SIGGRAPH

June 6, 2006 5:18 pm Dave Neary gimp, gnome, marketing

I can finally lift the veil on something that I’ve been involved with for a while now…

The Blender Foundation, the GNOME Foundation, the GIMP developers and the Uni-verse consortium have grouped together to hire and build a giant 20×30 island booth in the main aisle of the SIGGRAPH trade show in Boston in August. We had some help from an anonymous donor, and Ton has done a huge amount of work pulling all the strings together.

I’m really excited about this – SIGGRAPH is a huge show, and free software will be right in the middle of it – no more skulking in the corner of the “Open Source Exhibition” where the organisers hide the guys who can’t afford to be in the main hall and give then a 6×6 space to put up a computer – we have prime real estate.

I have all sorts of ideas about how GNOME and the GIMP can use this opportunity – from hob-nobbing with Hollywood types to showing off XGL, Cairo and all of the user interface work that people in the project have been doing.

I’ll be looking for volunteers over the next few weeks to halp with the stand – keep the dates in your mind when taking your Summer holidays – July 30th to August 3rd (exhibition from 1st to 3rd), Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

4 Responses

  1. Eddy Mulyono Says:
    June 7th, 2006 at 3:25 am

    First, Project Orange. Then this. Great news!

    I would have helped if I live around Boston.

    Have fun at SIGGRAPH.

  2. Thomas Thurman Says:
    June 7th, 2006 at 5:55 am

    This is so exciting! Best of luck!

  3. Christine Says:
    June 7th, 2006 at 6:24 am

    Sweet, I might drop by sometime since my summer job might end up with me getting a free pass to the conference. :)

  4. Andy Fitzsimon Says:
    June 7th, 2006 at 7:10 am

    Bloody hell dave this is brilliant. Congrtulations .

    I thought pippin would be the only gimp presence at Siggraph, now this!

    Sweet mate