Oh, I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment or scope at all. It's just the issue of referring to it as a contest. I think that even the structure can remain the same, just that the word "contest" may alienate users who view themselves as being in a professional bracket. The idea of a contest can sometimes feel uncomfortably like spec work. <br>
<br>I'm all for the idea of soliciting submissions, using a jury to choose a small group from the submissions, printing those selected images and showing them off. I think it's a brilliant plan. Just that we may not want to refer to it as a contest.<br>
<br>-ginger<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Louis Desjardins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:louis.desjardins@gmail.com">louis.desjardins@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Ginger,<br><br>Don't underestimate the contest thing. Also, it's an all-over-the-world contest.<br><br>I don't mind if we choose to go another way. I am only suggesting this.<br><br>I want to imagine image freaks and type freaks trying to get the most out of Blender-Krita-Inskcape-Hugin and from the other door some trying to figure out the most out of Scribus, Inkscape or else... Vectors... Images... Pixels...<br>
<br>I only offer to print at large size !<br><br>Louis<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/11 ginger coons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ginger@adaptstudio.ca" target="_blank">ginger@adaptstudio.ca</a>></span><div>
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<br>Yesterday when we talked I put the idea of having a design contest for LGM. We'd open it soon, close it about 2-3 weeks before LGM starts, pick the best 15 projects (we would ask people to use any open source tool and produce a printable poster of 24“ X 36“ that I would print at my office). The pick for those 15 would be made by the people voting and then for the last call, to determine the winner out of the 15 semi-finalists we could have a jury (?) made of (?) professionals, teachers (tbd) and then we have a winner and possibly a prize (?) — a Linux box filled with the software ? Thinking out loud... Those posters would be all over the place in Galerie Rolland at Polytechnique so we'd own the place graphically ! :)<br>
<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>On that, Femke and I batted the idea around a little more after you went offline. In my experience, designers tend to shy away from things framed as contests. However, it might be very appropriate to call it a juried exhibition, with an accompanying online exhibition (containing all submissions). That way, we could have 15 selected by our jury (some suggestions for jury members are, I believe, in the wiki) but still provide exposure and attention to others. We also thought that it might be nice to choose another 15 to print in a later issue of Libre Graphics magazine. <br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>ginger "all-lower-case" coons<br><a href="http://adaptstudio.ca" target="_blank">adaptstudio.ca</a><br>647.865.7757 (Toronto)<br>514.213.1318 (Montreal)<br>
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