Hi Ton, I'm forwarding this on to the Create mailing list - since it's in Boston, there may be interest from GNOME, perhaps Inkscape, Scribus and the GIMP would like to contribute too?
Cheers, Dave. Ton Roosendaal wrote: > I know there's not many foundations here with direct interest in the CG > business, but nevertheless. :) > > Already since Blender became opened up 4 years ago, I try to get > Siggraph (the main conference for computer graphics) to do more for open > source projects. This typically with mixed results, in general we're > banned to the periphery areas away from the center hotspots. > > Since last year Siggraph offers the opportunity for non-profits and > universities to rent floorspace on the tradeshow, for about 25% of the > normal price. I'm seriously considering this, also because we can > partner up with a EU consortium for it. > > Floorspace per 10x10 feet unit is 1500 USD, additional costs for > furniture rental etc is unknown, something between 1000-2000 USD max. > Things would go much smoother though if I could combine it with more > organizations. I'm thinking of a nice 20x30 island booth, which could > host up to six projects then. The Blender Foundation can do all > organization/producing work for this, and finance it up to 50% max. > > Question; are there organizations on this list interested to > participate? Or; is there an organization with a budget available to > sponsor us? Visual presence of FOSS projects on the tradeshow in > Siggraph would really be a cool happening. :) > Needless to say, with our Open Movie (creative commons) "Elephants > Dream" we already got a great eyecatcher! > > http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/ > > -Ton- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blender.org > > _______________________________________________ > foundations mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/foundations > > -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
