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Welcome, everyone. It's the first day of what is going to be quite an avalanche of talks, workshops, meetings, work sessions, and hopefully many other things. And so, welcome from wherever you are. We just, Aila just counted.
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We have 42 nationalities present here, which is quite staggering. We have people from Egypt, Bulgaria, Iraq, Switzerland, Germany, England, well, you name it, every country is somehow presented today,
00:40
tomorrow, the day after, or Sunday. So we will no doubt have to work between languages and to try to understand what we're all talking about. I want to open today with, after saying, bienvenue, welcome, welcome, in the three languages that are spoken
01:01
in this building normally, and pass the microphone to Louis Desjardins, who has been involved in demographics since long. Most of you, I don't have to introduce Louis because we all know him. But Louis, the mic is yours. Thank you.
01:21
Thank you, Femke. Okay, so I will just address a few words. You know, people know me. I'm involved in the LGM since the very beginning. Actually, I was in Lyon the first time.
01:41
And since then, we have organized the LGM in Montreal for two years. And so here I am again this year assisting remotely the team, the local team. So merci beaucoup, Femke, pour cette organization.
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Okay, so with just a few words, we had a very interesting discussion yesterday night. Here, it was like the launch of the pre-LGM launch discussion about reclaiming our tools with regards to education,
02:22
what kind of interaction can this, can occur with this, and what does it mean to have our tools in hand? And with regards to education,
02:43
so the question will be answered, I guess, throughout the whole LGM. I have no answer to this. People suggested that there is a gap between the artistic world and the people that make the tools
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or the technical world. And I was listening to all this discussion. I was thinking, well, in all the history of art, the artists have always mastered the tools.
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And so the technical portion is not separated from the art itself. And I think with software, it's becoming more obvious and evident that we can do that with free software. We can interact with the people who are doing the tools,
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and we can also become more involved ourselves into making the tools work the way we want it to work. So basically, you can just go back and think
04:02
about how the painters just blended their colors to create the color that they wanted. Of course, now today, you can buy tubes of colors already mixed, but you can still do your own mix. And what free software offers you,
04:21
if you want to do your own mix, you can. If you want to just hit the button and click there and there, you can do that also. So we have more freedom, and this is what I think is good. And yesterday, when we were talking about that one, it reminded me of a discussion we had back in Lyon
04:42
with Dave Crossland about the code in the SVG inkscape. Well, we could see the code itself, and we could see the result of the code. And the discussion was about, was this code could be considered as art
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as well as the image it was produced? And it's still a question with no answer yet, so we don't know. But I thought then it's like a musical partition. You have the musical partition, it's written, but then there is no music until you play it.
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But when you play, you hear something, and this is art, but when you read the partition itself, you can decode it. Is this art too? Well, okay. So I think you get the idea, and I think this is pretty much what we want to do
05:42
when LGM comes together, bringing together around 35 projects together this year. I think it's outstanding how many projects are brought together. So I think it's a good sign of how the vitality
06:03
of the LGM and the energy that it brings together towards claiming or reclaiming the tools we use every day to work and create, whatever.
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So this is what LGM is all about, and I think that's why you people are here, and we will now begin with the first talks. Thank you.
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