Hi,

GIMP is approaching the end of another development cycle and we will have to start making plans about the future. It seems like a good idea to get the active developers together and that's why we decided that there will be another GIMP developers conference this summer. A lot of you probably already heard about it but there hasn't been an official announcement yet, so that's what this mail is supposed to be. We are thus happy to invite to

The GIMP Developers Conference 7/8/9/10th August 2003

We have choosen to have the conference at the Chaos Communication Camp which is an international hacker open air gathering that takes place near Berlin (Germany). There's a first web-site online and we suggest you take a look at the pics from 1999, when the first camp was held at the very same location:

http://www.ccc.de/camp/ http://www.ccc.de/camp/1999/

As you can see, this is an outdoor event with a few thousand hackers camping on a field near Berlin. There will be electrical power and internet available all over the place. There is a small lake nearby, food and drinks are sold for reasonable prices, there will be music and everything is a lot like a hippie event but with computers all over the place.

There are a number of reasons to have the conference being part of this event. First, the camp offers the infrastructure we need. There's internet, food and a place to put your tent (or caravane). Of course there's an entrance fee for the camp (which is not yet determined but is expected to be about Euro 100). Hotel rooms would however be more expensive and certainly a lot less fun.

The camp will offer a lot of lectures and workshops (which are all supposed to be in english). There will be three large tents for talks accompaigned by smaller tents where people get together on specific topics. The GIMP is supposed to be one of these topics. So we will have a GIMP tent which means we have our own place to talk GIMPy things and interested people can just step in and join us. Hopefully this will attract some new contributors to the GIMP project.

We expect to get our costs (mainly for the tent) convered by fundings and hopefully we will also be able to help a few selected developers with their travel costs. Don't expect too much however; I've already started to ask for fundings and it seems to be a lot more difficult compared to the last conference that we had in summer 2000. Perhaps we should consider to raise some money thru a PayPal system or thru LinuxFund but let's get back to this topic later...

Right now I only ask everyone interested to come up with possible questions, to ask your boss for vacation and to look for travel possibilities.

Salut, Sven

Hi GIMPers,

I already posted a similar announcement to gimp-developer and gimp-gegl some time ago but since I'm including more lists now, I will have to repeat myself a little; I hope you don't mind.

GIMP is approaching the end of another development cycle and we will have to start making plans about the future. It seems like a good idea to get the active developers together and that's why we decided that there will be another GIMP developers conference this summer. We are thus happy to invite to

The GIMP Developers Conference 7/8/9/10th August 2003

We have choosen to have the conference at the Chaos Communication Camp which is an international hacker open air gathering that takes place near Berlin (Germany). There's a website dedicated to this event and actually this website is a Wiki [1]. During this mail, I will point you to some interesting spots in this Wiki. Don't worry if the term Wiki doesn't ring a bell, you will figure it out.

The camp is an outdoor event with a few thousand hackers camping on a field near Berlin. There will be electrical power and internet available all over the place. There is a small lake nearby, food and drinks are sold for reasonable prices, there will be music and everything is a lot like a hippie event but with computers all over the place. But see for yourself:

https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/CampOverview

The camp will offer a lot of lectures and workshops (which are all supposed to be in english). There will be some large tents for talks accompaigned by smaller tents where people get together on specific topics. The GIMP is supposed to be one of these topics. So we will have a GIMP tent which means we have our own place to talk GIMPy things and interested people can just step in and join us. Hopefully this will also attract some new contributors to the GIMP project. We've already established some GimpCulture in the camp wiky system and suggest you start your journey from the

https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GimpTent

If you are interested to attend, you surely have more questions. Some of them may already be answered in the

https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GimpConFAQ

The GIMP Developers Conference [2] is mainly targetted at GIMP developers but the GIMP tent should give room for other GIMP related activities as well. There will be people from the GIMP Web Team [3] and we surely wouldn't mind to meet some Gimp users [4].

Please use the anarchistic publishing features that the Wiki offers and add your ideas, comments, questions,... to our Wiki pages.

Sven

[1] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/WhatIsAWiki [2] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GIMPDevelopersConference [3] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GIMPWebTeam [4] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GimpUsers

Hi,

Everyone here should have heard about the GIMP Developers Conference by now, Here are the relevant URLs again, in case you missed it:

https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/GimpTent https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/GIMPDevelopersConference

In order to proceed with further organization we need to get an idea about the number of people that will attend. If you want to participate in GIMP and/or Gegl development, please join the conference. We want to have all GIMP hackers together and we will try hard to make this happen.

Even if you think you will not be able to afford the journey, please check how much the travel would cost you and let us know. There's the chance that we will be able to get fundings for travel costs.

So, if you want to come and have the time to come, please fill out the little form below and send it back to sven@gimp.org. We need this numbers very soon now, so please try to get a rough estimate of the travel costs and reply quickly. We won't nail anyone on the numbers he/she provided here. We just need an approximation of the number of participants and the estimated costs right now.

I would like to combine this mail with a call for sponsorship. If you are reading this and there's money burning holes in your pocket, if you always felt like you needed to give something back for all the lucky moments you had thanks to The GIMP, or all the lucky customers you have thanks to The GIMP, this is your chance to help the GIMP project. If you think you can help or you think you know someone who could do, let me know.

Sven

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I want to join the GIMP Developers Conference 2003. Below I provided some information that you will need in order to organize the conference:

Name:
Email:
City:
Country:
Role: (GIMP developer would go well here, or GIMP help writer, or GEGL hacker, fanatic GIMP user, ...)

Estimated travel costs to Berlin and back home: (preferably in EUR or $)

[ ] I am rich, I don't need your money. [ ] I am a lucky, I asked my boss and he/she is sending me to Berlin to join the conference. [ ] I think I could pay some of the travel costs but I won't be able to attend unless I get some funding. [ ] I can't afford the journey, but I'd really like to come.

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Hi,

in order to organize fundings for the GIMP Developers Conference, I need those numbers very soon now. Please get your registration in as soon as possible. There is little chance that you will get any funding unless you reply until tomorrow.

I want to join the GIMP Developers Conference 2003. Below I provided some information that you will need in order to organize the conference:

Name:
Email:
City:
Country:
Role: (GIMP developer would go well here, or GIMP help writer, or GEGL hacker, fanatic GIMP user, ...)

Estimated travel costs to Berlin and back home: (preferably in EUR or $)

[ ] I am rich, I don't need your money. [ ] I am a lucky, I asked my boss and he/she is sending me to Berlin to join the conference. [ ] I think I could pay some of the travel costs but I won't be able to attend unless I get some funding. [ ] I can't afford the journey, but I'd really like to come.

Sven