to meet you again maybe next year! </div>Cheers! </div>Louis </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2017-04-24 6:44 GMT-04:00 Femke Snelting <<a href="mailto:snelting@collectifs.net" target="_blank">snelting@collectifs.net</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 23/04/17 23:03, Frank Trampe wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> There's been some discontinuity recently with the LGM administration, and, as discussed at the meeting today, we need to be sure that whatever people assume responsibility for global and local organizational tasks next year have the benefit of learning from those who have filled those shoes previously. So, if anybody (particularly Femke or Joao) has anything to share (task lists, lessons learned, ...), this would be a good time to have that discussion. </blockquote> Hello Frank, and everyone, Nice to follow bits and pieces of LGM from far and thanks for taking up some of the organising energy. Most of all happy that the hot potatoe of financing and funding does not come last this time, I am also glad to see that the SPI direction is back on track. Unfortunately, I have not been available for contributing to the organising of LGM this year and will not be until spring 2018. My apologies for this drop-out; I am of course available to discuss, consult or hand-over. I am not sure where to start on task lists or lessons learned (it has been ten years of local and global organizing after all) but maybe in addition to the overview of 2015 by ginger, these meeting notes might be a good place to start: <a href="https://titanpad.com/lgm-organisation2017" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://titanpad.com/lgm-organisation2017</a> <a href="https://titanpad.com/lgm-organisation2016" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://titanpad.com/lgm-organisation2016</a> <a href="https://titanpad.com/lgm2015" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://titanpad.com/lgm2015</a> <a href="http://lgm2013.titanpad.com/4" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lgm2013.titanpad.com/4</a> (Exports attached, as Titanpad will be closing end this year) Some of this and earlier work has been logged here: <a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/lgm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/lgm</a> And before that: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110825014309/http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20110825014309/http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Main_Page</a> And last but not least a pretty inspiring list of 'single sentence manifestos' written in 2016 at the organisers meeting in London. all the best, Femke * LGM is a congregation of artists, developers and enthusiasts for graphics, video, design and publishing free software, engaged in sharing ideas, work and teaching. * LGM is about tools to create Libre culture. (Ale Gonzãlez) * an understanding that the tools we use, shape the artistic work we create * A meeting of people involved with developing & using libre graphics to do professional quality work, with a focus on showing what can be done and on building what can't. * LGM is the meeting where you find representants of all FLOSS related with arts. * A tribe of diverse voices and interests gathering around talks, workshops and empowering activities related to visual, graphics, processes and tools all published under open licenses. * Libre Graphics Meeting provides an opportunity for artists, designers, and engineers to exchange ideas and to demonstrate products so as to make each more capable of building, creating, and communicating. * LGM is the annual, in-person gathering of users and developers of the free-software graphics community, where the people involved exchange ideas, collaborate, and share what their work for the ultimate enrichment of the community as a whole. (Nate Willis) * LG(M) is a meeting place - of people and projects; online through the year and physically manifest somewhere on the planet once a year. Where directions and voice operators, dreamers and crafters of cultural; visual digital media technologies converge or collide. * an annual release of a year's pent-up joy, excitement and agony which those who don't use F/LOSS could never understand :) * An occasion to expermiment with possible connections between creative users, creative developers and creative activists caring about Free, libre and open source software. * The Libre Graphics Meeting is a gathering of people from the software and art spectrum. It fosters communication and the exchange of ideas with a strong focus on free software tools. (Simon) * intersections in free software. an extensible meeting of many perspectives - in, on and around - the implementation, culture and practice of FLOSS * The one time in the year when programmers, developers and users of for free and open source software for graphics are leaving their virtual communities and make huge progresses. (ale) * A place to meet and hangout with the people who are involved with/ make, cool tools that I use, and complain about all the things I want to get fixed. * LGM is a collection of artists, designers, and developers coming together based on principles of Free Software (and (Open) Culture) to share their work and experiences with each other and the public. 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