Today 5 OSPs travel to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, to participate in Open Design Week. Alex, John, Pierre, Pierre and Stéphanie will be touring through the Mekong Delta to meet up with local F/LOSS fans through workshops, presentations and an exhibit…
At LGM 2010 in Brussels, we met Hong-Phuc Dang, a young Vietnamese woman full of energy, willing to organize events around Libre Graphics in Asia in addition to her involvement in FOSS/ASIA, a meeting around Free and Open Source Software. We can’…
What the first half of the new OSP-year looks like from here: January Start with a bang: Monday January 3 all OSPs gather for a Scribus experiment. You’ll hear more about once we get there! Antoine from l’École Estienne, Paris joins us for…
H E Y ! Libre Graphics Magazine #1 is out ! Bravo Ana, ginger, Ricardo + the whole team and participants. Follow the details about the production process and order soon your copy from their blog.
H E Y ! Libre Graphics Magazine #1 is out ! Bravo Ana, ginger, Ricardo + the whole team and participants. Follow the details about the production process and order soon your copy from their blog.
We’re busy closing the books on LGM 2010 and soon deciding where to go for LGM 2011 (Brasil? Montreal? Vietnam? Follow the discussion at: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create) so we almost did not notice that it’s only a ver…
During LGM 2010, Ana, ginger and Ricardo (+ a.l.e and Femke) edited, designed and published Libre Graphics Magazine #0. You can download it here: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/download/lgmag_00.pdf
Constant pictures: http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=32177 Overview of pictures + posts: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/index.php?p=en/review Video registrations: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm-2010
Preparing badges for LGM-participants
More pictures: http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31913
This sunny Sunday afternoon, Ricardo, ginger, ale, Ana and Femke gather in the Constant office backyard to get ready for LGM arriving in town.
Wednesday 26 May *** A day with: ginger coons, LUST, Akkana Peck & OSP
Introduction + discussion: De Pianofabriek
Workshops: Various locations
A day before the international Libre Graphics Meeting starts, art/design students and their teachers are…
Here are snapshots of SILEX-LEX round 1. Artists, designers and illustrators experimented with Inkscape, a Rhizograph and each other’s layers. Round 2 follows next week in preparation of the vernissage on May 7.
Was it volcanic dust? Or something else? Important documents that were mailed weeks ago from Brussels to Moscow unfortunately never arrived. Today we sent them again by courier to make sure this indispensable LGM-participant will be able to get a visa for Belgium in time.
All we can do now is wait and hope they arrive [...]
Deadline: Saturday May 1
Please submit your talk for LGM 2010 at: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2010/Submit_Talk
Here is the latest press-release:
San Francisco and Brussels, Thursday 15 April 2010 – The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual working conference for the free software graphics application community. Developers from the full spectrum of graphics applications — image editors, photography, 3-D and 2-D [...]
Exhibition: 8 May → June 4 2010
Opening: May 7 18:00-21:00
De Pianofabriek, Fortstraat 35, 1060 Brussels
What if a team of talented artists, illustrators, graphic designers and graffiti writers starts working with Free, Libre and Open Source softwares for the first time? What if their trials and errors are printed on the Plus-tôt-Te-Laat Rhizograph and then handed [...]
We asked your opinion: Should the logo we proposed for the Libre Graphics Meeting drip or not? 50 readers voted, and yes was selected in total 51 times and no 34 times (more than one answer possible). Apart from that, strong opinions were voiced on- and offline. Interestingly, these often were against the drip. [...]
Remember that we entered a subsidy dossier in October 2009?
The Design and Architecture committee of the Flemish ministry for culture has decided to grant our application and support LGM 2010.
Besides the fact that any financial support is more than welcome in hard times like these, it is above all an encouraging expression of support for [...]
Alexandre Leray has written a nice tutorial on how to create your own pledgie-badge: http://rw.stdin.fr/CookBook/Pledgie
Thank you ginger coons for your tasty habanero pepper and don’t forget to donate to http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926!
Anything else we can do to make you donate a few dollars to LGM2010 ?
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At the yearly Libre Graphics Meeting, developers and users of our favorite tools get together to work on better software. For some of them, a trip to Brussels is easy to fund, others cannot afford the journey without our help. Let’s pull our resources together and raise 10.000 $ (7350 €) so that they can [...]
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010!
Download flyers: cuttingedge.zip
After heated debates, intensive collaborative working sessions and many hesitations, OSP feat. Alexandre Leray finally proposed a new identity for the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting to the Libre Graphics community.
Since the next meeting will take place in in our home town Brussels, we felt that it was important to at least try to shift [...]
After heated debates, intensive collaborative working sessions and many hesitations, OSP feat. Alexandre Leray finally proposed a new identity for the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting to the Libre Graphics community.
Since the next meeting will take place in in our home town Brussels, we felt that it was important to at least try to shift [...]
← This letter proves that we just handed in a dossier at the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sport and Brussels (Vlaamse Gemeenschap). With Constant colleague Peter Westenberg, OSP wrote an application to ask for support for the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010. There is only a very small chance that it will make it (LGM is [...]
27 – 30 May 2010 in De Pianofabriek, Brussels
Still nearly 9 months to go, but preparations for a next edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels have started.
In our quest for the ultimate LGM 2010 venue, we checked out many potential spaces, but finally settled for De Pianofabriek [...]
[en français, voir ci-dessous]
Next spring, the fifth Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) will take place in Brussels, Belgium. In May 2010, users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source creative software gather in the European capital for the collective sharing of creativity, innovation and ideas.
About the Libre Graphics Meeting
The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite [...]