Re: [ft-devel] Libre Graphics Meeting 2014: Call For Paper

Quick reminder that the call for papers is closing in a few weeks :)

On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:28:06 UTC-5, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> Hi! 
>
> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/?p=199 
>
> The Call for Participation has now been published! 
>
> For this year we are especially interested in presentations that 
> showcase how the gap between technical and design development can be 
> bridged. 
>
> We are looking for: 
>
> In-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies 
> Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools 
> New projects in this area to meet the wider community 
> Reports, use-cases, best practices 
> New emerging media; breaking free from analog constraints 
> Well articulated ideas for future approaches, tools and standards 
>
> Available formats are: 
>
> Lightning talk (10 minutes, selected at the event unconference style) 
> Presentations (20 minutes extendable to 40 minutes) 
> Entry for State of the Libre Graphics Union (1-2 slides) 
> Workshops (2 hours or more) 
> Birds Of a Feather (BOF), discussion meetings or Hackathons (2 hrs or 
> more) 
>
> The 2014 Libre Graphics Meeting will be held April 2 – 5 in Leipzig, 
> Germany at Universität Leipzig. 
>
> Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2014 
>
> Selection notifications by: 25 January 2014 at the latest. 
>
> http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/?page_id=165 
>
>
> The Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 will take place 2. – 5. April 2014 in 
> Leipzig, Germany. 
> This yearly event is an occasion for projects and individual 
> contributors/artists from all over the world to work together, to 
> share experiences and to hear about new ideas. 
>
> By Libre Graphics we mean Free, Libre and Open Source tools for 
> design, illustration, photography, typography, art, graphics, page 
> layout, publishing, cartography, animation, video, interactive media, 
> generative graphics and visual live-coding. The Libre Graphics Meeting 
> is not just about software, but extends to standards, file formats and 
> actual use of these in creative work. 
> We are looking for: 
>
> In-depth presentations on Libre Graphics technologies 
> Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools 
> New projects in this area to meet the wider community 
> Reports, use-cases, best practices 
> New emerging media; breaking free from analog constraints 
> Well articulated ideas for future approaches, tools and standards 
>
> Available formats (including questions): 
>
> Lightning talk (10 minutes, selected at the event unconference style) 
> Presentations (20 minutes extendable to 40 minutes) 
> Entry for State of the Libre Graphics Union (1-2 slides) 
> Workshops (2 hours or more) 
> Birds Of a Feather (BOF), discussion meetings or Hackathons (2 hrs or 
> more) 
>
> State of the Libre Graphics Union: 
> We will kick off this year’s event with a joint session that sums up 
> all things that have happened in our wide landscape over the last 
> year. Instead of slots in the schedule for general updates on each and 
> every libre graphics project, we invite you to submit a maximum of two 
> slides, show-casing new abilities and/or text enumerating the leaps 
> forward that your project made. 
>
> Special focus: 
> For the 2014 edition of LGM, we are specifically interested in 
> presentations that showcase how the gap between technical and design 
> development can be bridged. We are looking for contributions on 
> computational and generative media; examples of projects where design 
> decisions and experimentation is done directly with logic and code or 
> indirectly with the end user providing constraints/selection of good 
> results. We are interested in projects where design and development 
> are considered necessary ingredients in a collaborative process done 
> by peers of technological artists, using and pushing the constraints 
> of creative work. 
> Practical Details: 
>
> Call opens Monday 25. November 2014 
>
> Deadline: 15. January 2014. We will let you know if your presentation 
> is selected by 25. January 2014 latest. 
>
> In the context of the meeting, we prefer short and concise presentations. 
>
> For each BOF or meeting that will be on the public schedule, we ask 
> you to provide a report, to be made available to the Libre Graphics 
> Community afterwards. 
>
> If you propose a workshop, let us know what you expect participants to 
> bring, in terms of both prior experience and required items 
> (sketchbook, laptop with which applications installed, etc.) 
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers 
> Dave 
>

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