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
Might want to run this by some of the multimedia team -- could be good opportunities to coordinate with folks working on dynamic graphing libraries etc.
-- brion On Jan 16, 2014 11:15 AM, "Quim Gil" qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
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 -- nathan.p.willis nwillis@glyphography.com mailto:nwillis@glyphography.comhttp://identi.ca/n8
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