[CREATE] LGM2011 Launch Timings + pledgie drive

[ginger coons]

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.

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.

-ginger

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Louis Desjardins <
louis.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ginger,
>
> Don't underestimate the contest thing. Also, it's an all-over-the-world
> contest.
>
> I don't mind if we choose to go another way. I am only suggesting this.
>
> 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...
>
> I only offer to print at large size !
>
> Louis
>
> 2011/2/11 ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>
>
>
>>
>>> 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 ! :)
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> ginger "all-lower-case" coons
>> adaptstudio.ca
>> 647.865.7757 (Toronto)
>> 514.213.1318 (Montreal)
>>
>
>
>


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ginger "all-lower-case" coons
adaptstudio.ca
647.865.7757 (Toronto)
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