On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 16:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > 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, is there still any room for groups to plug into this? It would be great first of all to plug the Create project into this effort, but also I think Creative Commons might be interested in participating in this too. Anyway, I look forward to hearing from you... Jon > 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 > > > > > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
