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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.

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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Comments (35)

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 1 Apr
2. Garry Dolley 1 Apr
3. Anders Kvist 1 Apr
4. Jon Phillips 1 Apr
5. Thomas Roland Koll 2 Apr
6. Dave Neary 2 Apr
7. Braydon Fuller 2 Apr
8. Mark Wielaard 2 Apr
9. Kolja Dummann 2 Apr
10. Steven Garrity 2 Apr
11. Christian Lamminger-Fiedler 2 Apr
12. Benjamin_L 2 Apr
13. Anonymous 2 Apr
14. Stefano Giunchi 2 Apr
15. Sebastian Thomas 2 Apr
16. Gregory Pittman 2 Apr
17. Russell ossendryver 2 Apr
18. Pascal Lachat 2 Apr
19. R David Skillings 2 Apr
20. Dorian Okrucinski 2 Apr
21. Lasse Bigum 2 Apr
22. Peter Jensen 2 Apr
23. Anonymous 2 Apr
24. Anonymous 2 Apr
25. Noam Bamberger 2 Apr
26. Theodore Messinis 2 Apr
27. Christian Müller 2 Apr
28. Mariano Nemec 2 Apr
29. Anonymous 2 Apr
30. Andrew Ashton 2 Apr
31. Barry Loo 2 Apr
32. Wes Shull 3 Apr
33. Anonymous 3 Apr
34. Anonymous 3 Apr
35. Anonymous 3 Apr
36. Kenneth Armstrong 3 Apr
37. Adam Sweet 3 Apr
38. Yann Pouillon 3 Apr
39. Guillaume Pothier 3 Apr
40. Baptiste Durand-Bret 3 Apr
41. laurent bibard 3 Apr
42. ukasz Jerna 3 Apr
43. thierry garel 3 Apr
44. Anonymous 3 Apr
45. Loïc Alejandro 3 Apr
46. Alex Willmer 3 Apr
47. Anonymous 3 Apr
48. Alex Chekholko 3 Apr
49. Anonymous 4 Apr
50. Garry Dolley 4 Apr
51. Anonymous 4 Apr
52. Anonymous 4 Apr
53. Ola Sikström 4 Apr
54. Pádraig Brady 4 Apr
55. Luis Miguel Portillo Barrera 4 Apr
56. Charles Wise 4 Apr
57. Sebastian Bober 4 Apr
58. Anonymous 4 Apr
59. Pierre Boulenguez 4 Apr
60. Alan Arthur 4 Apr
61. John Treffer 4 Apr
62. Anonymous 4 Apr
63. Anonymous 4 Apr
64. christophe cazin 4 Apr
65. Anonymous 4 Apr
66. Eric Sink 4 Apr
67. Anonymous 4 Apr
68. Anonymous 4 Apr
69. Johannes Rau 4 Apr
70. Boris Kolev 4 Apr
71. tim koski 4 Apr
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75. Donna Benjamin 4 Apr
76. Aleksander Tarkowski 5 Apr
77. Anonymous 5 Apr
78. Jakub Klawiter 5 Apr
79. Francois Huot 5 Apr
80. Mathias Bavay 5 Apr
81. Brianna Laugher 5 Apr
82. Jacques LEHMANN 5 Apr
83. Nikolaj Petersen 5 Apr
84. Ben Baston 5 Apr
85. Anonymous 5 Apr
86. Kacper Gunia 5 Apr
87. Matteo Settenvini 5 Apr
88. David Nielsen 5 Apr
89. Joby Joseph 5 Apr
90. Simon Breth 5 Apr
91. Anonymous 6 Apr
92. Anonymous 6 Apr
93. Xavier Verne 6 Apr
94. Mark Daggett 6 Apr
95. Anonymous 6 Apr
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97. Eric W Work 6 Apr
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100. Christoph Schröder 6 Apr
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102. Mathias Linden 6 Apr
103. Martin Boisjoly 7 Apr
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105. CAROLINA LOPEZ 7 Apr
106. Charalampos Emmanouilidis 7 Apr
107. Johan Blome 7 Apr
108. Huw Lynes 8 Apr
109. JAKE RAYSON 8 Apr
110. David G. Sarnowski 8 Apr
111. Louis Desjardins 8 Apr
112. Francesco Macaluso 8 Apr
113. Benjamin Hagen 8 Apr
114. Juan Rey 8 Apr
115. James Louvau 8 Apr
116. Ulrich Weis 8 Apr
117. Chad Godfirnon 8 Apr
118. Martin Olsson 8 Apr
119. ANDREA CANONICO 8 Apr
120. Sven Lankes 8 Apr
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131. Caspar von Wrede 9 Apr
132. Lukasz Jernas 9 Apr
133. Anonymous 9 Apr
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135. Anonymous 9 Apr
136. Andy Fitzsimon 9 Apr
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161. Stefan Drees 11 Apr
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165. Anonymous 12 Apr
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168. Séverin Lemaignan 12 Apr
169. Frode Jensen 12 Apr
170. Anonymous 12 Apr
171. Osmo Maatta 12 Apr
172. Matthew Flaschen 12 Apr
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174. Tobias Lippert 13 Apr
175. Mary Tomich 13 Apr
176. Russell Dodd 13 Apr
177. IrishGirl 13 Apr
178. Ernest Hammett 13 Apr
179. Anonymous 13 Apr
180. Ingo Bormuth 13 Apr
181. Anonymous 13 Apr
182. Alex Fraser 13 Apr
183. andreasn 14 Apr
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185. Loïc Alejandro 14 Apr
186. John Bintz 14 Apr
187. Rulkov Andrey 14 Apr
188. Stefaan Lippens 14 Apr
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190. Andrew Kuchling 14 Apr
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