[Clipart] Prizes for "Clip art of the Week"

[Russell Ossendryver]

> Maybe what we should do rather than a weekly one, is to get a monthly
> one so we can get back to some type of monthly release.

I agree with the monthly one if we implemented this..



On 2/5/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 14:11 -0500, Russell Ossendryver wrote:
> > One way the OCAL can try and increase the amount of submission is
> > offering a prize for "the clipart of the week" Perhaps a T-shirt with
> > the art printed on it and a Openclipart logo
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Maybe what we should do rather than a weekly one, is to get a monthly
> one so we can get back to some type of monthly release. It is noticeable
> in our stats when we do monthly releases, and promoting some type of
> clipart of the month along with worldlabel.com would be cool to try
> out...then we could do monthly PR about this and updates via email,
> press outlets, and so on.
>
> Oh, btw, now that the site is fully live, we can run contests now ;) We
> could run the clipart of the month as a contest where the community can
> vote, so its automated. We could name them YEARMONTH (like 200702, for
> consistency). So, http://openclipart.org/200702. Or, maybe better to
> have contest in the URL: http://openclipart.org/200702contest
>
> I think though it would be good to give it a solid run like 3 months of
> monthly contests so we don't burn out like our first 18 months of
> releases :) Then, we can re-evaluate how it is working in 3 months.
>
> Also, in those monthly releases we could start to focus our development
> more with simple solid tasks to undertake and start rebuilding our
> development population.
>
> What do you all think?
>
> Jon
>
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