Proposal Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 in Nürnberg/Nuremberg, Germany

[Lasse Fister]

Good news everyone!

I have an offer for a venue from Wednesday, May 28. 2025 to Saturday
31.05.2025. 

If there are no hard reasons to not have the conference on those dates,
I'd make the  it official. I know it's already late, next we need to
get the CFP out and make the event public, I'll keep you updated for
these tasks, also depending on the responses I get from this list.

Over the summer I tried to contact the universities in town, but that
was not fruitful, also I was pretty busy myself, hence there was some
delay caused by me. Recently, I changed the tactics to look for
commercial venues. My company (Strong Type Systems GmbH) will act as
the organizer btw. and it looks like I have the cost for the rent
covered with a sponsorship offer, so from that point of view we are set
up. I'm waiting for other venues to respond as well, before I make a
final decision, but I want to fix it soon. The venue has a capacity for
200 attendees at the presentations and enough options for workshops.

Best, Lasse




On Fri, 2024-08-16 at 23:37 +0200, Lasse Fister wrote:
> Hi Maria,
> 
> thanks for reaching out. I had contact to some SUSE employees at the
> recent openSUSE conference. They where open about a possible
> sponsoring. You can write me directly to talk about more specifics.
> 
> As for the venue, I'm currently waiting for a response from one of
> the universities (Ohm Technische Hochschule Nürnberg), I also have
> ideas for other possible venues, but nothing is fixed yet. I'm
>  travelling until September, but I can answer mails and be available
> for calls.
> 
> By the way I gave a talk at the openSUSE conference, the recording is
> available
> here: https://media.ccc.de/v/4718-rebooting-the-libre-graphics-meeting-in-nuremberg-2025
> 
> Best, Lasse
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2024-08-14 at 08:29 -0500, María Leandro wrote:
> > Hey all!
> > 
> > I have a friend working at Suse and they are interested in the
> > venue and probably some sponsorship if LGM happens at Nuremberg
> > next year. Who should I contact to get more details and help with
> > coordination?
> > 
> > El mié, 19 jun 2024 a las 0:05, Dave Crossland (<dave at lab6.com>)
> > escribió:
> > > Hi all
> > > 
> > > Just to clarify, this year, the sole sponsor was the Font Bureau,
> > > a major client of Strong Type Systems (Lasse); not Google.
> > > 
> > > While I work as an employee for Google on the Google Fonts team
> > > (and Google, via the GF team, has been a direct sponsor of LGM in
> > > the past), Google was not involved in the sponsorship of LGM
> > > 2024. I helped flag the opportunity to the Font Bureau. 
> > > 
> > > Why did the Font Bureau sponsor LGM? First, it had the fortunate
> > > ability to do so: It is hardly a secret that the Font Bureau has
> > > had major deals and earned good money from both Google and
> > > Monotype in recent years, and has released a number of libre
> > > (typo)graphics software projects (mostly github.com/fontbureau
> > > with some at github.com/googlefonts), including a medium sized
> > > web app for testing WIP fonts that Strong Type Systems (Lasse)
> > > has developed, "TypeRoof", in addition to libre fonts
> > > commissioned by Google (Roboto Flex, Amstelvar). I believe the
> > > development of Variable Fonts support within app graphics apps,
> > > including Libre Graphics apps, is important strategically for
> > > Font Bureau, and I understand Lasse, Liam, Nate and others
> > > discussed advancing such Variable Fonts support during the LGM.
> > > Also, since the principal at Font Bureau, David Berlow, was
> > > unable to attend events outside the USA this year, having the
> > > videos online is a direct benefit for FB too – so, similar to
> > > previous years with Google's sponsorship for this purpose, since
> > > the videos were enabled by the sponsorship, the descriptions
> > > credit Font Bureau.
> > > 
> > > For me, next year is harder to predict, as Font Bureau may be
> > > winding up, with David's upcoming retirement; and Google has many
> > > headlines about its cost-cutting efforts starting with layoffs.
> > > Still I will be sure to flag the opportunity to anyone I think
> > > may be interested. If Google is not interested, similar to Font
> > > Bureau this year, perhaps one or a few folks working on various
> > > projects for Google Fonts may be in a position to sponsor
> > > directly.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > Maria Gracia Leandro
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