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Support the Libre Graphics Meeting

By dneary (add to contacts)

Libre Graphics Meeting, 8 - 11 May 2008

What is the Libre Graphics Meeting?
The Libre Graphics Meeting brings together developers and users of free software graphics applications, such as the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita, the Open Clipart Library and more.

In its third edition, the organization needs your help! You can support your favorite graphics application, and ensure that the travel costs of as many volunteer developers as possible are paid to ensure that this edition of the conference is more successful that its predecessors.

Where will the money go?
We have kept costs associated with infrastructure to a minimum. Over 80% of the conference budget will be spent on subsidizing travel and accommodation costs for developers.

A non-profit organization
All donations will be made to the conference organizers via the GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)3 tax exempt US-based non-profit, so donations will be tax deductible for US taxpayers. We would like to thank the GNOME Foundation for their support.

Categories
Financial, Open Source and Technology
Tags
free software, open source, libre graphics meeting, gimp, scribus, inkscape, blender, krita and fundraiser
Additional Information
Launched Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Modified Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Mark Daggett said:

This sounds like a really great conference, and as a user of several of these products I am thrilled to see an event dedicated to bringing users and devs together to make them even better.

I'd be amazing if the entire 20k could be raised in just 15 days. I really hope the Pledgie community rallies around this cause.

P.S. Go Inkscape! (my personal fav)

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Garry Dolley said:

Yeah, this is cool. I've been using Gimp for 15 years now I think. Man... time flies!

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Jon Phillips said:

Yes, this is a great quick campaign where anyone, including businesses and other organizations can send sponsorship so we can make sure this great even happens!

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Jon Phillips said:

Cool! I posted this to digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Support_the_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_2008

Next up, posting to my blog and other places...

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Jon Phillips said:

Ok, I blogged it big on my site which will spread to other planets I'm on. I also sent an email about this to Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library lists:

http://rejon.org/2008/04/01/support-the-libre-graphics-meeting-2008-in-poland/

Post up here your blog post! Lets see em!

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Dave Neary said:

http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2008/04/02/help-out-the-libre-graphics-meeting/

This will go out to a few planets too.

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Garry Dolley said:

I blogged it: http://scie.nti.st/2008/4/1/support-open-source-graphics

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Benjamin_L said:

I also blogged about it:
http://www.lebsanft.org/blog/?p=576

Is it possible to link the donation to my account after donating accountless?

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Mark Daggett said:

Hey Benjamin I'll ask Garry to link you up.

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Jon Phillips said:

Cool we raise more than 1K$ the first day! We just have to keep up the pace and we will hit our goal!

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Lukasz Jernas said:

I'll be there, no idea what for but at least I can work as a translator ;)

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Jon Phillips said:

Hi all! We are about to cross $2K! If you have any other corporate or organizational sponsors that you think would help on this campaign, please do send me a message or post here!

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hombre_invisible said:

Salud a tod@s:
Solo la cultura nos hará libres. Mediante el uso de software libre colaboramos al libre acceso a la cultura.
Colabora para que esto sea posible.

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kattekrab said:

The Libre Graphics Meeting has established itself as one of the key annual conferences for open source software developers. As far as I'm aware, it's the only one focussed particularly on the graphic and design area. Crucial advances have come out of these gatherings - so I'm happy to support the creation of a travel fund for developers of Libre Graphics.

I blogged here:
http://kattekrab.livejournal.com/tag/libregraphicsmeeting

and made this:
http://www.kattekrab.net/files/libregraphics-button.png

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Brianna Laugher said:

Blogged:

http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/102/links-for-2008-04-06

Hopefully will hit up a few Wikimedians :)

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ryanlerch said:

yay! 102 donations, and $3453.00 raised so far!!!

i've added the button on http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/ and blogged on my personal site...

keep up the good work!

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Andy Fitzsimon said:

There is no limit to the amount of packet noodles I'm willing to eat in order to get the LGM this year :) See you there friends!

