LILA is a non-profit organization, under French law 1901, declared and funded in 2005.
We promote Arts and Artists, as well as access to technics and knowledge for everyone.
The association has its headquarters at 7 bis, rue Saint Hilaire
in Poitiers. If you like what we do, do not hesitate to send
postcards or other nice mail! 🤗
As already advertized a few days ago, we remind that we are present at the
Ubuntu Party this week-end.
Saturday May 30 at 17h15: talk about the association, our activities (Libre
Art, creative Free Software, projects…) and in particular about our ongoing
project ZeMarmot.
Come and ask us questions if you have any!
A group of students contacted us to promote their very cool project.
They are organizing a tour of France with a series of animation workshops for
handicapped children.
Ils nous ont dit que le film qui en résultera sera diffusé par la suite sous
Then even told us that the resulting movie will be released as
Creative Commons BY 4.0 afterwards!
This campaign definitely suits our values (creativity, arts, freedom and helping
kids…), so we wish them all success possible!
Do you want to contribute to their funding, it's there!
Note: this news is about a workshop series which will be done mostly in
France. This may not be of much interest to read if you are not there!
LDN (Lorraine Data Network, an
associative Internet provider in France) launched a "sticker album" project.
We are not sure how common these are abroad, but in France, these were very
common entertainment for kids. The principle is to buy the album with empty
places waiting for specific stickers, and you would later buy stickers, hoping
to get your missing ones (therefore finishing your album!). There is a company
in particular which does a lot of such albums but it is
not involved in this project in any way.
Free Software and OpenSource people are kind of "geeky" when it comes to stickers. They tend to
over-stick their laptops! So LDN's idea was: why not make a sticker album for
FLOSS geeks? At first, we just thought it was a cool project and sent LDN our first sticker
to be in the Libre Album.
Sticker of LILA association, by Aryeom (CC by-sa).
Then we discussed with LDN and realized that whereas they know a lot about
networks (of course!), they don't know that much about designing, page layout
and publishing. We do, thus:
LILA will help the community to create the album together with LDN
Doing this alone would not be very funny, and this does not get the actual message
of LILA far enough: getting the knowledge, the resources and the technical tools for creation to anyone.
This is why we are organizing a series of workshops in France, to explain
everyone how to design and layout by themselves. Anyone is invited
to participate, no minimum level required.
We will explain color management, what is all the fuss about RGB vs CMYK, what
are bleeds and margins for, what are solid colors, maybe speak about
color-blindness, etc.
Of course we don't know everything, far from it, and some of our knowledge may
be lacking, so we welcome anyone with more knowledge than us and wishing to
discuss and spread it!
We will mostly work with Scribus for the layout, but also GIMP and Inkscape for any last-minute
creativity needs!
Cité des sciences et de l’industrie
Carrefour Numérique²
30 Avenue Corentin Cariou
75019 Paris
The workshop will be held in the Fablab, from 2PM.
RMLL in Beauvais on July 7.
We will present shortly the project at 10:40 AM, then will head to the
Graphics room to actually run the workshop the rest of the day.
If you have a place where you want to have this workshop, don't hesitate to
contact us!
If you are another association or project mostly tied to France, do not hesitate
to send your stickers to operationpanini [CHEZ] ldn-fai.net and you'll be in
the album.
Note that LILA is very international and the fact that this sticker album is
France-focused is because that would be already quite an awful lot of work!
Associations and projects related to Free Software, Libre Art, Open Networks, Open Hardware,
etc. are so many in France that we will fill several dozen pages already.
But we can take this as an experiment. If it works well and other countries are
interested, do not hesitate to reproduce the workshops! There is no copyright on
ideas! :-)
I just hope you'll send us a copy of your finished album though. Then we will
start collecting Libre sticker albums from every country. :P
