Conference 2007

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LGM 2 Conference

Who

Developers and artists

Developers and artists of various creative applications Including, but not limited to:

Blender 3D
GIMP - (GIMP people register here)
Inkscape
Krita
Scribus
Open Clip Art Library
Open Font Library
FontForge
other projects...

What

Follow-up conference post Libre Graphics Meeting 1 in Lyon, France, March 2006 for artists, producers and artists

When

May 4-5-6 2007

Where

École Polytechniquein 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

A T T E N T I O N VISITORS — VISA — Canada is asking people from many countries to have a valid VISA to visit. Please check here if you need a VISA to get to Canada Canada's website ENor site web du Canada FR

Please plan ahead. It can take time to get your travelling documents ready. We have no control over this.

Airplanes

Montréal-Trudeau International Airport YUL (previously known as Montréal-Dorval) Montreal-Trudeau EN Montréal-Trudeau FR send fresh flower Check here for airplane companies coming to Montréal

Buses

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.

Trains

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

Cars

Many autoroutes (highways) lead to Montréal. From Maine, Vermont, New York, Ontario, the Maritimes, access to the city are numerous. Coming from the south, you'll want to connect to "Autoroute 15", coming from East or West, you'll want to connect to either one of "Autoroute 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50".

Getting to LGM

1. Access to LGM from the 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, station Berri-UQAM.

Take the orange line going in the direction of station Henri-Bourassa.
Get off at Laurier, (3rd station from Berri-UQAM)
At station Laurier head towards the back of the train when getting off the métro as there are 2 exits, one at each end of the platform. (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 below.)

It is suggested that you buy tickets at Berri-UQAM. You'll save a bit of money and also will save time when taking public transport. If you plan to stay a little longer in Montréal it might pay to take advantage of the pass options (weekly, 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.

You can access to École Polytechnique by métro or by bus.

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. 5 min

3. Take the métro to station Laurier. 8 min

4. Wait for the bus around 5-10 min

5. Take the bus no. 51 to LGM : get off at corner Edouard-Montpetit/Stirling. 20 min

6. 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 1 hour 30 min

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 1 hour 30 min

2. Access 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. 3:30 PM and 5:30 PM.

You can gather with other passengers and share the price of the taxi.

HOTELS

We have settled an LGM deal with the Student Residences on the site of LGM. The residences are at less than 5 minutes from your bed to the auditorium! All rooms have internet access.

Les Studios Hôtel - Université de Montréal, 2450 boul. Édouard-Montpetit, Montréal, QC, H3T 1J4 info@studioshotel.ca Phone: +1 514 343-8006 Fax: +1 514 343-8076 Online registration Please select Event: LGM2 when making your registration. You do not have to select a package (we actually have negociated a better price than any of the proposed packages).

Warning about online registration

1. The confirmation system by email is currently down. Confirmation emails are sent manually, so we kindly ask you to be patient. It should not take more than 24 h before you get this email from the staff at Studio Hôtel. If you don't, please contact Louis Desjardins by email (louis dot desjardins at gmail dot com). The reservations themselves are taken into account by the system.

2. LGM participants have the opportunity to book as early as the 2nd of May (3rd is better as students are leaving the residence during that week) and can stay longer after LGM for the same special price per night.

* * *

Private rooms at $46 CAD per night Taxes included. This includes single bed, bedroom sink, phone, internet access, (toilets and showers are outside the room). Cosy Suites (limited number) at $103 CAD include private shower and toilet, a double bed, fridge, phone, bedroom sink.

Other goodies included for all: laundry rooms, each floor has 10 rooms + either a Cosy Suite or a Salon. The Salon can be used as a meeting room. LGM participants will also have access to 3 other rooms in an attending building for meetings.

It will be appreciated if you can book your reservation before April 1st. After that date rooms will still be available but it will be more difficult to group people together on one or two floors.

If you want to live outside the campus, there are lots of hotels in Montréal. We will not make any recommandations on hotels. It is suggested you look for hotels located downtown or in Plateau Mont-Royal near the following metro stations : Place-des-Arts, Berri-UQAM, Sherbrooke, Mont-Royal, Laurier.