Massive thank you's to every sponsor who has donated. You're investment will be rewarded with both value and love.

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Paul Frields said:

I was so excited about the pledge drive that I forgot to create an account before sending in my donation. So I don't get a little burgundy banner, but I get the warm satisfaction of sending some libre artists to work on the tools that help make free software beautiful!

Paul W. Frields
Fedora Project Leader

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Garry Dolley said:

Paul,

I linked your donation and your account, now you have a shiny burgundy banner :)

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Benjamin_L said:

Garry, could you do the same for me please :) I'm donator #12.

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Mark Daggett said:

Hey guys,
There is a Pledgie Facebook application, which is in silent beta (we've not announced it yet officially). It allows you to embed a campaign badge on your Facebook profile page. I am sure this campaign is full of connected individuals ;-) and I bet pushing the badge to your profile will be a great way to generate more interest in the campaign.

Find out more here:
http://apps.facebook.com/pledgie/

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Garry Dolley said:

Benjamin_L, done!

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Lukasz Jernas said:

Garry #42 please ;)
Now I must see, how else to spread the word about this campaign :)

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IrishGirl said:

I just discovered GIMP last week, and I am so excited about it! I've kept Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Essentials on my computer for years. This little gem, however goes far beyond Photoshop in so many ways. Aside from it loading more quickly and hogging less resources, I love how customizable it is. I wish I'd known about this years ago! And the best part, is that it's created by volunteers who think like me, and who want to make a difference. Thanks guys and girls - and have fun in Wroclav. I was there two years ago, and it is a beautiful city. Don't miss the "modern" fountains in the main square, and be sure to drop by the Tourist Information Office in the square - free internet access, incredibly friendly people, and lots of info. Ask them about the gnomes, and how to find them. There are tiny bronze gnomes scattered about the downtown area; some are easy to spot - others a bit more difficult. For some photos (gnomes and otherwise) look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/margiec/sets/72157602902550497/

Enjoy your trip, and keep 'em coming!

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Jae Stutzman said:

Supporting what I believe in!

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Mark Daggett said:

200!

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Jon Phillips said:

Over 500K views! Man, this campaign has hit it hard! If we can just get the goal of 20K, that would be beyond swell! Time to talk to some big donors and companies :) You guys rule and are helping us reach this so well...this is a truly community supported conference!

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Per Christian Henden said:

I've used GIMP for 10 years. This is a good way to give something back :)

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Velmont said:

Nice. I didn't find a place to put my name, but my nick will do. I use Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus and Blender a whole lot. I need a video editor though, and I'm aiming for Lumiera to be it in a couple of years.

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Dave Neary said:

Over $9500 raised (including some pending donations)
240 donors
750 sites advertising the campaign
700,000 page views for the badge
Over 13,000 visitors to this campaign site

Wow! On so many levels, those are impressive numbers.

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Dave Neary said:

I'm going to update teh campaign goal, reducing the goal from $20,000 (which is now clearly unattainable) to the realistic bit ambitious $12,000 - let's see if we can't make 100% in the next 36 hours.

Dave.

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oracle2025 said:

The Open Movie Editor Project salutes the Libre Graphics Developers!

:-)

Have fun at the Conference,

Cheers
-Richard

http://www.openmovieeditor.org/

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John Drinkwater said:

Just wish I could donate more… oh well, every little helps. :)

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pyg77 said:

Banner added a few days ago on http://www.framasoft.net (a quite well known french FLOSS repository with about 80K pages display per day). Hopes that will help LGM participants :)

PS : many people wants a Krita for windows ;)

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Louis Desjardins said:

The graphic field is highly complex. If someone is still wondering about the importance of meetings such as the Libre Graphics Meeting in the development of Open Source Applications, think of this:

Those apps cover an incredibly complex array of tasks: pixels and vectors manipulations of all kinds, transparency and blends, colors, 3D, fonts and font management, file formats, export/output, resolution, color space, color management, state-of-the-art typography, human language diversity and complexity, GUI issues and among-apps interactions, etc. They have to work well and they have to work well together. People are generally using many of them, not just one of them! :)

Open, tight and face-to-face discussions among highly knowledgeable and highly skilled developers and users have an overwhelming "push forward" effect on ideas that would take far more time to arise — and could even not arise at all — through the day-to-day regular channels. LGM is hot. It’s a bleeding edge conference. It’s hard work and good fun. It is a necessity!

