Hi Louis, can we keep the discussion on a single mailing list, please? I guess most lists copied will bounce this message back because I am not subscribed there. Let's use [email protected]?
The Hugin community is generally positive about collaborating with SAT. I had contacts with René Barsalo because we are interested to access their amazing dome for research purposes and to show artwork created with Hugin, if possible in an exhibit open to the general public. Technically, our creative process (and thus our LGM presentations) does not really require the dome until the artwork is exhibited. Those presentations can be held in a traditional setting. Our interest is to: * learn about the dome * showcase art from our community I am thankful to René for giving me some access to the display last week. After one hour with Louis-Philippe I have a basic understanding. I need more details to optimize Hugin's output for the dome. Ideally we'd love to hack at the dome, but I understand it is now run by proprietary software, so the possibilities seems quite limited? To showcase art from our community we were thinking of either an art exhibition, or a contest amongst our user community with sponsored prizes and possibly access to the general public (and public voting?). The rest we can do at the main site, since working with Hugin and the current development can all be shown in a conventional setting. And maybe we can even *print* some of our community artwork to exhibit at the main site? From my experience at LGM2007, there will be parallel tracks, and Hugin attracts only a very small part of the LGM audience. I suspect that faced with the choice, most people will stay on the mainstream track at Poly and the SAT track will be deserted. I personally would find it very limiting to spend the day at SAT with Hugin and Blender only while so many interesting things are going on at Poly. IMHO the strength of a collaboration with SAT is to reach out to the general public. Not to the coders and users, i.e. not to the natural LGM public. The synergy LGM-SAT is IMO the fact that many of the coders and users are already on location. But the target audience is IMO different: coders and users for LGM; the general public for SAT. This is why I proposed René to piggy-back either the day before or after LGM. We can show together immersive artwork (both Hugin and Blender, photographic and generated) "after-hours". SAT people are natural LGM public and they can come to LGM's main site for everything but the presentation of their dome. IMO one slot / off-site presentation of the dome is enough, and ideally it would be at the end of one day. If I am faced with the choice of spending one day at SAT with Hugin and Blender only; or to spend it on a mainstream track with GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus, my choice is for the mainstream, sorry. And I will ask to hold my presentation at Poly. I'm at LGM for more than just the immersive stuff. Turn around the 360° often enough and centrifugal forces will appear... Yuv Louis Desjardins wrote: > Hi all, > > This is an exploratory email for all teams participating at LGM. There are > more questions than answers and everything is in discussion at present time. > In the end we need the input of each team. Here's the punch! > > I had a very productive discussion with René Barsalo at the SAT on Monday > about next LGM. Summary: > > For next LGM we could have at least two projects working a full day at SAT: > Blender and Hugin. The SAT immersive projection equipment would be available > to both teams for direct work, hacking, presentations, etc.. Starting at > 11:00 the day would be followed by a LGM "5 to 7" where all the teams would > gather for a beer. > > So far we have thought of Thursday to be that day. So, second day of LGM. > > We need to know if this would appeal to the development teams of Hugin and > Blender. > > Although I trust this event can only add to the interest of LGM, and also > noting that this is in no way competing with Polytechnique's facilities — > only a big plus to have the SAT in Montreal and to have LGM in Montreal... I > think we need to find out if there are any objection to this proposal. > > I ask Blender and Hugin people to step in. Guys! Tell us what you think. To > all other, please do the same! Speak up! > > Cheers! > > Louis > LGM 2009 main organiser > Montréal GMT -5 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
