I think that the LGA/LGF/LGwhatever should have a strong website. Even if it would not really do anything, at least it could provide a platform for communication etc.
Jake On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Jon Nordby <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 June 2010 16:41, Camille Bissuel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > I do agree with your view, and I do know that I won't achieve anything > alone > > or even with a small group of interested people... > Everyone here that has experience from free software projects, or > other volunteer based activities know that words and dreams are cheap. > In the end it boils down to what people actually do and work to make > happen. The LGA will be nothing and do nothing without people doing > it. I'm going to answer from that standpoint, what I want to _do_. > > > So, ok, let's discuss it... To active contributors in LG projects : > > - Do you find this LGA project useful, and why ? > > - How would it be useful for you on a daily basis ? > > - Said simply : Do you need a LGA, or is it a waste of time and energy in > > your point of view ? > In the short term, I would like to make a website that serves as a > common face for the serious libre graphics projects, describing what > they do, and what libre graphics is. > I can provide content, and Norwegian translation. However, I consider > building the website itself to be outside of my area of expertise. As > already stated, I have libre-graphics.org. I also have a VPS that we > can host the website on. I'll also work to market this website, and in > effect the association. > A formal organization is not a requirement for this. > > In the longer term (6-12 months), I might work to get a training DVD > for MyPaint published. This depends on a lot of external things > obviously, but if I'm able to do that I would do it under the LGA > umbrella and hopefully create a foundation to make it easy for other > libre graphics projects to get things published as well. > This might benefit from having a formal organization backing it. > > What will, or would you like to do under an LGA umbrella? > -- > Regards Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create >
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