Forwarding:
http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/
April 2 to 5 in Leipzig, Germany
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Subject: Spreading the word
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:43:01 -0600
From: Nathan Willis <nwillis(a)glyphography.com>
To: qgil(a)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
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