We've got someone on the ground in SoCal from our community* that might be able to help with something for SCALE, and I'll certainly help however I can as well. It's something I've wondered about for a little while now to have a presence at.
* our community == photo nerds On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:37 PM Nathan Willis <nwil...@glyphography.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Josh Andler <scis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Nathan, >> >> Funny you bring that up, I've been tempted (for a couple years) to see if >> there is enough interest to do that for SCaLE. Did those talks seem to be >> reasonably well attended at TXLF? Did it seem like any people that might >> not normally attend ended up going because of that? >> >> > Yeah, the attendance was great. Pretty hard to say how many people > attended because of that, though, since we didn't poll on it. But I will > say that it was a Friday track, which is generally the lowest turnout day > because of work/school conflicts. > > In the past we always had commercially-focused material on Fridays, since > a lot of businesses will let their people go on Friday if it's to attend a > training-related thing. So Red Hat will do a day of RHEL classes or > whatever. > > I definitely recommend it for SCALE; I can probably even help if you want > (I've gone every year I could; this past one I was in the UK so it was the > first I missed in quite a while). > > Nate > > >> Cheers, >> Josh >> >> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Nathan Willis <nwil...@glyphography.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Felipe Sanches <j...@members.fsf.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> There has been indeed an unofficial "LGM Brazil" something like 10 >>>> years ago. >>>> >>>> >>> That kind of touches on another thing; in the long term, it'd probably >>> be best if we found ways to come up with "related but not identical" names >>> for the events. You don't want confusion, where somebody is afraid they >>> missed LGM. >>> >>> I seem to recall somebody did one (at linux.conf.au or something?) a >>> while back that they called "Libre Graphics Day." Or maybe it was >>> FOSDEM.... Anyway, it sounded related but was clear about being it's own >>> thing. >>> >>> Last year at Texas Linux Fest, we did a "Libre Graphics Track." That is >>> also something I think it'd be great if we did more of: tried to work with >>> local community conferences to put tracks together. >>> >>> But I'm procrastinating from work; I'll stop now.... >>> >>> >>> Nate >>> >>> >>> >>>> 2017-08-09 12:51 GMT-03:00 Julien Deswaef <ju...@requiem4tv.com>: >>>> >>>>> On 8/9/17 11:28, Felipe Sanches wrote: >>>>> >>>>> By the way... Couldn't they perhaps be interested in hosting a future >>>>> LGM ? >>>>> >>>>> Yes, that's one thing I thought about when I posted the link here. If >>>>> there is a strong LGM base in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, we should >>>>> definitely git in touch with them to open this possibility. >>>>> >>>>> The second thing that I thought following this news/name-coincidence >>>>> is that there could be "local chapters" of LGM that meet on a more regular >>>>> base. >>>>> >>>>> Julien >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> CREATE mailing list >>>>> CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org >>>>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CREATE mailing list >>>> CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org >>>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> nathan.p.willis >>> nwil...@glyphography.com <http://identi.ca/n8> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CREATE mailing list >>> CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create >>> >>> >> > > > -- > nathan.p.willis > nwil...@glyphography.com <http://identi.ca/n8> > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > -- https://patdavid.net GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC
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