[LGM] very late (too late?) talk proposal

[C R]

Hi. I very much appreciate the interest. I'm honoured to be chosen for a
spot in the talks, and following that I wanted to have a compelling
presentation put together. Part of my problem is time restriction. I have
overcommitted myself, and have to weigh the tradeoffs in terms of time and
benefit to the meeting.

On the one hand, I could spend my time preparing (in haste) the
presentation I've started, and come out with something reasonable to show.
It would show my roll as a commercial designer who switched to FOSS, which
is a success story, and may also serve as a list of new software to try out
for those attending who are designers.

In order to do this, I'd probably have to drop the state of Libre Graphics
entries for the GIMP and Inkscape projects.

I think this is too big a sacrifice for too little gain. I would rather not
rush and present something better at next year's event, and follow through
on my commitments to projects greater than my own. :)

So yes, please replace my talk with the John's.

I will happily present next year instead, if the interest is still there. :)
If I manage to get everything done in time, I may do a lightning talk
instead (can you advise the cut-off date for that?).

It will be great to see everyone there, regardless. :)

Thanks very much for your compliments and interest in my work.
See you at LGM. :)

-C





On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Femke Snelting <snelting at collectifs.net>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Are you sure you prefer to cancel your talk? We selected it because we
> were interested in hearing from you, and scientific content is not
> necessarily a criterium for the meeting!
>
> Of course, if you prefer to contribute in another way, you are welcome
> too. Can you let me know as soon as possible, so we can update the program
> (or not)?
>
> best,
>
>
> Femke
>
>
>
> On 02/28/2016 08:19 PM, C R wrote:
>
>> It sounds way better than what I have. I've been having second thoughts
>> about presenting mine. I need to finish State of Libre Graphics vids for
>> the GIMP and Inkscape projects anyway, this is a great opportunity to
>> concentrate on those instead.
>>
>> In short, you'd be doing me a favour to take my spot. So please do. :)
>>
>> Cheers.
>> -C
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 6:31 PM, <jcupitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 28 February 2016 at 18:12, C R <cajhne at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi. Given the scientific nature of the proposed talk, I will give up my
>>>> space for it, if it's okay. I consider a talk about vips much more
>>>>
>>> important
>>>
>>>> than what I have to say.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'd feel very bad if anyone dropped out because of me, please don't do
>>> that!
>>>
>>> Perhaps I could give a couple of lightning talks instead? RTI
>>> (relightable photographs, a kind of  single-lens 3D) is fun, if you've
>>> not seen it before, and it's all being done with free software. I can
>>> show some demos.
>>>
>>> I work at Imperial College in London doing medical imaging research
>>> with free software, I could do a gruesome 10-minute talk on that plus
>>> a demo.
>>>
>>> I've done quite a bit of work on server-side image processing for web
>>> sites, things like virtual microscopy and very fast resizing image
>>> proxies. I could show that stuff too.
>>>
>>> If any of that sounds interesting, please let me know.
>>>
>>> John
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