Hello all,
I'm wondering what the procedure would be to get funding from our project savings for publicity materials we can all use for conferences, etc.
I am hopeful to print up:
1.) brochure 2.) business cards 3.) stickers
I would ideally like to get this done before Siggraph (www.siggraph.org) in early August. Myself and Andy Fitzsimon are both going to be at the first ever Open Souce Pavilion which is a large shared space for Open Source creative applications on the main show floor which will feature Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, Creative Commons and others. Also, I can get you all into the exhibition for free if anyone is interested (I am writing another email about this).
What is the best procedure to go about seeking funds/reimbursements, and for making sure everyone can get access to these printed materials. I have some students from San Francisco Art Institute that will help me create them, which is cool.
I'm thinking this for a procedure:
1.) make a wiki page proposing the publicity materials
2.) set a window of approximately 3 days for people to comment and get feedback on the proposal
3.) Get the materials printed if ok and do any other requests
4.) Provide a clear path for others to get materials for conference and distribution
Does this sound like a good solution for this? Also, hopefully you all see the benefits in getting some things printed up like what I proposed.
Jon
For some starter materials you're welcome to use anything in the Inkscape marketing repository (I'm promoting it here as I KNOW other people have stuff to put in there)
https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape_marketing/trunk/
Tonight, I added my talk at Google and the business card design that I used to there.
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:55 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
What is the best procedure to go about seeking funds/reimbursements, and for making sure everyone can get access to these printed materials. I have some students from San Francisco Art Institute that will help me create them, which is cool.
I think we should probably wait until we've agreed on a process as part of getting all the non-profit stuff set up. I think doing something before that time confuses things. I realize it won't be on the timescale that you're thinking, but I think it is more reasonable long term.
I'm thinking this for a procedure:
1.) make a wiki page proposing the publicity materials
2.) set a window of approximately 3 days for people to comment and get feedback on the proposal
3.) Get the materials printed if ok and do any other requests
4.) Provide a clear path for others to get materials for conference and distribution
Does this sound like a good solution for this? Also, hopefully you all see the benefits in getting some things printed up like what I proposed.
Well, I think that one major thing that you're missing here is cost and type of printing. While you might feel that color glossy fliers is the way to go, I think that photocopied fliers were just as effective at SCALE. We gave people something to walk away with, that had the website on it, and they noticed it just as much. I realize that every other business will have glossy fliers, but I think that most people realize that Inkscape has different funding than Adobe.
I will also say that I don't believe that "personalized" things should be funded through the Inkscape funds. Things like business cards or T-shirts would fall under this category to me.
--Ted
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