From: Calvin Williamson <calvin@rhythm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:48:05 -0700
To: gimp-developer@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu
Subject: [gimp-devel] siggraph 99 and gimp


Hey Folks:

This years siggraph in LA is August 8-13. The exhibit days are T,W,Th August
10-12. (http://www.siggraph.org/s99)

Ive made some enquiries and we can have a gimp SIG (special interest group)
meeting without paying any money. (The conference costs though). I have a form
we have to submit to reserve a spot. 

It would be nice if made this for any and all gimp users/developers and would
basically be a reserved room that we can meet in for a couple of hours. If we
get our form in soon, it will probably be listed in various programs/schedules.

Anyway we're free to organize our SIG anyway we want... Im sure we can do that
fine. But what I wanted to find out was a guess at how many people we might
get, and what times would be best. I need this for the forms to send in to set
this up.

Heres some considerations: 

The exhibits/papers/courses usually run to about 5 or 6 each day. 

The Exhibit is T-Th.  Papers are Wed-Fri.  Courses are Sun-Tues. 

IMHO a good time might be something like 5:30-7:30 PM on Tues or Wed, which
lessons the chance that it will actually overlap with anything else you might
want to do.

As for number, Yosh "guessed" that we wouldnt get more than 40 people.

If all this sounds good, Ill fill out the forms accordingly and send them in in
a week or so.  If not let me know what you think.

In case your interested in conference costs:
http://www.siggraph.org/s99/registration/catNfees.html. 

($25 for exhibit only, but other stuff is pretty expensive.)

Last year the Linux3d group had a good meeting I think. (I missed it cause I
didnt know about it though...)

Calvin