Access to LGM is through the métro, station Édouard-Montpetit or Université de Montréal (blue line) or by bus circuit no. 51 Édouard-Montpetit (which connects to métro Laurier). See above section for details.

UPDATE - April 4

We do have lots of single rooms left at Studio Hôtel but we ran out of "Cosy Suites". For those interested we have found another 15-20 rooms available nearby (a 10-12 minutes walk from LGM) at a special CAD $99 + taxes but including wireless Internet access at Terrasse Royage Terrace Please don't forget to mention in the Company name or in the Notes field (one of the 2, your choice) "Libre Graphics Meeting 2007" to benefit of the special low price. These rooms are private, with private bathroom and Internet access. Please refer to the Terrasse website for all the details.

Why

To bring together developers and artists of various creative applications from all over the world for close collaboration, learning and development.

How

Conferences and talks in the main auditorium at École Polytechnique

Team work sessions in smaller rooms near the auditorium

Meeting between the teams and discussions on common issues for better integration/worflow

Meeting between developers and users from the graphic world

Friday Night Supper-Conference and happy "get together" for all the participants at Société des Arts technologiques

Publication of a Special LGM Brochure to be distributed to all Grafika subscribers with April 2007 Issue. We currently aim at a 4-color process bleed tabloid-size 16-page brochure entirely done using OSS. People wanting to help are most welcomed. Please contact me at louis [dot] desjardins [at] gmail [dot] com with subject reference « LGM Brochure ». Or simply add your name to this wiki and I will contact you. More info to be posted soon (before end of January).

The texts for presenting applications should look as follows:

a. What sort of program is it (mention at least one commercial app that matches the purpose)?

b. A short history. This is important, because it helps to explain why an FOSS project is vital and succesful while others are not. Moreover, almost all of the shining FOSS graphics projects have a history similar to Linux, especially Scribus, which is certainly appealing to people who aren't aware of the achievements of FOSS projects. It would be fine if each project could tell a funny or remarkable, but in any case entertaining story. Remember: for the intended audience this will be the first contact with FOSS alternatives. A good (but true!) story is more likely to stick than a list of features. Technical details can be discussed and obtained at LGM or elsewhere. Thus, techno babble has to be avoided, as has marketing language. Tell a good story, then add, in a self-confident manner, the rest.

c. Outstanding features (not all, but a few remarkable ones)

d. Success stories (3 at maximum)

e. Prospects for the future (what can users expect from the teams?)

f. Speaker(s)/talks at LGM

g. Links (downloads, developers, mailing list, Wiki, roadmap etc.)

Recording the sessions

Recording the sessions will be important.

Our host, École Polytechnique, may be able to provide recording hardware and related facilities, and we hope to know more in the next few weeks. If you are able to bring along some recording hardware, please list your name and what you can do below.

Dave Crossland, can provide fairly details typed notes for the sessions he attends
Kaveh Bazargan has written a good introduction to Conference Recording for rich multimedia publishing.

We should ask all speakers what license they would like their presentation to be published under, and to be able to opt-out of recording.

Timeline

FEBRUARY 2007

First Week

Send out Press Release
By the end of first week : submit presentation projects including subject, speaker(s), bio, summary. Conference schedule to follow shortly.

Second Week

By the end of second week : texts for the LGM Brochure written and translated.

Fourth Week

By the end of fourth week : LGM Brochure layout completed and proofed. Last minute texts and corrections. Ready to go to prepress.

APRIL 2007

It is recommended to book your hotel reservation at the Uni Residences (LGM deal) by April 1st. See above section HOTELS for details and link to online reservation.

Registration page on the website should be ready by April 1st.

Program established and complete before issue of 2nd Press Release.

Confirmation of sponsorship sent to the teams by April 1st.

Write the second press release as an invitation to participate, including all who should/could attend.

Send out second press release, including the schedule during the week of April 9. (Monday 9 is Easter Monday)

What worked well at LGM?