I hope to be convincing enough so that in the last hours of the campaign we’ll be able to attain our goal or even go beyond it. Every bit added to the budget is helping those people get together for the benefit of all!

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Campaign Results

Find out how your donations helped this cause!

279 Donors raised $12098.15 for this cause!

Thank you everyone!

By dneary
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008

The Libre Graphics Meeting fundraising campaign is over! In total, we raised $11,368, making our community a Gold sponsor of the conference, for more money than Intel and Google combined! Thanks to you, and the other 275 donors to the campaign, we have assured the financial health of the conference this year.

Over the course of the campaign, we had over 15,000 visits to the campaign page, over 750 sites carried our campaign badge on them, for a total of over 850,000 page views - an amazing number for a campaign of this type!

Thank you again for your kind and generous donations.

Update: We have received a further $730 in late donations, bringing the campaign funds raised to $12,098 in total! Thank you very much to our community, and to the Fedora project in particular for tipping us over the line.

Donors (279)
Name Date
1. Mark Daggett April 1, 2008
2. Garry Dolley April 1, 2008
3. Anders Kvist April 1, 2008
4. Jon Phillips April 1, 2008
5. Thomas Roland Koll April 2, 2008
6. Dave Neary April 2, 2008
7. Braydon Fuller April 2, 2008
8. Mark Wielaard April 2, 2008
9. Kolja Dummann April 2, 2008
10. Steven Garrity April 2, 2008
11. Christian Lamminger-Fiedler April 2, 2008
12. Benjamin_L April 2, 2008
13. Anonymous April 2, 2008
14. Stefano Giunchi April 2, 2008
15. Sebastian Thomas April 2, 2008
16. Gregory Pittman April 2, 2008
17. Russell ossendryver April 2, 2008
18. Pascal Lachat April 2, 2008
19. R David Skillings April 2, 2008
20. Dorian Okrucinski April 2, 2008
21. Lasse Bigum April 2, 2008
22. Peter Jensen April 2, 2008
23. Anonymous April 2, 2008
24. Anonymous April 2, 2008
25. Noam Bamberger April 2, 2008
26. Theodore Messinis April 2, 2008
27. Christian Müller April 2, 2008
28. Mariano Nemec April 2, 2008
29. Anonymous April 2, 2008
30. Andrew Ashton April 2, 2008
31. Barry Loo April 2, 2008
32. Wes Shull April 3, 2008
33. Anonymous April 3, 2008
34. Anonymous April 3, 2008
35. Anonymous April 3, 2008
36. Kenneth Armstrong April 3, 2008
37. Adam Sweet April 3, 2008
38. Yann Pouillon April 3, 2008
39. Guillaume Pothier April 3, 2008
40. Baptiste Durand-Bret April 3, 2008
41. laurent bibard April 3, 2008
42. ukasz Jerna April 3, 2008
43. thierry garel April 3, 2008
44. Anonymous April 3, 2008
45. Loïc Alejandro April 3, 2008
46. Alex Willmer April 3, 2008
47. Anonymous April 3, 2008
48. Alex Chekholko April 3, 2008
49. Anonymous April 4, 2008
50. Garry Dolley April 4, 2008
51. Anonymous April 4, 2008
52. Anonymous April 4, 2008
53. Ola Sikström April 4, 2008
54. Pádraig Brady April 4, 2008
55. Luis Miguel Portillo Barrera April 4, 2008
56. Charles Wise April 4, 2008
57. Sebastian Bober April 4, 2008
58. Anonymous April 4, 2008
