On 4/18/10, Femke Snelting wrote: > We've now focused on art-schools because we feel there's a great > potential for F/LOSS LG to make a breakthrough now. Students and > teachers are really ready to see a shift. Description for this will be > up soon.
I'm sending a post to blendernation right this minute to try getting studios using Blender commercially on board. > There's a small exhibit opening one month *before* the conference with > experimental work done in F/LOSS (Inkscape). Does libregraphicsmeeting.org say that? :) > * Keep the buzz going – my feeling is that there is not enough going on > in between conferences. > > still not ;-)? I'm afraid so :( > * BoFs should probably be recorded as well, at least audio > ok, we need some kind of scheduling for this to make sure someone is there. > > I agree but would prefer taking minutes (audio being hard to process > afterwards; maybe as back-up?) so I am working on scheduling this. Any > volunteers that want to help record one or two? I'll see If I can get my digital voice recorder to work :) > * we need all the attention of local designers and content producers we > can get — publish articles in local thematic magazines perhaps? > > You might get more of those than you can handle ;-) We've mobilized > quite a network of designers from France, Belgium and The Netherlands. Sweet :) > * if we get this attention, we should better organize selling of books > on using GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus and Blender (Blender movie DVDs too?) > for little to no income, but publicity > > We are keen on setting up a bookshop. So: don't forget to bring your > books to sell or showcase. We'll make a stall with books and printed > matter people can leaf through and look at; if you have books or other > graphical objects made in F/LOSS, please bring! Maybe Blender Foundation wants to participate? IIRC David's "Chaos and Evolutions" digital painting course should be ready by the time conference starts. > * we probably need some handouts for free software — something in the > lines of LGM’07 newspaper, but smaller > > There's some people working on a nice magazine I heard :-) Yep :) > * we need a better academic track by all means > > I guess you mean Computer Science / HCI? There are already quite some > academics from Media Studies and cultural studies involved, Excellent! > * For the latter I think we should track scientific papers that relate > to libre graphics tools. > > Would be interesting to know of more sources. The least we could do is > draw up a reading list? There is a rather dead page in CREATE's wiki on that. P.S. Just a reminder: handsfree mics for people giving talks like last year in Montreal :) Alexandre _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
