The Libre Graphics Meeting

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From: David Neary <dneary@free.fr>
To: Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel@graphics-muse.org>
Subject: Libre Graphics Meeting
Date: 17 Sep 2005 14:18:24 +0200


Hi Michael,

I don't know if you've been following things recently, but there's a 
conference in the planning for next March called the Libre Graphics 
Meeting (originally GimpCon 2006).

It'll be in Lyon, France, the 17/18/19 March 2006. So far (and it's 
early days) we have people coming from, and for, Blender, Inkscape, 
Scribus, and of course the GIMP. I also have interest from developers in 
littlecms and Krita. It's going to be a full-on free software graphics 
love-in. 2 days of talks, BOFs and tutorials aimed at the general public 
(graphics professionals and amateurs in particular), and a completely 
freeform day where we'll just see what happens.

The most interesting to see will be how the developers from the various 
projects interract and letting developers get a good feel for how 
artists are actually using our software.

Oh - and it's still unconfirmed, but we may have the world exclusive 
first viewing of the short film resulting from project Orange 
(http://orange.blender.org). Which is nice.

So anyway, just wanted to let you know, and ask if you could maybe 
spread the news? We don't have any website yet other than the GIMP wiki 
at http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/LibreGraphicsMeeting but that's changing fast.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
bolsh@gimp.org
Lyon, France
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Michael J. Hammel - mjhammel@graphics-muse.org - XEUS: www.ximba.org
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