59. Pierre Boulenguez April 4, 2008
60. Alan Arthur April 4, 2008
61. John Treffer April 4, 2008
62. Anonymous April 4, 2008
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64. christophe cazin April 4, 2008
65. Anonymous April 4, 2008
66. Eric Sink April 4, 2008
67. Anonymous April 4, 2008
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69. Johannes Rau April 4, 2008
70. Boris Kolev April 4, 2008
71. tim koski April 4, 2008
72. tim koski April 4, 2008
73. Anonymous April 4, 2008
74. Anonymous April 4, 2008
75. Donna Benjamin April 4, 2008
76. Aleksander Tarkowski April 5, 2008
77. Anonymous April 5, 2008
78. Jakub Klawiter April 5, 2008
79. Francois Huot April 5, 2008
80. Mathias Bavay April 5, 2008
81. Brianna Laugher April 5, 2008
82. Jacques LEHMANN April 5, 2008
83. Nikolaj Petersen April 5, 2008
84. Ben Baston April 5, 2008
85. Anonymous April 5, 2008
86. Kacper Gunia April 5, 2008
87. Matteo Settenvini April 5, 2008
88. David Nielsen April 5, 2008
89. Joby Joseph April 5, 2008
90. Simon Breth April 5, 2008
91. Anonymous April 6, 2008
92. Anonymous April 6, 2008
93. Xavier Verne April 6, 2008
94. Mark Daggett April 6, 2008
95. Anonymous April 6, 2008
96. Anonymous April 6, 2008
97. Eric W Work April 6, 2008
98. Anonymous April 6, 2008
99. Matthew West April 6, 2008
100. Christoph Schröder April 6, 2008
101. david varnes April 6, 2008
102. Mathias Linden April 6, 2008
103. Martin Boisjoly April 7, 2008
104. Pierre Gohon April 7, 2008
105. CAROLINA LOPEZ April 7, 2008
106. Charalampos Emmanouilidis April 7, 2008
107. Johan Blome April 7, 2008
108. Huw Lynes April 8, 2008
109. JAKE RAYSON April 8, 2008
110. David G. Sarnowski April 8, 2008
111. Louis Desjardins April 8, 2008
112. Francesco Macaluso April 8, 2008
113. Benjamin Hagen April 8, 2008
114. Juan Rey April 8, 2008
115. James Louvau April 8, 2008
116. Ulrich Weis April 8, 2008
117. Chad Godfirnon April 8, 2008
118. Martin Olsson April 8, 2008
119. ANDREA CANONICO April 8, 2008
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121. Anonymous April 8, 2008
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131. Caspar von Wrede April 9, 2008
132. Lukasz Jernas April 9, 2008
133. Anonymous April 9, 2008
134. Vadym Peretokin April 9, 2008
135. Anonymous April 9, 2008
136. Andy Fitzsimon April 9, 2008
137. Anonymous April 10, 2008
138. Christian Strübing April 10, 2008
139. Martin Ansdell-Smith April 10, 2008
140. Michael Litty April 10, 2008
141. Melchior Mazzone April 10, 2008
142. MichaelTiemann April 10, 2008
143. khaled Jamoos April 10, 2008
144. Paul Frields April 10, 2008
145. Scott Baker April 10, 2008
146. Sergiu Dumitriu April 10, 2008
147. Arne Skogen Lekve April 10, 2008
148. Anonymous April 10, 2008
149. Christopher Cullins April 10, 2008
150. Anonymous April 10, 2008
151. Anonymous April 10, 2008
152. Bruno Vernay April 10, 2008
153. bennie croghan April 10, 2008
154. Scott Dodson April 10, 2008
155. Robert Staenke April 11, 2008
156. Lukas Ruzicka April 11, 2008
157. Adam Lyall April 11, 2008
158. Anonymous April 11, 2008
159. Myles Keogh April 11, 2008
160. Ingo Luetkebohle April 11, 2008
161. Stefan Drees April 11, 2008
