[LGM] What participants want from LGM2013

[Femke Snelting]

In this years' registration form we included the following question: "What would you like to happen at LGM2013?"
So far, 96 people signed up. Below are their answers!

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"Learn a lot, discover new things to learn, meet amazing people, and hack a lot, maybe create something new"
"I would like many things for future tools, mainly online and for mobile devices. In my part I will try to construct a site to make tutorials or courses where the participants of the LGM can create and publish with text, video, quizes for students to follow."
"Inspiring futures for paper and for contents!"
"I am looking forward to the workshops to get hands on experience and learn about new tools and new things happening in the Libre Graphics community. I would also like to meet people to see how I can contribute more."
"Que nos presentaran una visión panorámica de lo que el futuro puede traernos"
"I would love to improve the link between design tools and developers. We should be able to bring the design community into the open source community and make them participate improving with their vast experience the current and future tools. We need them as much as they need us!"
"I would like to: Meet Carlos Lopez Gonzalez (Synfig developer) and have a coding sessions together, Meet Nina Paley (artist) for discussing the technologies of animation in Synfig, Meet other artists, have a discussions with them and promote the Synfig as the animation tool, Have a lot of fun"
"I dont kow!!"
"Interesting dialogues + creation of international work groups + manifesto"
"Conversations about tool development, perhaps experiments with emerging input hardware."
"get in touch and talk with interesting people"
"Collaboration on new visions on free culture. Let's hack reality."
"Great connections, intellectual interchange, collaborations, discovering of new tools and strategies, meeting wonderful people"
"Meet all the nice people in real life that I hang around with in IRC all day."
"Achieve synergy, meet professionals seeking solutions."
"Presentations on Blender tools"
"more interaction tools and collaborations in digital and visual projects, more proposals to resolve social problems, we could have a more solutions for this."
"To learn, to share, to meet, to know... : )"
"I would like to obtain Future Tools! No, seriously I don't know. This is my first Libre Graphics event. I guess I wish to meet various interesting people, to discover nice projects, graphics tools or workflows I had no idea of, and that I may wish to use in the future."
"three.js libray and Dart language"
"A Panel/Meeting on teaching FLOSS+Art/Design in formal education"
"Looking forward to meet passionnate people, spend time with a few folks I already had a chance to meet (Ale from Scribus team, OSP people, Dave Crossland), discover Medialab Prado and Madrid. I also have an idea for a lightning-talk concept: an open session where FLOSS users (not programmers!) would present their most exciting personal idea for a not-yet-existing feature. In 4 minutes."
"Development of tools and ideas that really help us to manage with this new reality, this new era of creativity, production and sharing."
"I would love to hear the latests abt open source designing tools, know new ones and maybe try some hands-on of some of them."
"May be we need a powerfull html5 UI software"
"I would like to redesign the tools we use to describe what happens in our minds, whatever. I think the tools are closed and in this era we have to keep the tools open to use and to hack it in our view to size it to our use and no in the other way"
"Me gustaria asistir para aprender mas sobre las herramientas de diseño bajo software libre, concer a los artistas libres en el mundo, colaborar y participar en los proyectos que necesiten de ayuda."
"Me gustaría aprender mas sobre las herramientas y su desarrollo para el diseño bajo software libre, de igual manera aportar y colaborar en los proyectos que necesiten de ayuda, para así al regresar a casa poder compartir toda esta experiencia con nuestros compañeros y sumar mas personas que puedan participar y colaborar de algún modo en el desarrollo de estos proyectos."
"aprender mas sobre las herramientas de diseño bajo software libre, y aportar y ayudar en los proyectos que vayan a surgir durante el evento"
"I would like to translate all darktable manuals to spanish, since I have found in it, not only an awesome tool, but also something that has been really helpful to my work. I have already translated the app, so the next step is to go for the big task."
"Meeting with other like-minded people to discuss color management in Linux."
"provocative but rather short presentations. informal workshops and hacking sessions"
"Meet interesting minds and share knowledge and ideas. Learn about new possibilities and strategies using Open Source software in the creative field. Get in contact with participants interested in creative collaborations. Exchange contacts and get back home with new and inspiring ideas to work with in the present/future."
"I'd like to see the current status and future plans of Libre Graphics tools. I have a special interested in tools that help designers and creators collaborate."
"exchange of ideas and knowledge"
"Some great connections between people from the different Free projects coming there."
"I'm interested in animation so it would be nice to see some Open Movies presentations: Tears of Steel? Morevna demo? Also, some lecture about financing open productions."
"A science fair! and a couple of hackathons to launch new tools or improve existing ones during the conference!"
"A round table on the theme Future Tools with users and makers of F/LOSS software. Presentations and lightning talks, workshops and all that jazz!"
"Developers deciding to form development businesses (non profit, co operative, or more traditional) so libre graphics tools are developed in a timely, high quality process that responds to (paying) users rather than developers whims."