LGM 2008 will be held from May 8-11th in Poland. This year, the Blender Institute will support Campbell Barton and Dariusz Dawidowsky to join the LGM and do a presentation there about Peach and Apricot. Schedule to be announced.
About the event:
LGM is all about participation. Artists and developers, feel free to bring your laptops and show us what you can (and can't yet) do. Organise a BOF about your favourite project or feature. We're aiming for a bazaar.
Libre Graphics Meeting is free to attend, and open to all. See LGM 2007 in Montréal to know what you can expect in Wrocław.
In its third edition, the organization needs your help! You can support your favorite graphics application, and ensure that the travel costs of as many volunteer developers as possible are paid to ensure that this edition of the conference is more successful that its predecessors.
Covered software: Scribus, Krita, Inkscape, Gimp and Blender.
In addition, the organization is still trying to raise $12,000 to support the conference and help developers cover travel and accommodation costs. There's only one day left and at the time of writing they were only $1680 short. If you want, you can donate or find more information on the campaign by clicking the link below:
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A CG/Blender-related event in my country! Cool!
Maybe I'll be able to make it, although I'm on the other edge of Poland :)
somtimes i dont mean to be a @ss but why is that all the blender conferences and big shot mega blender stuff happen out side of the USA...iam kinda jealous...but than again blender is international and USA is againist open source...(not ME!!!!!) wish i was there
Rakunkio: u like every North-american... (dont say american cause i leave in America too and not in USA) think that everything is gonna happend in your country. All of u think that your country is the center of the world... maybe thats why u dont understand it.
NO OFFENSE
@Rakunkio: I also live in the USA and have organized classes in Blender and hope to organize a conference. A difference here is that it is very hard to even get a place to meet that is not expensive. After teaching numerous classes last year and charging for them compared to what many of the Europeans are doing for free, I still lost a significant amount of money.
@ A blender User : I do not agree that everyone in the USA thinks that we are the center of the world. I don't believe that. I appreciate the international community. This goes especially for the Blender World. I agree that many of us here, are not well informed of the world outside our borders, but that is not all of us. My hope in creating the Kingsport's First International Digital Art Show last December was to create more appreciation of the world at large and hopefully to create links to international artists. I cannot change what others do, but would like to lead my life as an example of love, respect, understanding, tolerance, and peace.
ByronK: yep.. u are right.. not every of you.. sorry, my mistake.... but the 90% of you... anyway...
Cheers
@A blender User, Thanks!
90% of North America's population is somewhere around 270million people. Thats still a significant amount. to say all 270,000,000 people are against open source is a little inaccurate.
(you made your remarks slightly less unbelievable by having that 10% discount)
Some of them(NORTHAmericans) just don't care about open source or haven't heard of it.
---YET----
hopefully Blender Will change that!
And I also want to see increased blender activity inside the USA. Don't get me wrong, Its great that this stuff happens "other places" in other countries.
"All of u think that your country is the center of the world… maybe thats why u dont understand it." --A blender User--
Are you saying most (NORTH) Americans demand to be the "center" of attention?
And about the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008: Awesome!
too bad we cant get there without an aircraft.
too bad, we seldom get a blender(anything) in this region of the U.S.A.
90% of North America's population is somewhere around 270million people. Thats still a significant amount. to say all 270,000,000 people are against open source is a little inaccurate.
(you made your remarks slightly less unbelievable by having that 10% discount)
Some of them(NORTHAmericans) just don't care about open source or haven't heard of it.
---YET----
hopefully Blender Will change that!
And I also want to see increased blender activity inside the USA. Don't get me wrong, Its great that this stuff happens "other places" in other countries.
And about the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008: Awesome!
too bad we cant get there without an aircraft.
too bad, we seldom get a blender(anything) in this region of the U.S.A.
Sorry about the double post....
@ A blender user.... I am a North American and find your comments both offensive and ill-informed. I am sure every culture and country around the world has mindless and arrogant people. Wherever you are from, based on your comments, you are clearly of this breed yourself, and would make a fine candidate to represent the very thing you write about me, my continent, my culture, my people.
This forum is about things Blender, and BlenderNation is a great resource for those around the world that love Blender, CG, and the arts, not a platform to launch racial views.
So..... about the Libre Graphics meeting in Poland... wish I could be there!
Posted by a proud Canadian.
@Rakunko I think it's unfair to say that the U.S. is against Open Source. It's probably the commercial companies and regulations that give that impression.
There is that impression that everything in the US has to be paid for and patented. Maybe there's a fear Open Source is a kind of communism :). Of course, that doesn't go for all people, it's mainly the companies which influence the government, but there has to be some national support for that to happen. Also I think in Europe THAT is feared as a kind of totalitarianism. Maybe because Americans have never been under a totalitarian regime, some of them don't see the dangers in their lives (potentially) being dictated by huge powerful companies. Open Source is a possibility to "opt out" of this monopolistic system, unless patent-supporting laws kill this possibility. I devoutly hope this will never happen in Europe.
@A blender User
If I might point out, many large USA based companies are large supporters of open source efforts (SUN, IBM, HP come to mind). If you add in Colleges and Universities (MIt, Stanford, UC Berkley, etc..) they also contribute to a large number of open-source efforts. To say the majority of the USA populace is against open-source I think is being pretty harsh. I will grant you that many people in the USA are ill-informed about what open-source is and means but I don't think that means that they are against it. (Given we are home to the great evil which is Micro$oft) but that doesn't mean we are against open-source.
I for one use Linux as my primary operating system both at work and at home and do much to inform other people about it and all the great open-source software out there. I've also been promoting blender as much as possible as a true replacement for Maya and 3DS max (did I mention I live in the USA).
One big problem that many people run into here in the US (which makes it seem like open-source is bad) is all the problems we face being in a country where companies that are against open-source ( or at least see it as a threat ) try to enforce their claims on intellectual property (patents and the like).
@born
I also wish I could be at the Libre Graphics meeting in Poland. For now I will continue to gather support for Blender locally and see If I can't get a user group together. Who knows, maybe if enough blender user groups get started in the US (and anywhere else that can) we can all get together somewhere in the states or canada at some time in the future and promote all things open?
I live in MIchigan and I have seen someone on the blender forums try to get a blender user group together so maybe the discussion of such a thing would be best done there.
Just my $0.02 (which might be about 0.01 euros by now).