162. Jussi Pakkanen April 11, 2008
163. John Stowers April 11, 2008
164. Svetoslav Trochev April 11, 2008
165. Anonymous April 12, 2008
166. Ejner Fergo April 12, 2008
167. Anonymous April 12, 2008
168. Séverin Lemaignan April 12, 2008
169. Frode Jensen April 12, 2008
170. Anonymous April 12, 2008
171. Osmo Maatta April 12, 2008
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173. Anonymous April 12, 2008
174. Tobias Lippert April 13, 2008
175. Mary Tomich April 13, 2008
176. Russell Dodd April 13, 2008
177. IrishGirl April 13, 2008
178. Ernest Hammett April 13, 2008
179. Anonymous April 13, 2008
180. Ingo Bormuth April 13, 2008
181. Anonymous April 13, 2008
182. Alex Fraser April 13, 2008
183. andreasn April 14, 2008
184. Anonymous April 14, 2008
185. Loïc Alejandro April 14, 2008
186. John Bintz April 14, 2008
187. Rulkov Andrey April 14, 2008
188. Stefaan Lippens April 14, 2008
189. Jae Stutzman April 14, 2008
190. Andrew Kuchling April 14, 2008
191. Christopher Messina April 14, 2008
192. Marvin Pearson April 14, 2008
193. Anonymous April 14, 2008
194. Andy Burns April 14, 2008
195. Achim Frase April 14, 2008
196. Mark Lee April 14, 2008
197. Nicolas Spalinger April 14, 2008
198. Anonymous April 14, 2008
199. Jean PROSPERI April 14, 2008
200. Per Christian Henden April 14, 2008
201. Jo Ann Anthony April 14, 2008
202. Jon Barnett April 14, 2008
203. Anonymous April 14, 2008
204. Piotr Dlugosz April 15, 2008
205. Nicolas DUHIL April 15, 2008
206. Anonymous April 15, 2008
207. Anonymous April 15, 2008
208. Samuel Weber April 15, 2008
209. sante castignani April 15, 2008
210. Benjamin Geese April 15, 2008
211. Anonymous April 15, 2008
212. Pinet Etienne April 15, 2008
213. Anonymous April 15, 2008
214. Sylvain BERTRAND April 15, 2008
215. Anonymous April 15, 2008
216. Juan Carlos del Caño Sánchez April 15, 2008
217. Anonymous April 15, 2008
218. Anonymous April 16, 2008
219. Anonymous April 16, 2008
220. Petr Vysloužil April 16, 2008
221. Wicher Minnaard April 16, 2008
222. Neal Becker April 16, 2008
223. Rebecca Shay April 16, 2008
224. Velmont April 16, 2008
225. Bdale Garbee April 16, 2008
226. Anonymous April 16, 2008
227. Lamberto Tedaldi April 16, 2008
228. Anonymous April 16, 2008
229. Ilan Rabinovitch April 16, 2008
230. Nikolaj Petersen April 16, 2008
231. Darko Surjan April 16, 2008
232. Henning Norén April 16, 2008
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234. Anonymous April 16, 2008
235. Timo Jyrinki April 17, 2008
236. John Treffer April 17, 2008
237. Ryan Raasch April 17, 2008
238. Carlos Pereira April 17, 2008
239. Drew Ogle April 17, 2008
240. garrett April 17, 2008
241. Stephen OGrady April 17, 2008
242. Kari Takanen April 17, 2008
243. oracle2025 April 17, 2008
244. Vincent Untz April 17, 2008
245. Behdad Esfahbod April 17, 2008
246. John Drinkwater April 17, 2008
247. Geert Jansen April 17, 2008
248. Paul Cooper April 17, 2008
249. Anonymous April 17, 2008
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252. Alberto Ramallo April 17, 2008
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258. Anonymous April 18, 2008
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