Dr. Apps is Headed to the Libre Graphics Meeting
Hot on the heels of my first (and second) plane trip in 15 years, I’m headed to Montreal for the Libre Graphics Meeting (aka LGM). This time though, I’m traveling via car. LGM 2009 (May 6-9) is the fourth annual worldwide meeting of teams developing open source graphics applications. The developers of extremely popular applications like Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, Hugin, Scribus and many more will be in attendance.
I guess it’ll be like going to your favorite band’s concert, except the rock stars are the developers of the applications you love and recommend. Educators, designers and graphic artists involved in print production and/or web development will also be attending. This is a great opportunity for people to share ideas, success stories and even figure out solutions to problems they may be having.
According to Louis Desjardins, lead organizer of the meeting, for many of the developers attending, this is the one time a year they get to see each other face to face. So, as excited I am to be going for the first (of many) times, I’m sure everyone else is just as excited.
I’m proud to say that OpenCandy is a sponsor of the event and I will be conducting a session entitled “Open Source & Money: Not Mutually Exclusive.” Sponsorships and community donations (through Pledgie) help pay for travel and lodging costs for the developers attending. The Pledgie campaign for LGM 2009 has ended, but when it starts for LGM 2010, I’ll be sure to tweet and blog about it. It’s a nice way to give something back to the people who work hard making awesome software we get to enjoy for free.
This also gives me the opportunity to find out what people outside of OpenCandy think about how well my avatar matches my physical appearance (I think it’s pretty darn close).
Follow LGM on Twitter for updates during the meeting. You can find me here.
Be well! Catch you on the app side. :)
