[LGM] media planning

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Nathan Willis wrote:

> Sure; I suppose I was thinking more about FOSS pdocasts like FLOSS Weekly or
> The Changelog. Although I only follow the English ones....  Actually we
> probably should just start a formal list that anyone can add to.
>
> Do you have a list of web forums you pay attention to?  Same goes there; I
> know what a bunch of them are, but I also recall being surprised to learn of
> the vinyl-cutting ones you knew about in the vinyl-cutting-app story, so
> compiling a list seems helpful there, too.

Are you OK about editing a shared Google Docs spreadsheet?

>> > - Robofab: I genuinely did not know this was an open source project
>> > until
>> > one week ago; they periodically cross paths with the open source
>> > community
>> > on the type forums, but inviting them would potentially start a much
>> > better
>> > conversation
>>
>> I tink you have more direct contacts than me here :)
>>
>> How about Makerbot? They recently got one of Blender developers as an
>> employee, and I run into varios OSS code relevant to Makerbot all the
>> time.
>
>
> I actually don't have contacts with Robofab, but I don't mind reaching out.
> Makerbot would be interesting as well.  I can think of some other
> hardware-related projects that *might* be interesting (camera triggering
> controllers, for example)

That, and Apertus Axiom.

> -- although, that _could_ grow fast enough to overrun us with Open
> Hardware stuff, since it's such a hot commodity at the moment.

Sure :)

> I think in all three of these cases, it would help to have a note from the
> organizers/hosts in order to make it clear we're not asking without
> permission.  Maybe I'm just more concerned about EditShare, since they have
> had some near-arguments about their open source strategy on the discussion
> forum.

Yep, unfortunately, our Spanish hosts haven't spoken so far. Er, hello?:)

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org