Call for Presentations Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
Last week we opened the Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 website for presentation submissions (along with Andy’s awesome new header graphic show above). Please submit your talk! Don’t wait until the last minute, because we need to know how much money we need to allocate for travel. We are raising funds to support travel of supported talks and developers. We are quite eager to put this conference on this year and I’m very happy to be pushing the event towards more web-based autonomo.us projects with the rejuvenated Open Clip Art Library pushing hard. Please submit your presentation proposals now.
If you can’t make it, or you use free and open source graphics tools, please help support the premiere event for free and open source graphics applications. We need your continued support! We’ve raised ~ $4000 USD towards our $15,000 goal from the community. That is 100 supportive people who have supported the conference. If you have a business or want to donate a larger sum, we have sponsorship packages as well which will give you link love and more attention from our communities.
Please spread the announcement below far and wide! You will be rewarded with respect 
Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), the premiere workshop and conference for developers and enthusiasts of free software graphics, will be held May 6-9, 2009, at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
LGM invites you to share your work with the community. Topics of interest include reports on major open source graphics projects, technology previews, engineering talks, power-user techniques, graphics business best practices, and general issues such as open file formats and collaboration.
Interested projects and individuals should submit proposals for presentations, demonstrations, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions by visiting the talk submission page at the CREATE project wiki. Proposals should be at most two paragraph abstracts and should include any special technical requirements.
Individuals who already plan to attend can now register free of charge at the LGM Web site.
The call for participation ends April 1, so don’t delay!
About Libre Graphics Meeting:
For four years, the Libre Graphics Meeting has been the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of free software graphics applications. Developers from projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of brushes and other assets, and common formats.
The face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to developers, but LGM offers plenty for end users as well. Tutorials, talks, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) meetings to help free software users get the most out of their applications fill out the LGM schedule, and demonstrations from artists showcase what is possible.
For more information, visit www.libregraphicsmeeting.org
To support LGM 2009’s community fundraising campaign, visit pledgie.com/campaigns/2926
