Libre Graphics Meeting. Was AWESOME!
We’ve just had the Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France. It was awesome.
Lots got achieved , people got pumped up, pixels were pushed, beziers were bent and meshes got made.
I’m very stoaked that a conference containing this much synergy between groups I love to participate was made possible.
Dave and the sponsors have earned some serious street cred with me that I wont soon forget. Thanks guys!
Bdale, Carl, Bryce & JonCruz. In the background there you can see dave hustling it.
Xara LX is going to change the landscape for open source vector compositing and possibly the entire open source desktop if they’re willing 
*nudge nudge.
Cedric Gemy is such a rad dude in person.
Meeting JonCruz, ReJon and Bryce makes me wish we did keysigning. So many of us have now met in person that being obsessive compulsive about security almost seems feasable.
Look at JonCruz as he watches Marti’s LCMS talk. Thats inspiration to implement colourmanagement in inkscape brewing.
And we’re well on the way now.
I went out to dinner with the GIMP gang on my last night in Lyon and we tore up the town. Libre style.
Obligatory Koala shot. Lyon is a beautiful city. The architecture is completely different to anything i’ve grown up with. Oh, if you want the authentic Lyon experience book to stay at the Hotel Iris, its near the Hotel De Ville subway stop and only $50 euros per night built in an old convent.
Oh yeah, and the following week I got to do some important ‘research’ in paris visiting galleries that I’d only read about. Aren’t open source conferences awesome?!!
April 11th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Sounds like the lot of you had a hell of a time there. Did you get to see the modern art museum in Paris too (it’s name temporarily escaped me)?
Very cool.