Jan Claeys wrote: > What about s/Libre/Liberation/ or s/Libre/Liberty/ ?
honestly and directly: the concept of Freedom (and it does not matter what synonyms are being used) is overloaded, overburdened, and IMO far from central to what our tools are and do. I've experienced it once again when I dared putting my nose out of our small OpenSource community and publish the release of the newest Hugin source code in a larger community of panoramic photographers. They don't see Freedom as we do. To them, dealing with the source code is actually a burden. They rather be free from it than free to do it. They prefer freeware to Free software. As much as we love to lift the car's hood and fiddle with the motor, they dread it. And I am not interested preaching Freedom to them. > Or use "CLS" for "Creativity Liberation Suite"... ;-) > (It liberates your creativity in both artistic & philosophical ways!) I don't need to have my creativity "liberated". neither artistically nor philosophically. I do what I do because I want to do it. If my byproduct is useful to you, so be it. If it is not, I don't care. And if you prefer to pay Adobe for something that in my opinion is extremely limiting of my creativity, I am fine with that too. See what I mean? :-) Activism is uninteresting. It is time to mature beyond it. > You might want to set up some sort of a brainstorm session during LGM > 2010 about this... I don't think that a formal conference session in more than half year is required to spin some thoughts and give some feedback. We're not in the corporate world, or are we? I am shocked at the apathy *here* on this mailing list. Alexandre Leray has proposed a beautiful website for LGM2010 [0]. It introduces some radical design changes. I can't believe that only four people have an opinion about it. Is the silent majority just approving? or is it shell-shocked? How should we know? Alessandro Rimoldi has come up with a sensible proposal [1] to discuss, think in more detail, and codify a common graphic aspect for our projects. This should IMO also trigger some introspection and questioning about our purpose. It's nice to meet once a year, tap on each other's shoulder when showing / seeing the latest and greatest technical (and a few artistic) achievements of the year. And then? lethargy for the rest of the year? everybody on his own? What has LGM achieved that could not be achieved without it? I've only participated in 2007 and 2009, so I am not the one to judge. I am missing a constant flow, an ongoing, stimulating discussion. Something like on each project's mailing list, but at the meta level. have a good weekend Yuv [0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-September/002056.html [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-October/002059.htmlhttp://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-October/002059.html I don't think that going to a conference to discuss such a topic that can be discussed perfectly on a mailing _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
