Hi Sam! I'll be at LCA. Did you propose a miniconf? I proposed one too, for open fashion including hands-on demos using the software and equipment. Good luck to you! If yours is accepted, I can help you with setup, teardown, & general comraderie.
Best, Susan -- Susan Spencer *Chair Fashion Freedom Initiative <https://fashionfreedom.eu>* *I'm offline on Wednesdays to do all the things and on weekends to do all the other things.* On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Sam Muirhead <s...@cameralibre.cc> wrote: > I'm in New Zealand, and keen to take this on :) Thanks for the prompt! > > I wasn't planning to attend LCA due to this year's focus on Internet of > Things, which has no crossover with my interests, but I didn't even > consider the idea of an LGM miniconf... > > I will submit a proposal in the next day or two. If anybody else is keen > to be involved, please get in touch! > > > ---- > Sam Muirhead > Open Source / Video > http://cameralibre.cc > > > > Jul 29, 2018, 12:05 PM by nwil...@glyphography.com: > > ...now's the time. > > > I realize this is short notice, but what can you do. Linux.conf.au (LCA) > has its call for papers open for just a couple more days: > https://linux.conf.au/call-for-papers/ > > The event itself is January 21 to 25, 2019. > > In addition to the regular session submissions, though, people can propose > one-day 'miniconfs' for addition to the schedule. Approved miniconf > organizers are then responsible for putting together their own program. > They are typically single-topic-focused events, and holding one on libre > graphics would certainly be a great opportunity for the LG community to > engage with a totally different audience than the one that habitually > frequents LGM itself. > > Several folks on this list have put together similar libre-graphics-day > tracks at other local, community events in the past, most recently at SCALE > in Los Angeles, and they're always enthusiastic and interesting. So if > anybody is in the Australia / New Zaeland region (or likes going there), > and feels like giving it a shot, this is the chance. > > Please note that I'm not volunteering to do that: it really would need > somebody who's either in the area or is already 100% sure that they'll be > at LCA. I've been a couple of times in years past and it's a great > community, but it's quite a trip for a lot of us on certain other > continents.... > > Anyway, just tossing that out there. I don't think you'd have to have > anything close to a complete plan in place (like what speakers/sessions > you'd have); this is just the deadline for proposing a miniconf in general. > > Nate > > -- > nathan.p.willis > nwil...@glyphography.com <http://identi.ca/n8> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list > libre-graphics-meet...@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting > >
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