LGM1 was a tremendous gathering of enthusiastic people and clearly reached the goal it was aiming at. The many warm and well articulated reviews by participants and medias are there to tell it all. Plus, the unanimous call for a second edition is also a sign that the LGM is a great event that helps the developping teams go further, with the help of users and contributors. The fact that sponsors show a great enthusiasm in participating again in 2007 is a sign LGM is a high-level event.

Including presentations by expert users of the software was fantastic. It not only helped bring users and developers together, but also provided extremely interesting insights into how users actually use the software. Plus, it's so much more fun watching a *real artist* using the software to do beautiful things.

The meeting was also a surprisingly effective place to discuss artistic-oriented desktop standards, because we had representation from all the applications that would be involved, and decisions could be made easily. I think a lot of the interest in LGM2 centered around continuing these types of discussions.

What didn't work so well at LGM and should be improved upon?

Although there were many creators and users present at LGM1, this might have been the weak part of the event. LGM2 is committed to gather the developers and the creators together and have them meet and help them establish further contacts.

After the talks, folks really wanted to sit and chat more, but the auditorium wouldn't let us remain there in the evenings. Thus it might be worthwhile to have someplace nice identified for folks to hang out in evenings.

Adressing this specific issue in 2007

People staying on the campus will be able to gather together in the Salons of the residences or in one of 3 meeting rooms in the adjacent building. Folks in small or large groups will be able to sit and chat in the evenings without leaving the LGM site.

Presenters

March 22 - Call for presentations now closed.

We are preparing the program. ETA last week of March 2007. The program will be posted on the LGM website

Presentation proposals

Louis Desjardins (Scribus/LGM): opening talk
Louis Suarez-Potts (OpenOffice.org): Why open standards matter: The Open Document Format
Jon Phillips (http://openclipart and http://creativecommons.org): The Open Content Library: Overview of Open Clip Art Library and ccHost
Pygmee: Working with Open Standards and FLOSS (Inkscape, Gimp, Blender, Scribus)
Cyrille Berger (Krita): OpenRaster - a new file format to fully share complex raster graphics between applications
Bryce Harrington (Inkscape): a presentation about Inkscape's history, current state, and goals
Mrdocs (Scribus): Scribus Talk and possibly two different shorter talks (Scribus for print pros, Scribus for Artists)
peter sikking, Kamila Giedrojć (GIMP): project overview and first results from the openUsability GIMP redesign project
Boudewijn Rempt and Cyrille Berger (Krita): a presentation about Krita, its history, current state and goals.
Øyvind Kolås (GIMP): GEGL - a graph based image processing and compositing engine. A presentation of capabilities, data model, public API and an overview of opportunities for internal optimizations and enhancements
Jimmac: Comparing Vector and Bitmap workflows for icon creation (GIMP vs Inkscape).
Jimmac: Creating photo-realistic artwork based on photo reference (Inkscape).
Pygmee: Contributing without coding
Pygmee: why use FLOSS for professional works
David Maxwell (Coverity): Static Analysis results on graphics software [1]
Dave Crossland: Free Software Fonts
Nicolas Spalinger: The Open Font License, purpose, achievements, future
(Unconfirmed): Dejavu, the premier community free font, past present and future
TBD (Inkscape): a presentation by an Inkscape user, demonstrating some advanced features
MenTaLguY and John Bintz (Inkscape): Creating Comics in Inkscape
Joao: LGM Brazil- impressions, results... and user demands
AndyFitz: Inspiration on our workflow, the caveats, the future and oh the possibilities ;-)
AndyFitz: Communication design in every language | designing product materials purely in open source.
Andreas Vox: Past, Present and Future of Scribus's Text-Layout Features
Hubert Figuiere: Digital Photography with libre Software: RAW, metadata, workflow and asset management.
Liam Quin (if anyone is interested) on what we're doing with XSL-FO 2.0 at W3C
Martin Poirier: General Blender presentation
Bassam Kurdali (Director of Elephants Dream): Creating an Open Movie and production pipeline with free software.
Alexandre Robin (International Political Science Association) : Our first year of graphic design... 100 % open source.
Hal Engel (LProf): a presentation about LProf's history, current state, and goals and how it fits into your color managed work flow.
Yuval Levy: Production workflows for 360° panoramas (examples at [2]) and how to increase the share of open source code in the workflow.
Harrisson + Femke Snelting (OSP): Relaying Systems - Why designers should be interested in FLOSS
Karine Delvare: How to contribute to GIMP
Alain Boucher (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) — a presentation on digital archives issues
Igor Novikov (sK1 http://sk1.sf.net): sK1 - an open source illustration program for prepress. CDR format reverse engineering.
Ted Gould: Introduction to the SVG format
Ted Gould: Inkscape Extensions
- Note: I'd be happy to give both of these if there is space. I don't want to take over the speaking slots though. Also, I'll probably have to catch a noon flight on Sunday, so Friday/Saturday or really early on Sunday please.
Michael Terry: ingimp: An instrumented version of GIMP to automatically collect usability data

