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Submitted by mir on April 18, 2007 - 11:09am
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Pata Macedo one of the students in my "building dynamic websites in a ridiculously short amount of time" class told me about this conference in MTL in early may.

http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/

We bring together developers and users of the best of free software graphics applications - Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Scribus, and more. 2007 promises to be a fun ride, with tutorials and presentations of applications, and lots of time and space to chat, meet up with old friends, make new ones. Plans will be made, hacking and drawing will be done, fun will be had.

Sound good to me, I am so addicted to Photoshop, maybe this will be the kick in the ace I need to stop relying so heavily on Macromedia image editing tools.

Copycamp Clarification

Submitted by mir on August 19, 2006 - 4:51pm
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I just bought the Custom Closet Kit at Canadian Tire. So Clearly this day has been brought to you by the hard C sound.

The good folks at Copycamp sent me an email to clarify the pricing structure for the conference.

Far be it for me to scandal-monger so here is the real deal with pricing for Copycamp.

One thing I want to clarify- $495 isn’t the price if you apply for a bursary. The price if you get a bursary is (in most cases) free. $495 is the early-registration price for people who pay their own way.

Trails and Tribulations conference

Submitted by mir on November 12, 2006 - 10:59pm
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I went to this conference over the week-end

Trials and tribulations of Internet Research

Favorite speakers included:

Negotiating Roles: Researching MMORPG’ s -Marinka Copier from the university of utrecht who studies WoW and teaches an entire masters course in-game. She was wicked, and had a really nice way of looking at her practice as wholistically tied to her work as an academic, and by practice here I am referring to her gaming. I am going to email her a bunch so I can apply to do a summer study program at UU. Add it to the list.

Deeply Geeky Recap

Submitted by mir on August 9, 2006 - 1:58pm
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Laura Scott wrote an excellent summary of the day 2 session I was incredibly lucky to participate in.

Geeks speak, and everything changes, if only a little bit.

I also thought the panel was one of the most enjoyable and not to sound to trite, totally rejuvenating experiences of my summer.

My hat goes off to the memorable woman who said; "I know how to play hardball with the geeks, I have a darwin fish tie and I wear it - But it's not the whole picture of who I am!".