On 4 August 2011 06:25, Nathan Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I happened to bump into Edward Hervey (of PiTiVi/Collabora fame) a while > back, and we were discussing LGM and the bringing-teams-together and > bringing-users-together dimensions. Turns out they have more or less the > same principles guiding the annual GStreamer Conference, which is set for > October in Prague. > > To jump right to the end of the conversation, we thought it would be really > interesting to see if any of the libre graphics community wanted to go, and > perhaps even give talks or set aside some meeting time. Because honestly, > the division we think about between still graphics and motion graphics is > pretty arbitrary -- you just have to look at the number of video-related > talks we get at LGM every year to see that. The long and the short of it > is, it's good to get developers together when they share a common problem > space, and mixed media is here to stay, so all sorts of interesting things > could happen if we don't try and keep our conferences separated. > > So here's the opportunity: GStreamer's Conference is October 24 and 25 at > the Clarion Congress hotel in Prague. They'd like to have LGM / libre > graphics people propose some sessions. The "official" CFP window is > actually closed, but program director Christian Schaller is holding open > three or so session slots to try and bring in some graphics talks. You're > all also just invited to come and listen, of course. Christian even said > they might could get extra meeting room space if any project teams wanted to > get together during the event to work -- you'll have to contact him. > > Obviously, there's no pressure here. It's just an opportunity. But > GStreamer Conference *is* co-located with the Linux Foundation's Kernel > Summit, so the thought was that some people might already be there and want > to do both. Plus, of course, since LGM was in North America this year, > there might be people who weren't able to get there but could make it to > Prague. And why wait until May, anyhow -- just like the various Libre > Graphics Day mini-events, there's a good opportunity to meet face to face > with people from the video side of the "fence" and to talk to users. After > all, there are doubtless a lot of video artists who use the still graphics > tools to tackle important parts of their workflow, and you could get > valuable insight into the problems they face during this event. And who > knows, there could also be people there who are working primarily in video > media, but just happen to not have heard of Krita, or hadn't thought to try > MyPaint or Inkscape as part of their process.
I think this is a great opportunity, thanks for bringing it up. My impression is that the GStreamer conference a bit more technical than LGM, with a more narrow scope (centered around GStreamer related technologies and their use). Not that it should discourage anyone; we have plenty of technical know-how in the community, and they might also welcome the diversity from more artist-centric or artistic talks. > If you're interested in participating, there is more information about the > GStreamer Conf itself at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/ . > Including hotel info and links to the Kernel Summit site. If you think > you'd like to propose a talk for one of the reserved slots, then contact > Christian, at [email protected] . I know the video talks > at LGM are always fun to see; I think that graphics talks at GStreamer Conf > would be fun to see, too. Hope you'll all consider submitting a talk, as > well as just joining everyone else for the excitement in Prague! I hope to be in Prague in any case to enjoy the city and the conference(s)*. Depending on what I find time to do, I might try to make use of this opportunity to give a talk about the GEGL work that I've started. Hope to see familiar faces there! * The GStreamer conference overlaps with the Consumer Embedded Linux Europe conference and LinuxConf. > Thanks, > Nate > > -- > nathan.p.willis > [email protected] > aim/ym/gtalk:n8willis > identi.ca/n8 > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > > -- Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
