Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-19 Thread ricardo lafuente
On 2/16/10 15:07 , Stani wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:45 PM, a.l.eale.comp...@xox.ch wrote: hi femke stani Besides shoebot and phatch, which other projects present at LGM2010 are relevant you think? mypaint (developed in python: martin plans to attend) and scribus (uses python for

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-17 Thread Tobias Jakobs
De Pianofabriek venue serves food and drinks from local and fair trade vendors only (and is currently working with us on getting some of it sponsored for LGM2010) So I think it would be difficult for them to stomach Pepsi as sponsor :-) That sounds indeed better then Pepsi. Tobias

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-17 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Stani wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:45 PM, a.l.e ale.comp...@xox.ch wrote: hi femke stani Besides shoebot and phatch, which other projects present at LGM2010 are relevant you think? In the font design toolkits (both open and somewhat restricted) plenty of scripts and tools also use

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-17 Thread a.l.e
hi De Pianofabriek venue serves food and drinks from local and fair trade vendors only (and is currently working with us on getting some of it sponsored for LGM2010) So I think it would be difficult for them to stomach Pepsi as sponsor :-) That sounds indeed better then Pepsi. hi

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-17 Thread Jon Phillips
LCA in new zealand did the final day of the conference, after all the sessions, with a powerful burst of activity with tables and for the public to come in and learn about open source. I appreciated it, because it allowed for focus, discussion, and time to be there rather than needing to be in

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-16 Thread Tobias Jakobs
Hello, On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:46, a.l.e ale.comp...@xox.ch wrote: do you think that pepsi would be an acceptable sponsor? http://www.refresheverything.com/categories/arts-and-culture Why not? If they are interested, we shouldn't reject any money. Tobias

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-16 Thread Stani
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:45 PM, a.l.e ale.comp...@xox.ch wrote: hi femke stani Besides shoebot and phatch, which other projects present at LGM2010 are relevant you think? mypaint (developed in python: martin plans to attend) and scribus (uses python for its scripts: i don't think there

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-16 Thread Dave Crossland
FontForge also added extensive Python scripting support, and is now a python module.. import fontforge Regards, Dave On 16 Feb 2010, 3:07 PM, Stani spe.stani...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:45 PM, a.l.e ale.comp...@xox.ch wrote: hi femke stani Besides ... Besides the

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-16 Thread Femke Snelting
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:46, a.l.e ale.comp...@xox.ch wrote: do you think that pepsi would be an acceptable sponsor? http://www.refresheverything.com/categories/arts-and-culture Why not? If they are interested, we shouldn't reject any money. euh ... De Pianofabriek venue serves food and

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-16 Thread Kai-Uwe Behrmann
Am 16.02.10, 18:04 +0100 schrieb Femke Snelting: De Pianofabriek venue serves food and drinks from local and fair trade vendors only (and is currently working with us on getting some of it sponsored for LGM2010) So I think it would be difficult for them to reads good. stomach Pepsi as

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-15 Thread Stani
Hi, I got a reply from Steve Holden, the chairman of the PSF (Python Software Foundation). The next meeting of the PSF will be 8th of March. So a proposal will need to be submitted a few days before. I'll talk with Steve Holden this weekend at Pycon in Atlanta to discuss possibilities. If you can

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-13 Thread Femke Snelting
For me: I'd rather sit 2 days on my own spot demoing Blender, than doing a 1 hour talk. It gives groups a nice own hangout, and it stimulates inter-group interaction better too. +1 for the own spot, in parallel to a single track of presentations. I think we can make this work in the space

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-13 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi Femke, Space outside is great, but not really for computers. :) I would consider this: - make a reservation for space and put table+chairs there. Divide it in units of about 3m x 3m. - offer groups for a friendly extra price a workstation and/or 24 inch flatscreen rental - make sure

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-12 Thread Jon Phillips
If we do, we should do like lca and only do for a short burst of 3 hours. Jon Phillips us. +1-510-499-0894 cn. +86-134-3957-2035 http://rejon.org http://fabricatorz.com On Feb 12, 2010 10:21 AM, Ton Roosendaal t...@blender.org wrote: Hi, Is there space on LGM for a Market or so? Whether

