Might want to run this by some of the multimedia team -- could be good opportunities to coordinate with folks working on dynamic graphing libraries etc.
-- brion On Jan 16, 2014 11:15 AM, "Quim Gil" <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding: > > http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/ > April 2 to 5 in Leipzig, Germany > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Spreading the word > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:43:01 -0600 > From: Nathan Willis <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > > > Hi Quim, > > Random thought -- I don't know why this hadn't occurred to me earlier -- > but are there Wikimedia people who would be interested in coming to > Libre Graphics Meeting? Obviously you deal a lot more with the > publishing side of things, while (historically) LGM has been focused on > content-creation tools like Blender and GIMP.... But if there are > Wikipedians who would be in the area, they might find LGM helpful for > content-publishing stuff as well; in particular there are a lot of font > and typography talks in recent years, thanks to CSS @font-face. For > that matter, there is typically a lot of W3C and CC-licensing content in > the mix as well. It's not just the app-development teams that make the > event work; one of the best parts is getting the developers face-to-face > time with the people using their stuff on a daily basis. > > Anyway, to the point: LGM this year is going to be April 2 to 5 in > Leipzig, Germany. The site is at http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/ > .... If there are interested people nearby, we'd love to have them join > us. Attendance is free; we try to underwrite travel costs for open > source developers who attend (which we would also love to see Wikimedia > take an interest in, of course :) -- tell your friends about the > "donate" link!). But really I'm more interested in making sure we > spread the word. If you use or build free creative-graphics software, > there's something for you at LGM. > > Think there'd be interest? Or do you know someone in the organization > who might find it up their alley? > > Thanks, > Nate > -- > nathan.p.willis > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]><http://identi.ca/n8> > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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