rejon is Jon Phillips.

Christopher and I are in Beijing because Fabricatorz are supporting the China Mozilla Drumbeat Hackfest Wednesday through Friday. Tonite, Wednesday night, I will be the MC’ing the Mozilla Firefox 4 Launch party. We had to change venues because so many people registered for coming! Its from 9:30 until 11:30 PM. Shenyue will be dj’ing, and I will plug the milkymist1, the first real open source microprocessor, in for the night. Many VIPs will be coming to the event like Zafka, Creative Commons China friends, and many many more. Come on out tonite to Beijing for the party!

Wen Jin Hotel B1, Chamber bar (The hotel is close to Tsing Hua South Gate.)
北京市海淀区中关村东路一号清华科技园文津国际酒店地下一层璨酒吧（文津酒店
在清华南门旁边）

Its not too late to come to the free party (free drinks, snacks and gifts like g-fox shirts and other fun mozilla gifts).

Thursday and Friday Mozilla Drumbeat Hackfest

Over on Fabricatorz, we announced more about the hackfest on Thursday and Friday. We need more free and open source developers. We really need web developers. If you know Mozilla technologies or want to learn, please do come to the hackfest on thursday and friday. Christopher and I will be hacking alongside Chinese and International developers on the theme of the open web and cyberscience.

Here is some info from the press release:

The main two days of the Hackfest on March 22 – 23 are focused on “citizen cyberscience” which includes volunteer computing projects such as SETI@home, BOINC, CAS@home, and LHC@home. These projects all leverage the power of distributed computing to aid basic scientific research.

A Drumbeat Hackfest is a live collaborative event where tools and technologies that support the open web are designed and created. The 2011 China Drumbeat welcomes the participation of developers with skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data visualization, distributed computing, mobile computing and online gaming. Participating developers can take advantage of this opportunity to aid the scientific community and increase public uptake of volunteer computing using the latest in web technologies.

The Hackfest opens on March 23, 2011 with an evening of speeches by Francois Grey, Coordinator of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre and initiator of the Africa@home and Asia@home citizen cyberscience projects; as well as team leaders from SETI@home, BOINC, CAS@home, LHC@home, EpiCollect, the Quake Catcher Network Project, and the Computing for Clean Water Project. Fabricatorz Christopher Adams and Jon Phillps are also in Beijing supporting and hacking at the event with the teams and creating news.

March 24 and 25 will see full-day hackfest sessions with scientists and developers to take on new challenges and help enhance volunteer computing through rapid software and product prototyping.

Did you see the video Eric made about sponsoring #lgm2011 featuring he and I? Check it out, and donate some scrilla for real’la ($$$)? If you want to see your favorite web and desktop based open source creative applications get better, this is a great way to make it real!

LGM Fundraiser from Schr.fr on Vimeo.

Cutting edge graphics software meets free culture

The Libre Graphics Meeting ( http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/ ) is an annual meeting for the users and developers of free and open source graphics software. It gives software developers, artists, designers and other graphics professionals the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other.

This video is part of LGM fundraiser ( http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610 ). Your hosts: Jon Philips and Eric Schrijver.

Other videos on Libre Graphics Meeting:

Recordings of last year’s talks
http://river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm-2010

Reclaim your tools, video by Jake
http://vimeo.com/18568225

Libre Graphics Meeting Q+A
http://activearchives.org/aa/qna/Libre_Graphics_Meeting/

We need you to come and speak. We pay for speakers travel. We need people to sponsor the conference.

Follow over to the Fabricatorz Announcement for the rest of the reality. Submit your paper!

This is one of two conference Fabricatorz and I support each year (the other having to do with Sharism!).

We need you! Email us if you have questions.

From the announcement:

Cutting edge creative tools meet free culture

May 10-13, Ecole Polytechnique Engineering School

Programmers and artists from around the world are headed to Montreal for the 6th annual Libre Graphics Meeting in May. The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual gathering for the users and developers of free and open source creative software: artistic tools that are free for anyone to use and modify. LGM gives software developers, artists, musicians, designers and other creative professionals the opportunity to collaborate, share their work and learn from each other.

A Preview

Every year, Libre Graphics Meeting focuses on individual and group interaction, emphasizing free media and the software that produces it. This year’s attendees can expect a similar format that will include workshops, presentations, demonstrations, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions. Leading up to the conference, special lab sessions bring developers and artists face-to-face to make improvements in creative software. Gaps can form when developers and their users don’t meet face to face; LGM gives artists and educators a voice in the building of their tools. Both content creators and developers will present, bringing a diverse community together to advance the technologies and strategies of high-quality free creative software.

Submit a talk!

LGM’s strength comes from the presenters who talk about their work and inspire others by sharing their experiences, techniques, and best practices. Whether you are a developer, an artist, or an enthusiast, you can be a part of this year’s event by sharing your story and your work.

The LGM community wants to hear your proposal for a session. Submit your idea any time between now and April 1, 2011 by visiting http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011/Submit_Talk