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The success of LGM Wrocław 2008 (Conference 2008 & Conference 2007) has inspired us all to work together on the next iteration of this conference. Please help fill in the information below to help shape the conference.

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Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 • May 6 to 9 • Montréal, Québec, Canada

Fourth annual worldwide meeting of teams developing open source graphics applications.

Where

Montréal

École Polytechnique in Montréal, Québec, Canada

École Polytechnique de Montréal
2900, boul. Édouard-Montpetit
Campus de l'Université de Montréal
2500, chemin de Polytechnique
Montréal (Québec) H3T 1J4

Access

Canada is asking people from many countries to have a valid visa to visit the country. Please check here if you need a visa to get to Canada.

  • It can take months to get your travelling documents so please plan ahead.
  • LGM organisation has no control over the delivery of Canadian visa.
  • If you need an invitation letter from the LGM organisation to get your visa, please contact the local organiser directly.
Airplane

Montréal-Trudeau International Airport YUL

Bus

Bus terminus: Station centrale d'autobus Montréal

Downtown Montreal
505 boul. de Maisonneuve Est
Montréal
Phone: +1-514-842-2281
The terminus is connected to métro Berri-UQAM

Train

Gare centrale (Central Train Station) 895, de la Gauchetière ouest, Montréal. The Gare centrale is located downtown near métro Bonaventure and métro McGill.

Car

Many highways lead to Montréal. From Maine, Vermont, New York, Ontario, the Maritimes, access to the city are numerous.

  • Parking is available at Polytechnique and at the Student Residences. More info to be posted later on cost and availabily.

Getting to LGM from the Montreal airport with the shuttle

L'Aérobus is the shuttle service from Montréal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to the Montréal Central Bus Station (Berri Terminal).

* Tickets for L’Aérobus are on sale at the Airport ticket kiosk.

The Montréal Central Bus Station has direct access to Montréal métro (our subway), station Berri-UQAM. See map of métro.

  • Look for the orange line, direction of station Montmorency.
  • Get off at Laurier, 3rd station from Berri-UQAM
  • Head towards the tail of the train when getting off as there are 2 exits, one at each end of the platform. You want Boul. St-Joseph Exit
  • Go upstairs and get on the queue for bus 51 that will bring you directly to the LGM site (See more detailed info in the section On your way to LGM below.)

We suggest you buy your public transport tickets or pass at Berri-UQAM. You'll save money and time. Consider taking advantage of the pass options (weekly or monthly) as they allow unlimited use of the buses and métro for the period. Ask for this at the kiosk, there is one in each métro station. Not at the airport, though. Montreal Public Transport Fares

People travelling by plane will most likely do the following :


On your way to LGM
1. Take the shuttle to downtown Montréal. 40-45 min
2. Disembark at the Bus Terminal and walk down to métro level. Buy your ticket or pass. See Fares: 5 min
3. Take the métro to station Laurier (direction Montmorency on the Orange Line). 8 min
4. Wait for the bus around 5-10 min
5. Take the bus 51 to LGM : get off at corner Edouard-Montpetit/Stirling. 20 min
6. Cross the street and walk to the residence and check in. 5 min
7. Get in your room. 2 min
8. Relax! Unpack. Take a shower. Connect your laptop. Say hello to your friends!
From the airport to your room, about 90 minutes.


On your way back home
1. Relax! Take a shower. Say goodbye to your friends. Disconnect your laptop. Pack.
2. Go down, uncheck and leave your key. 5 min
3. Take bus 51 (don't cross the street!) to station Laurier. 20 min
4. Wait for the métro. 5 min
5. Take the métro to Berri-UQAM (direction Côte-Vertu) 8 min
6. Buy your shuttle ticket up the stairs in the Bus Station. 10 min
7. Take the shuttle to the airport. 40-45 min
8. Disembark at the airport and say goodbye to Montréal!
From your room to the airport, about 90 minutes.

Getting to LGM from the airport by taxi

The taxi ride will mostly depend on the time you arrive. It can be from 25 minutes outside rush hours , and 1 hour or even a bit more between approx. 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM. There is a Flat Rate.

Tip: you can gather with other passengers and share the price of the taxi.

Press Release

Who

Organizers

LGM team

  • Main organiser: Louis Desjardins — email: louis.desjardins [at] gmail.com
  • Webmaster: Alessandro Rimoldi
  • Pledgie campaign: Alexandre Prokoudine, Jon Philips — email: jon [at] rejon.org
  • Video Capture: Kaveh Bazargan — email: kaveh [at] river-valley.com
  • etc.

What

LGM 2009 is the fourth annual worldwide meeting of teams developing open source graphics applications. Designers, graphic artists and anyone involved in print production and/or web development are cordially invited to attend and meet the developers one to one.

