Sponsors

The Libre Graphics Meeting is extremely thankful to all its sponsors and donors.
If your organization wants to help LGM achieve its goals, please review our sponsors’ levels at the bottom of this page or consider making a donation through our fundraising campaign.

Our main partner and host of LGM2014: Leipzig University

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Our Communities

A fair part of the support for LGM comes from the communities of all the participating projects, who annually contribute through a crowdfunding campaign to the Libre Graphics Meeting. This money is primarily used to support the participants, by helping to reimburse their travel costs. We are thankful to all our donors. Each donation really makes a difference. If you want to help us a step further, go on and percolate this campaign throughout your network!

Click here to lend your support to:  Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 and make a donation at pledgie.com !

Google

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GIMP

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GIMP – The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Publisher

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Swiss Journal for Publishing and Digital Printing

Red hat

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GUUG

The German Unix User Group, founded in 1984, is an association of adminstrators, programmers and IT specialists who use the UNIX operating system. For over 20 years GUUG has held national and international conferences, and publishes a magazine called UpTimes.

Commons Machinery

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Python Software Foundation

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The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.

LinuxFund

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Giving back to open source since 1999

 

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Sponsoring Libre Graphics Meeting

Since 2006, the Inkscape, Scribus, GIMP, Blender, Krita, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library and other Free and Open Source Graphics communities have come together to make an annual developer and users conference. The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the annual meeting for developers and users of free software graphics applications to collaborate and advance the cause of high-quality free graphics software. The 9th annual LGM will be held April 2-5, 2014 in Leipzig, Germany.

We are seeking sponsorship that will allow us to put on this event. We are trying to raise at least $20K from corporations or foundations that support open source software development, and another $12K from the global community. Sponsorship will be used to provide travel subsidies to the speakers at LGM, the developers and contributors who work on Free and Open Source Graphics projects around the world, often for free in their spare time and to help offset the cost of assembling the top developers and users of free and open source graphics software to make it better. LGM is the annual meeting they need to coordinate their efforts towards better applications and better integration between applications. For most teams, LGM is the only moment these people will be able to talk between eyes. It’s not only important, it’s crucial work.

The Libre Graphics Meeting organisation provides sponsorship levels which we hope you will consider:

Platinum USD $5,000.00
Your company logo and link on sponsors page of the website.
Thanked in a sponsorship announcement release and in all press releases

Gold USD $3,000.00
Your company logo and link on sponsors page of the website.

Silver USD $1,000.00
Your link on sponsors page of the website.

Bronze USD $500.00
Your name on sponsors page of the website.

And, if you or your company want to contribute under $500.00, we hope you will consider personally or through your organization to contribute to the community fundraising campaign.

With the growing, but still tough economy, many companies, governments and people are turning to Free and Open Source Software. We are committed to improving Free and Open Source Graphics and getting more people to use the software we, including you and your organization, make together.

Contacts:
Louis Desjardins
Nathan Willis
Sirko Kemter