Forwarding:
http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/ April 2 to 5 in Leipzig, Germany
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Spreading the word Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:43:01 -0600 From: Nathan Willis nwillis@glyphography.com To: qgil@wikimedia.org
Hi Quim,
Random thought -- I don't know why this hadn't occurred to me earlier -- but are there Wikimedia people who would be interested in coming to Libre Graphics Meeting? Obviously you deal a lot more with the publishing side of things, while (historically) LGM has been focused on content-creation tools like Blender and GIMP.... But if there are Wikipedians who would be in the area, they might find LGM helpful for content-publishing stuff as well; in particular there are a lot of font and typography talks in recent years, thanks to CSS @font-face. For that matter, there is typically a lot of W3C and CC-licensing content in the mix as well. It's not just the app-development teams that make the event work; one of the best parts is getting the developers face-to-face time with the people using their stuff on a daily basis.
Anyway, to the point: LGM this year is going to be April 2 to 5 in Leipzig, Germany. The site is at http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/ .... If there are interested people nearby, we'd love to have them join us. Attendance is free; we try to underwrite travel costs for open source developers who attend (which we would also love to see Wikimedia take an interest in, of course :) -- tell your friends about the "donate" link!). But really I'm more interested in making sure we spread the word. If you use or build free creative-graphics software, there's something for you at LGM.
Think there'd be interest? Or do you know someone in the organization who might find it up their alley?
Thanks, Nate