Re: [Gimp-developer] Organising a conference
Hi Marc, On Apr 23, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Marc Lehmann wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:17:41PM +0200, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blender people involved and make it a Free Graphics Con. One might want to change the text on http://www.gimp.org/donating/ then, which explicitly talks about gimp developers. While I am sure most donators don't care, some might, and it would be only fair to be straight about the usage of the money they donate. People donating money to the GIMP are donating it to the GIMP. I was making a suggestion about the scope of the event (if there is to be one), and not how the money people donate would be spent. In fact, my understanding is that since the money was donated to the GNOME Foundation for use to support the GIMP, the GNOME Foundation can only free up the funds for that use. Any such event would surely attract interest from companies willing to sponsor it. What having money does is give us a cushion to get people to the event that need to be there to keep the GIMP going forward. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary Lyon, France [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Organising a conference
On Thursday 21 April 2005 04:17 am, Dave Neary wrote: Hi all, A separate mail to talk about what we can do with the money we have now. It is certainly enough to start planning a GIMPCon, if someone is willing to put the work into doing that. If we do plan a GIMPCon, though, I would recommend being a little more open about it than the summit type events which we had in Berlin and at GUADEC. We should try to organise a couple of days of talks and demos open to the public, and why not get some Inkscape, Scribus, OO Draw and Blender people involved and make it a Free Graphics Con. If you are going to do a Free Graphics Con there are other projects that should also be involved. I would include CinePaint, Hugin, autopano-SIFT, panotools and enblend in the list of graphics projects to invite. There might be other projects that should be included as well. One candidate, if people are interested, would be to join up with Blender Con, which is planned for October, in Amsterdam. Just to be clear, I am not in a position to put time into this. If we are to have a GIMPCon this year, someone else will have to organise it. I have no problem being an intermediary with the GNOME Foundation for money, though. Cheers, Dave. pgpltMYghwfzr.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Gimp-developer] Organising a conference
Hi all, A separate mail to talk about what we can do with the money we have now. It is certainly enough to start planning a GIMPCon, if someone is willing to put the work into doing that. If we do plan a GIMPCon, though, I would recommend being a little more open about it than the summit type events which we had in Berlin and at GUADEC. We should try to organise a couple of days of talks and demos open to the public, and why not get some Inkscape, Scribus, OO Draw and Blender people involved and make it a Free Graphics Con. One candidate, if people are interested, would be to join up with Blender Con, which is planned for October, in Amsterdam. Just to be clear, I am not in a position to put time into this. If we are to have a GIMPCon this year, someone else will have to organise it. I have no problem being an intermediary with the GNOME Foundation for money, though. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
