On Mar 24, 2006, at 10:24 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Another approach is to have who ever is planning the next pd~conf
take control of the donations under the guise of whatever organization
that they are working for. I know Alexandre has talked about hosting
pd~conf at artengine in Ottawa, CA.I don't think he was serious about that =) Ottawa, ON is too
"small" for such a thing, and I'm including Gatineau, QC, across the bridge. I
mean "small" as in not enough Pd users. Ottawa and Gatineau together
might be one million people, but if you try to find Pd users, you only find
them at Ottawa U or Artengine.
Graz is 350,000, and it worked there. I don't think that would be
such an issue. Plus there are a lot of people who live near enough
Ottawa.
I have strong doubts about being able to do it in Montréal, QC, even though there are several organisms that are involved in Pd stuff
currently (Vidéographe, SAT, StudioXX).I think Montréal is still not ready for such an event, if it has to
be a reasonable sequel to PdConvention04.
Why not.
Right now I'd like to hear _why_ another Pd Convention should happen. Well, I mean, apart from being _damn_ _fun_...
To me, that's not really a question that needs to be asked, but I'll
answer it. So much can get accomplished in 10 minutes of face-to-
face discussion that would take days on the list. Plus its great
because we can all set aside a time to just listen to what everyone
is doing with Pd an focus on that.
Pd~conf 1.0 was drinking from the fire hose in an amazing way. In
our daily lives, we tend to be stuck in narrow circles, which a
narrow range of ideas that we come across. Pd~conf 1 covered such a
broad range, it took me in many directions I would never have gone
had I not attended.
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