> Actually, what would even be _better_ would be: > > "Scribus Users and Developer's Conference" or "Open Publishing >Platform > Conference - 2006" > > Summer 2006 - Europe (that's where the devels all live now). > > Including other OSS devels.
Great idea! Bring together all of the FOSS folks concerned with different aspects of publishing: scribus, inkscape, sodipodi, Gimp, TeX/LaTeX/LyX, ghostscript, CUPS, OOo ... Even Closed Source companies as Adobe or Pantone (maybe not Quark, for reasons well known to everybody), manufacturers of printing equipment should be invited to discuss problems, prospects and solutions. Scribus, inkscape and Gimp have shown that there's a future for DTP in FOSS (or the other way around), and from the list I have learned that even a lot of Apple's customers are already using scribus. A conference would be a great starting point to coordinate the efforts and to establish contacts with 'traditional' businesses (which will be crucial for the growth of businesses built on FOSS, I suppose). Christoph
