Libre Graphics Meeting - LGM 2009 Montréal

Wednesday 6th May 2009

9:00 - 9:30	Louis Desjardins Opening Talk
9:35 - 10:05	Michael Terry, GIMP ingimp: A Smorgasbord of Usability, Adaptive UIs, and Visually Arresting Graphic Design for 2009
10:10 - 10:40	Benoit St-André LTSP and graphics applications
10:45 - 11:15	Sébastien Roy Multi-projector immersive displays: the LightTwist project
14:50 - 15:20	Stani Michiels How to make money with free software...
15:25 - 15:55	Jon Cruz, Inkscape Why Color Management matters to Open Source and to You
16:10 - 16:40	Gregory Pittman, Scribus Scribus: The Official Manual
16:45 - 17:15	Dave Crossland Towards a Collaborative WebOS
17:20 - 17:50	Andreas Vox, Scribus Future Directions for Scribus - An Open Discussion

Thursday 7th May 2009

9:00 - 9:30	Ludivine Loiseau One Open Source Publishing year, or
9:35 - 10:05	Alessandro Rimoldi, Scribus Libre graphics teaching and certificating
10:10 - 10:40	Jon Phillips Creating in the Cloud and Other Tales of Design Realidad
10:45 - 11:15	Ginger Coons Ownership and Standards: Why Designers are Slow to Adopt Open Source
14:15 - 14:45	Jean-François Fortin Tam How to Inflict Trauma on your Audience
14:50 - 15:20	Benoit St-André Discussion about the Impacts of Design Decision on Software Usage and Adoption
15:25 - 15:55	peter sikking, GIMP GIMP UI: taking some big issues by the horns
16:45 - 17:15	Stéphane Graber Keeping in touch with Ubuntu
17:20 - 17:50	Andrew Waring Open Source and Money: Not Mutually Exclusive
18:30 - ...	Markus Weiland FacetZoom

Friday 8th May 2009

9:00 - 9:30	Andrew Mihal Enblend/Enfuse Technology Talk
9:35 - 10:05	Martin Poirier, Blender Blender Dev Talk: 2.5 and looks on the future
10:10 - 10:40	Jon Cruz, Inkscape Inkscape v0.47 and Beyond
10:45 - 11:15	Pierre Marchand, Fontmatrix Selecting fonts
14:15 - 14:45	Doug Schepers SCOUR: an SVG scrubber Michael Terry Kinematic Templates Kaveh Bazargan Running a business around free software
14:50 - 15:20	Andrew Mihal, Hugin Nona-GPU: Image Remapping on the Graphics Processor
15:25 - 15:55	Nicolas Robidoux VIPS: An image processing system for large, and not so large, images
16:10 - 16:40	Jean-François Fortin Tam PiTiVi: an overview of a FOSS video editor's history and design
16:45 - 17:15	Bassam Kurdali, Blender Short Tube, Free Pipeline Distributed animation Production using Blender and Helga
17:20 - 17:50	Dave Crossland, Open Font Library Open Font Library 2.0
18:30 - ...	Great LGM Supper / Grand souper LGM

Saturday 9th May 2009

9:00 - 9:30	Chris Lilley Fonts, formats, CSS and libre graphics
9:35 - 10:05	Yuval Levy, Hugin Vedutismo Nuovo: New Tools for Panoramic Perspective Control
10:10 - 10:40	Bassam Kurdali, Blender Video Editing with Blender for non 3D artists, using examples from real projects
10:45 - 11:15	Igor Novikov, Sk1 sK1 v0.9: ready for prepress!
14:15 - 14:45	Øyvind Kolås, GIMP Stopmotion Dave Crossland Shoebot Nicolas Spalinger, Open Font Library libre/open font community: the challenges
14:50 - 15:20	Cedric Gémy Made With Floss
15:25 - 15:55	Andy Fitzsimon, Inkscape Remote talk
16:10 - 16:40	Louis Desjardins Closing Talk

Remarks:

On the first day, the LGM will open at 8:30 (pick up the badge, registration for the supper, ...)
Talks will be scheduled each day from 9:00 to 11:15 and from 14:50 to 17:40.
Each session will last 30 minutes, with 5 minutes recovery time inbetween.
There will be a lightning talks session each day from 14:15 to 14.45
The Great LGM Supper will be on friday night and will cost CAD $ 30 (wine or beer included)
Those who miss the program draft can find it here

The list of the talks is a tiny part of what will happen at the Libre Graphics Meeting: you can have a look at the list of participants which have allowed us to show their name, you may find people you might want to talk to!