[CREATE] Re: [Foundations] Siggraph tradeshow

[Dave Neary]

Hi Ton,

I'm forwarding this on to the Create mailing list - since it's in
Boston, there may be interest from GNOME, perhaps Inkscape, Scribus and
the GIMP would like to contribute too?

Cheers,
Dave.

Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> I know there's not many foundations here with direct interest in the CG
> business, but nevertheless. :)
> 
> Already since Blender became opened up 4 years ago, I try to get
> Siggraph (the main conference for computer graphics) to do more for open
> source projects. This typically with mixed results, in general we're
> banned to the periphery areas away from the center hotspots.
> 
> Since last year Siggraph offers the opportunity for non-profits and
> universities to rent floorspace on the tradeshow, for about 25% of the
> normal price. I'm seriously considering this, also because we can
> partner up with a EU consortium for it.
> 
> Floorspace per 10x10 feet unit is 1500 USD, additional costs for
> furniture rental etc is unknown, something between 1000-2000 USD max.
> Things would go much smoother though if I could combine it with more
> organizations. I'm thinking of a nice 20x30 island booth, which could
> host up to six projects then. The Blender Foundation can do all
> organization/producing work for this, and finance it up to 50% max.
> 
> Question; are there organizations on this list interested to
> participate? Or; is there an organization with a budget available to
> sponsor us? Visual presence of FOSS projects on the tradeshow in
> Siggraph would really be a cool happening. :)
> Needless to say, with our Open Movie (creative commons) "Elephants
> Dream" we already got a great eyecatcher!
> 
> http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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