Monthly Archive for May, 2009

LGM’09 aftermath

It’s been almost week since I’m back from LGM’09. Jet lag finally got me on my way back (8 hours between timezones), for the first time in my life. Am I growing older then? :)

I’m currently busy writing reports and sorting photos, but for now just few things:

  • lightning talks are great and should be used further, but in some cases we still need long talks
  • all talks in one room is good — everything is recorded
  • more time for BoFs is good, we need even more of that
  • BoFs should probably be recorded as well, at least audio
  • we need all the attention of local designers and content producers we can get — publish articles in local thematic magazines perhaps?
  • if we get this attention, we should better organize selling of books on using GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus and Blender (Blender movie DVDs too?) for little to no income, but publicity
  • we probably need some handouts for free software — something in the lines of LGM’07 newspaper, but smaller
  • we need a better academic track by all means

For the latter I think we should track scientific papers that relate to libre graphics tools.

Ay, and a small photo teaser for our LGM Flickr group :)

Dave Crossland

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