2011/2/12 Femke Snelting <[email protected]> > Hello > > (let's keep ginger, our other local in the loop and/or should we discuss > this on CREATE?)
The Create list is perfect for that. We also have a few more people in Montréal : Celine Celines, Aline Crédeville and Christina Haralanova who should be able to enter the dance ! So it's better to keep the discussions on this track I think. > > > I think better then to keep in lock-step about that plan. For the >> talks, we know about it, shorter time means higher quality...and in >> the end, its a bit of ballot box stuffing on getting talks...one thing >> that would be really nice is to make cuts on talks too! and/or >> recommendation for updates on other talks...at some point, just >> accepting everything allows noise. >> >> 2011 will be the raise of the panels ! :) (so less noise !!!!) >> >> Less talks, more meetings and scheduled team and among teams meetings >> too. That way, we really meet ! >> > > Not sure about needing less talks, but in favour of having a few > well-prepared, moderated panels :-) Femke ! It's a reality. We have 4 days and so many hours. If we organise panels of 90 minutes we'll have 3 less “talks“ for each panel but we gain a panel. What we do not want is spread the people in 2 or 3 tracks. Plus, scheduling the teams’ meetings will also pave the road to more exchanges. > > > Yesterday when we talked I put the idea of having a design contest for >> LGM. We'd open it soon, close it about 2-3 weeks before LGM starts, pick >> the best 15 projects (we would ask people to use any open source tool >> and produce a printable poster of 24“ X 36“ that I would print at my >> office). The pick for those 15 would be made by the people voting and >> then for the last call, to determine the winner out of the 15 >> semi-finalists we could have a jury (?) made of (?) professionals, >> teachers (tbd) and then we have a winner and possibly a prize (?) — a >> Linux box filled with the software ? Thinking out loud... Those posters >> would be all over the place in Galerie Rolland at Polytechnique so we'd >> own the place graphically ! :) >> > > Louis, have a look at the titanpad/notes on wiki -- we described a possible > scenario: ginger and me talked extensively about your offer to print posters > and we felt it is a great idea. We both prefer to rather invite people to > make posters available as free content (including sources!) and than have a > discussion about them @ LGM (not a contest), to pick a few for printing and > to feature others in Libre Graphics Magazine. Maybe re-discuss with ginger > next week; we're ready to organise it and make it interesting for different > types of participants. Nice. The idea of a contest was actually something we discussed with Celine and was actually a derivative idea of the work done by Yuval in 2009 — remember those incredible panoramas ! If we don't want to call that a contest but we have a jury... isn't that a bit of two contrary ideas? Designers are completely driven by contest btw. For artists, it's a different thing. Anyway, I do not wish to argue too much on that. I guess that the prize is to be published and showed at LGM. But again, will that be enough to gather the top designers? Just a side note about the numbers: 15 posters to be printed in the magazine, this is a lot, Ginger. Unless you put a few per page? The cost for printing one poster is something. The cost for printing them in a magazine is something else. Only a thought, since money is an issue ! Whatever we call this, the idea is to have a series of outstanding designs made with open source software. :) Cheers! Louis > > > > Femke : closing the call for talks ~3 weeks before LGM sounds >> reasonable ? >> > Friday April 22? >> > > ok, great! > > F >
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