[CREATE] LGM2011 Launch Timings + pledgie drive

[Louis Desjardins]

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>

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>
>> 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
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