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Ton, Ton Roosendaal wrote: Is there space on LGM for a Market or so? Whether commercial or noncommercial, many people (who do really interesting work!) are not so much interested in speaking or big demos, but would love to be able to hangout full days on a table with a computer on

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-12 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi Jon, Can you explain this ica event, why it worked so well? For me: I'd rather sit 2 days on my own spot demoing Blender, than doing a 1 hour talk. It gives groups a nice own hangout, and it stimulates inter-group interaction better too. You won't see me easily going to a Inkscape talk,

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-12 Thread Yuval Levy (CREATE)
hi all, On February 12, 2010 06:17:48 am Ton Roosendaal wrote: For me: I'd rather sit 2 days on my own spot demoing Blender, than doing a 1 hour talk. It gives groups a nice own hangout, and it stimulates inter-group interaction better too. +1 for the own spot, in parallel to a single track

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Yuval Levy (CREATE) wrote: @ List owner: can this list be configured to reply to list itself? been there, asked that, agree with you that it is the better of two less-than- perfect choices to encourage participation/contribution. When I asked a couple of years back, Jon shared the

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-12 Thread a.l.e
hi dave, @ List owner: can this list be configured to reply to list itself? been there, asked that, agree with you that it is the better of two less-than- perfect choices to encourage participation/contribution. When I asked a couple of years back, Jon shared the admin password with

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-12 Thread Jim Watters
Now that I have updated to Thunderbird3 the current method works fine. I click Reply List to send to everyone, or Reply to send to the original person. Reply List does not add the originator. If changed I don't care as long as the original person that sent the email is still listed so I can

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-11 Thread Stani
I contacted the Python Software Foundation informally as I hope they might be interested in sponsoring. If I get a positive answer, it would be nice if a more formal request could be made. I'll be at Pycon in Atlanta next week, so I will be able to talk directly to them about it as well. Best

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-11 Thread Jon Phillips
Excellent. Guys, I'll be traveling mostly tomorrow, but will get on things this weekend so we can try to do our push next week. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Stani spe.stani...@gmail.com wrote: I contacted the Python Software Foundation informally as I hope they might be interested in

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2010-02-11 Thread Simon Budig
Stani (spe.stani...@gmail.com) wrote: I contacted [...] Another idea that occurred to me earlier is to contact the people running shapeways ( www.shapeways.com ). They have a significant non-pro userbase where people are *very* interested in Blender for creating 3d models for 3d-printing. On

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2009-11-04 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Tuesday 03 November 2009, Dave Neary wrote: * KO GmbH (developers of OpenOffice, including Krita) Er... KOffice, and though I personally am the maintainer of Krita, that's outside KO GmbH. I am also afraid I have to warn that any sponsorship from us is very unlikely. There simply isn't any

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2009-11-04 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Tuesday 03 November 2009, Dave Neary wrote: General benefactors: * Stichtige NLnet * Mark Shuttleworth (no harm in trying again, and with Ubuntu Studio, there might even be a business case to be made for Canonical) * Acquia maybe? Commercial Linux multimedia companies (free software)

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2009-11-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Femke, Femke Snelting wrote: Before getting drawn into the LGM programme, I would like to ask on a practical note for your experience in financing the event ... My rule has always been set a target, fundraise until you meet it, and then stop - there's lots of important stuff to do. For the

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2009-10-26 Thread Jon Phillips
Ok sure, taking this offlist since private stuff is not for public consumption :) Jon On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Femke Snelting snelt...@collectifs.net wrote: I would start with a figure for how much needed, how much for developer travel since this is what we normally do to get people

[CREATE] LGM 2010: sponsoring

2009-10-23 Thread Femke Snelting
Before getting drawn into the LGM programme, I would like to ask on a practical note for your experience in financing the event ... How can we start getting sponsors to fly/train people to Brussels? It's not the kind of thing we are used to so we need your help :-) Who is interested in