FMX/09 : Stuttgart, Germany, May 5th-9th

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FMX/09 : Stuttgart, Germany, May 5th-9th

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I've just agreed to speak at FMX/09 this year, giving an overview of Ogre and showcasing a few things from the community.

1) Anyone else going? You probably won't learn a lot since this is very much aimed at people who haven't used Ogre yet, but nevertheless a few friendly faces are welcome ;)

2) I have a few ideas of community projects I'd like to talk about, but if you have something cool that you'd like me to include in the talk, let me know.
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Hi sinbad,

that's great!!!

Since I live in Stuttgart, I would like come to your speech, but I just checked the ticket prices, and wow!! 100+ Euro (or even 50 Euro for students) for a 1-hour speech? Ouch!!!

Anyone else from Stuttgart around here?
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I've been thinking about going this year, too. But the ticket is indeed a bit expensive for a poor student.
Maybe we can find 10 people and get a group ticket, zissakos? I need two tickets.

Anyway. Great to see you spreading the work, sindbad :)
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I would love to go there. But 100€ is to waaaay to heavy.
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Well, I don't have any control over the conference ticket prices, but bear in mind that is for a whole day, not just my 1 hour slot! Compared to Siggraph or most other conferences, 50/100 Euro is quite cheap.

But in any case, I'll be in the city for a few days, so if the conference is a bit much for you I'm happy to meet up with Ogre users in the periphery to generally say hi over lunch / beer.
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Hi Sinbad,
looking forward to meeting you in Stuttgart!
I'm presenting aQtree (non-photorealistic rendering) on Friday... Stefan's built it on a framework application using ogre.

Are you guys in Stuttgart? University or freelancing? any cooperations with Uni Stuttgart? Are you developing apps? Perhaps you are cooperation candidates for the research & development group at the Filmakademie? (Give me some aspects to cook up into something ticket-worthy...)
I'll ask around here as well and see what's possible.

edit: beer! Count me in!
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Occurred to me that it would be helpful to plug my talk!
http://fmx.de/E.2234.html

Friday line-up is very interesting for anyone interested in ogre.

Artistic Efficiency via Technical Innovation: A Research Report
At 12:00 Thomas, Stefan and I show aQtree. Stefan will go into an open source framework application (frapper) that the institut is developing. Its quite powerful and may be useful for ogre community

Agent Framework: Character-Centric Application Prototyping & Facial Animation Toolset 2.0
14:00 Volker, Nils and Simon show some fairly unique approaches to facial controls - realtime agents using the ogre engine, again via our framework app.

And because I couldn't even blame you should you opt for Viktor Antonov's talk instead, drop by our booth in the expo section to hook up.
Here's the full Friday line-up: http://fmx.de/E.214.html
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Just wanted to drop in here and say:
Meeting Steve at FMX was fantastic! The whole team is freshly inspired and looking forward to sharing what we've been working on in the next months.
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Thanks David! It was great meeting you & the rest of the team at Filmakademie, and seeing all the great stuff you're working on. I can't wait to see the reaction from the community when you reveal what you've been working on to a wider audience!
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