When

6-7-8-9 May 2009

Why

LGM 2006, 2007 and 2008 were big successes, we understood there is a need to continue the meeting in 2009. We want to gather developers and artists (users) of various creative applications from all over the world for close collaboration, learning and development.

How

Roadmap

  • Wed, Feb 18 at Noon EST
    • (DONE) LGM2009_Press_Release out to all outlets (nathan + rejon)
    • (READY, A_L_E Adding to site shortly) Website online with press release and possibly new logo
    • Begin soliciting donations from individuals and corporations
  • (DONE) Sun, March 10 at 11 PM EST
  • Sun, April 19 at 11 PM EST
  • Wed, May 6 - Sat, May 9
    • Conference!

Sponsors

Accomodation

  • We plan on having the most possible rooms accessible at a low cost in the Uni Residences — same as in 2007 — including Internet access in each room, in the attending meeting rooms, and downstairs, in the main hall of the Residences. Further details to come.

UPDATE 21 Feb.

Rooms will be available at a special LGM low rate including wired internet access and all taxes. Prices in CAD. Valid upon reservation made up to April 6, 2009. We are in the process of closing this deal. It will be possible to make reservations a little time from now. I will post the links and more package deals including breakfast and other goodies before the end of Feb. The info here is only there to help you figure out your budget. Cheers! — Louis 

* SOLO ROOM with Internet access: CAD $46 per night
* DUO ROOM with Internet access: CAD $58 per night
* COSY SUITE with Internet access: CAD $98 per night
* ROOM "MULTI" for 3 people (limited number of rooms): CAD $66 (to be confirmed)

Room reservation and booking — Please note that it’s each person’s responsibilty to book the room. LGM organisation only helps negociate a good price and manages to "secure" a block of rooms (still to be determined) so availability is not an issue.

Video/audio

  • We would like to record (video + audio) all presentations
  • Broadcast: we could want to broadcast the conference
  • Polytechnique can help on the technical/network side, including access to the the sound console in the main amphi, wired connexion, fixed IP.
  • We assume there will be someone in charge of the recordings. Please contact the organiser directly.
  • We’re going to need access to a remote server with enough bandwidth (external of Polytechnique)

LGM Website

  • We need a webmaster (not Louis!)
  • LGM website needs to be updated — please give access to the organiser for quick updates
  • We need a form to be filled for the participants, including personnal infos for transportation refunds
  • We could set-up a forum that could be online asap and we would use this during LGM for remote questions (this is a draft idea that needs to be digged a bit)

UPDATE: We have a website! Libre Graphics Meeting 2009

Social Networks and Press

NOTE: Jon Phillips 01:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC) I created these. I gave passwords to Louis and Dave Neary as well.

Administration

  • Gnome Foundation will be handling all the LGM money and will proceed with reimbursements as per LGM organisation team’s instructions
  • All the transportation receipts must be sent to Louis Desjardins. Pic, scan, PDF of ticket, all receipts clearly showing the price are ok. Please hold your original until reimbursement has been processed. There will be a short form to fill available on the website (on the todo list as of May 2nd 2009).
  • There will be only one list of people sent to Rosanna by the LGM organisation.
  • All reimbursement orders will have to be gathered before LGM 2009 ends.

There are three ways for the GNOME Foundation to send reimbursements. The first method is via PayPal. To transfer funds via PayPal, I need the following: 

- PayPal account name (the email address used to sign up with PayPal)
- Amount of reimbursement
- Copy of the travel receipt

If the recipient resides in the US, I can send a check. The information I need to do this is: 

- Recipient's name
- Recipient's address
- Recipient's phone number
- Amount of reimbursement
- Copy of the travel receipt

Technically, I can send a check overseas as well, but as the check is from a US bank, it is usually not the best option.

The last method is a bank wire transfer. The information I need to perform a transfer is as follows: 

- Account holder's name
- Account holder's address
- Account number (preferably IBAN)
- Bank name
- Bank address
- SWIFT code
- Currency of account
- Amount of reimbursement
- Copy of travel receipt

Presenters and Talks

Submit a Talk OR If you'd like to see other proposals, please look at the Conference Talk Proposal 2009 Category. If your talk is accepted, it will appear in the Conference Talk Accepted 2009 Category.

(Alphabetic order for now. Non-exhaustive list. Please feel free to add your project.)

