2011/2/21 [email protected] <[email protected]> > Great thread, awesome ideas! I like the theme for the conference > LGM2020 :) hahaha or LGMFUTUREZ. Can the ideas in this thread be > distilled onto the wiki by the weekend? > > March 1 is coming up. Femke, you are leading the panels right? I'll take > one on. > > Nathan, can you help us craft some press for March 1? Messaging: > future of libre graphics is in y(our) hands, pledgie drive, and call > for participation > > http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference#Press > > Eric, and I, we are pulling together the fundraiser to launch on that > date as well. > > Louis, how is the timeline? > > > http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/6th_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_Montreal_2011#Timeline > > Cool? >
Perfect ! :) I will add more later. Just got back from a meeting at ICGQ where I could visit the whole installations and then a meeting with Ginger at Studio XX. Need to finish up some work at the office. Will be in touch soon ! Louis > > Jon > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Femke Snelting > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 02/12/2011 06:32 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > >>> > >>> On 02/12/2011 06:45 AM, Femke Snelting wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Not sure about needing less talks, but in favour of having a few > >>>> well-prepared, moderated panels :-) > >>> > >>> +1 > >>> I would emphasize _well-prepared_. Better to have only one or just a > >>> few as long as they can be "guaranteed" (disclaimer: nothing can be > >>> guaranteed) to be top-notch. Keep the audience in mind. > >>> > >> I think "keeping the audience in mind" means if we can only come up with > >> one or two topics worthy of panel discussion, we don't set up multiple > >> panels just 'cause we can.... So are there concepts we can nail down? > >> If so, I'd suggest we want to get those in order *before* opening up the > >> call for individual submissions.... > > > > For a 2nd panel I propose we discuss artist-developer collaborations: > what > > drives people with different interests in the same Libre Graphics > software, > > to productively work together? > > > > It relates to the recent post by Alexandre Prokoudine: Contributing to > free > > software projects (a must-read: "How can I help a free software project, > if > > I don’t code" > > > http://prokoudine.info/blog/2011/02/contributing-to-free-software-projects > ) > > and also to LGM itself (Nathan Willis in response to LGM 2010: "LGM has > > always placed more of an emphasis on connecting users and developers than > > other open source conferences, but this year the difference that emphasis > > made was more noticeable. It was not perfect; several artists and > designers > > mentioned informally that they would liked to have had more direct > > discussions with the development teams about the future of the projects, > but > > did not find the opportunity." http://lwn.net/Articles/390572). > > > > Maybe Mushon Zer Aviv could be someone to invite to the table... He is a > > 'designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY & Tel Aviv' and > has > > written and lectured extensively about Open Source Design. I don't always > > agree but think his perspective is interesting for LGM ("Successful > > open-source projects have always benefited from a mix of the two > approaches, > > a combination of openness and leadership. Finding a similarly nuanced > > approach in other fields is required if we ever hope to extend the > > open-source model beyond code." > > > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/09/01/the-case-for-open-source-design-can-design-by-committee-work > > -- might help us understand why the recent Ubuntu re-design was > outsourced > > to a non-libre agency using proprietary tools?). > > > > Also we need an occasion to talk about why and how Scribus-developers are > > currently re-coding the properties panel in order to facilitate > > contributions by new types of contributors, and maybe why designers happy > to > > contribute to F/LOSS, don't like contests ;-) > > > > Femke > > > > > > P.S.: ginger proposed a panel on "Exchanging workflows between F/LOSS and > > artists". It's obviously linked (Mushon might actually be better suited > for > > that) so we need to figure out if there is not too much overlap and > > subsequently merge or re-articulate. > > _______________________________________________ > > CREATE mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > > > > > > -- > Jon Phillips > http://rejon.org/ | http://fabricatorz.com/ > chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon > +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) >
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