On Sunday 08 August 2010, Camille Bissuel wrote: > The whole purpose of the LGA proposition is collaboration between projects. > It's not "a ring to rule them all" neither. On a side note, it is exactly what freedesktop is about.
The only thing that can't work under freedesktop is the certification thing. > The Create wiki is very useful for "internal" work. But it's not for users. But very good for collaboration between projects :D > Other websites, including http://libregraphicsworld.org, aren't aimed to > address the LGA purpose, they are too specific. I have time to build such a > website, so it's not a waste of time for other projects. While lgw does not cover the LGA purpose, it matches the lga website. To be honest, from what I have understood, lga = lgw + create. If people thinks create does not works very well, I fail to see how having an "association" is going to magically solve any problem. Especially, considering that what create lack is mostly of animation. Also, creating an association with no revenue seems to be a lot of bureaucratic work. In many countries, the main point of registering an association is to get access to a bank account. Finally, I want to encourage any effort in promoting libre creative software, but I add my voices in the "there is already too many separated efforts, lets join force instead of creating new". Or alternatively, lets create something really new. I think the success of the blender foundation, both movies and/or tutorial dvd (like [1]) could give us ideas. So we could create a magazine (available as PDF, and printed to people who want a paper edition, actually someone already started such a project, I think ?), or a booklet that could be send as "commercial" to companies, a book (either tutorial, or a "story" book with illustration created with our software). All done with free software. Then you can show the results to professional, and impress them. When I was a student, I participated in editing a student weekly newspaper, we managed to print in four colors using a two cylinders rotary printer, the seller was so surprised by the result that you could get with the machine, that he sent a few samples of our journal to the direction in Japan. This little story shows that if you do interesting things, you will get attention. There is already an impressive pool of artists using our software, lets pull them together to create material that display the power of our tools. And this require someone with energy and time to coordinate, and would bring (in my opinion) more added value, that yet-an-other website. [1] http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=122 -- Cyrille Berger _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create