We'd like to gather info on who's interested and what the subject of your talk would be.

Putting an idea here on this wiki doesn't mean your talk or conference is automatically qualified for the LGM but it's a first necessary step!

We'd like to have an overview of who wants to do what.

• Each project present at LGM should have someone present a talk

• Subjects related to specific graphic issues (fonts, color management and open standards are obvious candidates)

• Hands-on presentation aimed at the many expected creators to attend LGM2 (show what can be done)

• LGM is YOURS! Please submit your ideas, hopes, etc.

Schedule

Here is the Schedule (work in progress).

A description of all talks can be found here

Boudewijn and Cyrille would prefer to have their Krita talk Saturday afternoon.

Also, don't forget to set-up time for a birds of a feather (BOF) for your project.

Dave's List of How He Organized LGM

For information, I did all of my fundraising in November and December, by Christmas I was 90% settled. And HP will definitely be on board next year, given the reaction we got this year. IBM were also annoyed that I didn't ask them for money - so perhaps fundraising isn't the issue you think it is.

I can send you the rough list of stuff I did for the conference (or that I asked others to do) - the general gist is:

Sort out dates, location, main contact at location.
Start working on a website, and contact all of the relevant project's homepages - don't forget the local LUG.
Finish working on the website :) Finalise a schedule (I finalised this early, around the end of November, after that was minor reworking). Write a shortish sponsors document to give an overview of the goals of the event (this was important for the first one); start working sponsors
Solicit requests for travel expenses once you have a weak idea of the budget (you don't need solid confirmations, just a sane estimate of how much you think you'll get)
Start working on press - your sponsors document becomes a press document, work with the university's PR people, get the projects doing some press for you.
Start work with the local LUG on final preparations - conference attendee packs, maps, accommodation options, meal/party, etc. Start reimbursing people's travel. Someone with an administrator to help out with this is essential.
Have the conference
Pay for everything
goto 1.

Facil have some resources in Montréal and Québec

Please feel free to post your events on our calendar, our public mailing-list and our blog
The majority of the FLOSS groups use the FACIL calendar and you might have some opportunities contacting people through the facil forum (mailing-list)
FACIL can announce the event in the front page of his web site and can help organise a party at his office.
We can certainly host a person.
We have some contacts with CC canada and we would be happy to give you our contacts there.
The last Blender conference was in Montréal and there is a blender group here.
Some people from RecentChangesCamp are organizing a meeting in Montral (RoCoCo) at the same time of the LGM. We think that it would be a good idea to contact them too. This meeting will be about wikis and collaborative arts.
Let me know if you're interrested in being in touch with us. I am part of another group who is interrested in the event and can provide some resourses to help the organization. Please visit http://koumbit.org. I like calling Koumbit an "Open Bizness Not-Model" :) and inside this "collectif", there is a graphic designers group... Please call me on the telephone... because I don't have english words anymore :D
Marco: 514 383-9106.

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