Hi Inkscape folks!

Fedora is going to be promoting Inkscape at the South by Southwest expo in Austin, Texas next week. We've got a booth and we're running a contest where each of the four days we're featuring a specific free & open source application, and one of the days we are highlighting Inkscape.

You can see the Inkscape logo stamps we made and the postcards where folks will be getting their cards stamped to enter a contest here:

http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/christmas-in-march/

http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/preparing-for-fedoras-sxsw-debut/

We also highlighted Lorain Baird's Inkscape-created winning poster design entry into the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation contest on one of the flyers we'll be distributing:

http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/flyers-about-free-open-source-softwar...

(second flyer, upper left)

We also have beautiful tri-fold brochures, one for graphic designers, which also highlights Inkscape:

http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/designteam/?p=28

We're going to be talking up Inkscape and really trying to build up awareness of it and to encourage the very creative and tech savvy folks at SXSW to give it a try and even contribute back to it. If any Inkscape users or developers are going to be at SXSW, we'd like to invite you to drop by our booth and say hi (you can even get your photo taken with Tux at our booth! :) ) It's booth #344 in the expo hall.

In Fedora we absolutely love (I'd go so far as to say worship!) Inkscape and we're hoping our enthusiasm shows through at the show in getting folks to give it a try :)

Cheers!

~m

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Máirín Duffy Fedora Design Team Leader