Hi GIMPers, I already posted a similar announcement to gimp-developer and gimp-gegl some time ago but since I'm including more lists now, I will have to repeat myself a little; I hope you don't mind. GIMP is approaching the end of another development cycle and we will have to start making plans about the future. It seems like a good idea to get the active developers together and that's why we decided that there will be another GIMP developers conference this summer. We are thus happy to invite to The GIMP Developers Conference 7/8/9/10th August 2003 We have choosen to have the conference at the Chaos Communication Camp which is an international hacker open air gathering that takes place near Berlin (Germany). There's a website dedicated to this event and actually this website is a Wiki [1]. During this mail, I will point you to some interesting spots in this Wiki. Don't worry if the term Wiki doesn't ring a bell, you will figure it out. The camp is an outdoor event with a few thousand hackers camping on a field near Berlin. There will be electrical power and internet available all over the place. There is a small lake nearby, food and drinks are sold for reasonable prices, there will be music and everything is a lot like a hippie event but with computers all over the place. But see for yourself: https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/CampOverview The camp will offer a lot of lectures and workshops (which are all supposed to be in english). There will be some large tents for talks accompaigned by smaller tents where people get together on specific topics. The GIMP is supposed to be one of these topics. So we will have a GIMP tent which means we have our own place to talk GIMPy things and interested people can just step in and join us. Hopefully this will also attract some new contributors to the GIMP project. We've already established some GimpCulture in the camp wiky system and suggest you start your journey from the https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GimpTent If you are interested to attend, you surely have more questions. Some of them may already be answered in the https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GimpConFAQ The GIMP Developers Conference [2] is mainly targetted at GIMP developers but the GIMP tent should give room for other GIMP related activities as well. There will be people from the GIMP Web Team [3] and we surely wouldn't mind to meet some Gimp users [4]. Please use the anarchistic publishing features that the Wiki offers and add your ideas, comments, questions,... to our Wiki pages. Sven [1] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/WhatIsAWiki [2] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GIMPDevelopersConference [3] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GIMPWebTeam [4] https://wiki.camp.ccc.de/Camp/view/Main/GimpUsers