On miércoles, 7 de marzo de 2018 21:16:35 (CET) Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 20:38:25 CET Paul Brown wrote: > > On miércoles, 7 de marzo de 2018 20:08:12 (CET) Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > > I'm not him, but I will be going there. The LGM isn't much of an event > > > for > > > project banners though, at least the last few times I visited. It's > > > small- > > > scale. The focus last times was very much on people doing alternative > > > high-brow art stuff with free software, > > > > But that is fine, no? A sign of maturity. I understand there should be a > > place where developers should go and compare notes and learn from each > > other, but an event where you showcase the capabilities of the software > > and > > can draw in and end user community must be good. > > Ahm... No, that's not what happens, mostly. At least, not last time I > attended. You won't find many people who actually produce some art that > other people would recognize. It's all fun and quite interesting, but it's > not like people show off what you can do with gimp or krita or inkscape or > blender -- it's where people show the results of their art academy final > project or experiments. Check out http://conversations.tools/ > > I missed quite a few editions, though. It was in places that were too far > (Rio de Janeiro), or I was too much pre-occupied with keeping going. The > program for 2018 isn't done yet, and speakers haven't yet had confirmation > of acceptance. > > But it usually is fun, mostly friendly and in any case, it'll be my vacation > this year. > > > What is this event like? Talks? Demos? Booths? > > There are talks and workshops, in my experience no booths. No space where > you'd put up a promo banner, at least, I've never seen those: but I'd still > want one for Krita!
Absolutely. It is re-usable, so it makes total sense. It would've been good for FOSDEM, where they had the artist doing the Krita demo. Next year, then. > LGM is extremely small, actually, and has been shrinking for some time. It's > not a place where people come to see you present your software project > (although that does happen, it's not encouraged), rather, everyone is > supposed to already know about most relevant projects, and there's one > introductory presentation called the "State of The Libre Graphics Union" > for which every project can submit some slides, usually presented by a > gimp/gegl developer. Okay. I have just told a faculty member at the School of Fine Arts of Málaga about the event, and he is going to see if they can organise a trip to Sevilla. They have also agreed to get in touch with other Fine Art schools from around Andalucía. If they get their act together, I will contact the organisation and see if, at least for one year, we can reverse that trend. > Not that we actually know which event Baptiste was talking about! True. Interesting conversation nonetheless. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity
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