[CREATE] Re: [Foundations] Siggraph tradeshow

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 16:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> 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, is there still any room for groups to plug into this? It would be
great first of all to plug the Create project into this effort, but also
I think Creative Commons might be interested in participating in this
too.

Anyway, I look forward to hearing from you...

Jon

> 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-
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation ton at blender.org http://www.blender.org
> > 
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> > 
> 
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