<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(102,102,102)" class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666">Hi Sam!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666">I'll be at LCA.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666">Did you propose a miniconf?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666">I proposed one too, for open fashion including hands-on demos using the software and equipment.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666">Good luck to you!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666">If yours is accepted, I can help you with setup, teardown, & general comraderie.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666">Susan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#666666"><div style="display:inline" class="gmail_default"></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Susan Spencer</div><div><font size="1"><i>Chair <a href="https://fashionfreedom.eu" target="_blank">Fashion Freedom Initiative</a><br></i></font></div><div><font size="1"><i>I'm offline on Wednesdays to do all the things and on weekends to do all the other things.<br></i></font></div></div></div><div><font size="1"><i><br></i></font></div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Sam Muirhead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam@cameralibre.cc" target="_blank">sam@cameralibre.cc</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I'm in New Zealand, and keen to take this on :) Thanks for the prompt!<br></div><div><br></div><div>I wasn't planning to attend LCA due to this year's focus on Internet of Things, which has no crossover with my interests, but I didn't even consider the idea of an LGM miniconf...<br></div><div><br></div><div>I will submit a proposal in the next day or two. If anybody else is keen to be involved, please get in touch!<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>----<br></div><div><span style="line-height:1.5">Sam Muirhead</span><br></div><div>Open Source / Video<br></div><div><a href="http://cameralibre.cc" target="_blank">http://cameralibre.cc</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jul 29, 2018, 12:05 PM by <a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com" target="_blank">nwillis@glyphography.com</a>:<br></div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="m_-1676764596198117755tutanota_quote" style="border-left:1px solid #93a3b8;padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div><div>...now's the time.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I realize this is short notice, but what can you do. <a href="http://Linux.conf.au" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Linux.conf.au</a> (LCA) has its call for papers open for just a couple more days: <a href="https://linux.conf.au/call-for-papers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linux.conf.au/call-<wbr>for-papers/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The event itself is January 21 to 25, 2019.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In addition to the regular session submissions, though, people can propose one-day 'miniconfs' for addition to the schedule. Approved miniconf organizers are then responsible for putting together their own program. They are typically single-topic-focused events, and holding one on libre graphics would certainly be a great opportunity for the LG community to engage with a totally different audience than the one that habitually frequents LGM itself.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Several folks on this list have put together similar libre-graphics-day tracks at other local, community events in the past, most recently at SCALE in Los Angeles, and they're always enthusiastic and interesting. So if anybody is in the Australia / New Zaeland region (or likes going there), and feels like giving it a shot, this is the chance.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please note that I'm not volunteering to do that: it really would need somebody who's either in the area or is already 100% sure that they'll be at LCA. I've been a couple of times in years past and it's a great community, but it's quite a trip for a lot of us on certain other continents....<br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, just tossing that out there. I don't think you'd have to have anything close to a complete plan in place (like what speakers/sessions you'd have); this is just the deadline for proposing a miniconf in general.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Nate<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><div><div>nathan.p.willis<br></div><div><a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nwillis@glyphography.com</a><a href="http://identi.ca/n8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </div></div></div>
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