* Please file in your project here so we can hold one or more slots in the schedule depending on your needs

  • Blender
  • Create
  • Fontmatrix
  • GEGL
  • GIMP
  • Hugin
  • Inkscape
  • Krita
  • Open Clip Art Library
  • Open Font project
  • OSP
  • Oyranos
  • Panini
  • PiTiVi [1] (presenter: Jeff, nekohayo at gmail)
  • Rawstudio
  • Scribus
  • Scribus Documentation Project (Gregory Pittman)
  • Sk1project
  • SVG 2.0 Specification
  • SwatchBooker project
  • Tango
  • Text Layout and Typography Working Group (aka "Text Layout Meeting") - [2]
  • VIPS (Virtual Image Processing System) (presenter: "Nicolas Robidoux" <nrobidoux@cs.laurentian.ca>)

Program draft

* Schedule proposal

  • Morning sessions (4): 9:00 - 11:15
  • Recovery time between sessions : 5 minutes
  • Lunch and meetings (no confs): 11:15 - 14:15
  • Short Confs sessions: 14:15 - 14:45
  • Afternoon sessions (5): 14:50 - 17:50
  • Afternoon break: 15:55 and 16:10
  • Recovery time between sessions : 5 minutes

Additional notes

  • Coffee break: 15:00 and 15:15
  • Short talks: 5 minutes
  • Regular talks: 30 minutes + 5 minutes of recovery time between sessions
  • The 3-hour lunch breaks leave time that can be used for team meetings
  • A supper or cocktail on the Thursday evening, from 18:30 in the Atrium of pavillon Lassonde

Available rooms

  • Main amphi
  • 3 adjacent smaller amphi
  • Open area: Galerie Rolland
  • For people staying at Uni Residences, main hall and meeting space on each floor

The main preoccupation here is to address one of the major concerns expressed by the teams during the past LGMs and give more room for teams to meet. Everyday, the 3-hour lunch break allows this. Plus, it can be extended for another half hour depending on how many short talks we have. All the meeting rooms are located within 5-minute walk.

Conference 2009 Schedule TBD

Achievements

each project values very much the chance of getting together once a year.

Hugin

  • creation of the panorama picture exhibit (has it been shown afterwards?)
  • setuped two GSOC projects
  • created contacts with the 3D visions laboratory from the University of Montréal (good to get the academics envolved)
  • interaction with other teams and most of all with Rawstudio

Gimp

  • BOF on resource tagging
  • enhancement of the roadmap

Scribus

  • intensive bug smashing leading to the 1.3.5 development version

Blender

  • thoughts about color management, especially for film.

the libre/open font community (Debian/Ubuntu font teams, OpenFontLibrary, fontmatrix, Dejavu, OSP typographers)

  • various good talks in the schedule tackling various font-related aspects
  • more people getting familiar with the open font design toolkit (via the open-font-design-toolkit metapackage or directly from source) including theming and scripting
  • feature demo and walk-through for fontmatrix: some bugs squashed, some new installation documentation for Debian/Ubuntu, many new ideas for the future
  • the TextLayout discussion/hack time between Jonathan Kew and Behdad Esfabod
  • very useful discussions around webfonts between open font community, W3C and browser vendors representatives
  • during the open font design workshop: 2 open fonts designed by OSP were finalized and prepared for upcoming release
  • the OSP software map was completed
  • interesting discussion with Ascender representatives
  • discussion on the business model around libre/open fonts
  • energy and drive to move the Open Font Library forward!
  • add your own here!

Rawstudio

  • meeting new and old friends.
  • two new features were launched during LGM2009. A new toolbox and a channel mixer - requested by Alexandre Prokoudine and Joel Cornuz.
  • talked about implementing CA correction with Lensfun - requested by Yuval Levy.
  • inspired by Michael Terrys presentation about ingimp - it would be very nice to get data about how our users use Rawstudio.

Inkscape

Past

Contact for Pledgie donation

France

Québec

World

LGM Projects

The logo

Licensing

We should have a proper licensing:

Which logo?

It would be probably good to have the logo fixed for a few years.

Louis suggests we ask Andy to pursue his work on the LGM graphics as he’s done a tremendous work for us this year. He would simply add to the specs that we need to address a couple of simple needs:

We need:

  1. A small version of the logo for various web use
  2. A banner for websites to show their support
  3. A printable version in SVG and EPS versions, color and black&white
  4. A color version for our website and our website banner
  5. A proposal for a t-shirt in one or more colors, bearing in mind we can use it on various t-shirt sizes

What we are missing now is really only a small version that would stand out in such a little size. We have made the point that simply reducing the splash logo was not really an option (too small... but OTOH the colored splash itself is pretty strong).

Professional comment: I think that once we have asked a designer to do this work and he or she has accepted to do it, we must leave it to this person’s judgement and responsibilty to make the calls on that work. What we want to avoid is a "committee creative session" and letting everybody enter the round and have a say. This will only lead to endless discussions, and will lead to frustration and confusion. We don’t want that. It’s creative work. This doesn’t mean we cannot comment the work but it certainly means that it’s the graphic designer’s responsibility and prerogative to complete the graphic web design and adjust it to the various needs we have.

Ale would like to add:

  1. It would be nice to have a version of the logo without "meeting" on it (i could have a use for it for my "Libre Graphics" booth at openexpo.ch and it would be nice to see it at rmll.info)
  2. It would also be nice to have an explanation/description to help people do variation of the logo for other uses (like preparing the website for LGM 2011)
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