[Tango-artists] Intern position filled

[Matt Chaput]

Just wanted to let the list know we (Side Effects Software Inc.)  
found someone for the internship from one of the local design  
schools... presumably someone who still lives with their parents ;)

As an aside, I thought I'd share an idea I had...

My original bizarre idea, after I realized I'd never have the time to  
do the icons myself, but before we managed to get the money  
authorized for an intern, was that I would make an offer to the  
entire icon designing community to pay $10 cash money for each icon  
off a list (out of my own pocket -- that's how desperate I was).  
Anybody could choose to do any icon and if it was good enough, I'd  
send them $10 (CDN, but it's almost like real money) and it would be  
released under the same CCL as Tango.

It's probably crazy, and it would probably drive a corporate  
accountant mad. But I wonder if it could work. There are enough  
people out there doing icons and giving them away. Not all of them of  
equal talent, but... I wonder if the talented ones would say to  
themselves "Self, I was going to do an icon of a duck for nothing,  
but if I do an icon of a film camera I get $10 (or $8, or 5  
pounds...) and I can at least supersize my fries tonight!"

It's sort of a micro-multi-Summer-Of-Icons.

Oh well, the great experiment will have to wait...

Matt