rejon is Jon Phillips.

Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM2010) is a great conference! If your paper is accepted, we sponsor your travel! We want more artists, more content, and quality at LGM2010 this year. We have many surprises, guests, friends and Belgian Beers to be had.

Its the place where FLOSS developers and users come together to make the world’s open source creative apps better. And this year, we are pushing hard on goals and priorities for our projects, collectively.

My personal goal, much like last year is to release the projects I’ve made myself accountable for and to get more creative apps onto the web.

Its not too late to donate to our community campaign! Also, May 1 is the ultimate deadline for submitting a talk! Please do both! I

Here is some more from the Fabricatorz-based press release (and note, we have a special place as well for all those press people who want to attend LGM2010):

San Francisco and Brussels, Thursday 15 April 2010 – Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual working conference for the free software graphics application community. Developers from the full spectrum of graphics applications — image editors, photography, 3-D and 2-D animation, vector art, graphic design, typography – collaborate with each other on interoperability, push the state of the art in application functionality and user experience, and get important face-to-face interaction with users.

LGM 2010 will take place between May 27 and 30th at De Pianofabriek in Brussels, Belgium. Developers from GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, the Open Font Library, and other open source projects are scheduled to appear. Technical talks will showcase new work in digital asset management, natural-media simulation, and internationalized font design. The program will also emphasize real-world usage of open source graphics software in professional publishing houses, multimedia production, and both the secondary education and art school classroom. Developers, users, or community members who would like to give a talk at LGM 2010 are encouraged to submit a proposal by following the instructions at http://libregraphicsmeeting.org. The deadline for submissions is May 1.

Please help us at http://libregraphicsmeeting.org to get the word out by re-blogging and re-peating the post to your networks! And, submit your talk.

There are so many people in town and so little time! With our CEO, Evan Prodromou here for a couple of weeks and all the Pre-Chirp and Chizzurp excitement, all of us in the SF StatusCrew decided we needed some face2face hacking and a StatusCheck, VIP style.

This Friday, April 16, we invite you to our new San Francisco Office at Awesome Jar from 2 – 6 PM to hack with us. That’s right! Its a (FREE and OPEN) StatusNet Hackfest that will segue into a StatusCheck drink meetup in the VIP at the Cigar Bar nearby from 6 PM until at least 8 PM.

Since our software, the StatusNet Server Software is Free and Open Source Software, we have an Open Twitter compatible API, and since we track our bugs, features, and code out in the open, its simple to hack on StatusNet’s code. Come on Friday and work directly with @evan, @zach, @nate, and @rejon who will all be hacking up a storm. To all Twitter developers in town, come on over and lets get StatusNet support added to your hard work.

Hackfest Priorities

Setup Your Own http://status.net (anyone who contributes here, contact us!)
SpreadStatusNet (help spread the love!)
Make Themes
Add OStatus Support to Your Project
Develop Plugins (quick list to implement Supported Networks)
Translate StatusNet Software
Do a Novice Task

StatusNet Hackfest, 2-6 PM. Friday, April 16
AwesomeJar
615 Sansome Street #300
San Francisco, CA 94111
TEL 415-692-5271

StatusCheck Meetup, 6-8 PM
Cigar Bar
850 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94133

Map of both locations

Until then, please Sign-up to StatusNet Cloud Service and download the latest StatusNet Server code. See you on Friday!

For the last four years, the Inkscape, Scribus, Gimp, Blender, Krita, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library and other Free and Open Source Graphics communities have come together to make an annual developer and users conference. The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual workshop for developers and users of free software graphics applications to collaborate and advance the cause of high-quality free graphics software. The fourth annual LGM will be held May 27 – 30, 2010 in Brussels.

We are seeking sponsorship in a campaign we are calling “10 by 10 by 10″ which will allow us to put on this event. We have already raised $10K from Flemish Ministry for Culture, Youth, Sports and Media for government sponsorship and are trying to raise at least another $10K from corporations, and another $10K from the global community. Sponsorship will be used to provide travel subsidies to the developers who work on Free and Open Source Graphics projects around the world, often for free in their spare time and to help offset the cost of assembling the top developers and users of free and open source graphics software to make it better. LGM is THE annual meeting they need to coordinate their efforts towards better applications and better integration between applications. For most teams, LGM is the only moment these people will be able to talk between eyes. It’s not only important, it’s crucial work.

For 2010, we are providing sponsorship levels which we hope you will consider:

Platinum (Greater than 10K $USD)
Your company logo and link on each page of the website: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010
Once sponsorship received, will be thanked in email communications and press releases
Special Press Release to announce support together
Special dinner with all LGM Organizing Committee Members if representative attends the conference

Gold (10K $USD)
Your company logo and link on each page of the website: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010
Once sponsorship received, will be thanked in email communications and press releases
Special dinner with all LGM Organizing Committee Members if representative attends the conference

Silver (5K $USD)
Your company logo and link on sponsors page of the website
Thanked in a sponsorship announcement release
Bronze (3K $USD)
Your company logo and link on sponsors page of the website

And, if you or your company want to contribute under $3K, we hope you will consider personally or through your organization to contribute to the community fundraising campaign we kicked off a month ago. Pledges can be made online at Pledgie.com. Visit http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926 to make a contribution. All donations are tax deductible for US taxpayers since the Gnome Foundation is graciously hosting our donations.

For our community fundraising campaign we have raised approximately $2,500.00 USD towards our goal of $10K with 42 supporters in about a month. It is still tough to raise funds this year, but we are encouraged by the responses received. We are tenacious in our efforts to put this conference on for the benefit of all. In addition to the community campaign, we are asking you and your organization to contribute towards our goal of $10K from large donors and other organizations. We hope that you and/or your company will help sponsor Libre Graphics Meeting 2010.

With the growing, but still tough economy, many companies, governments and people are turning to Free and Open Source Software. We are committed to improving Free and Open Source Graphics and getting more people to use the software we, including you and your organization, make together.

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, and 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 http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/