> > Yesterday when we talked I put the idea of having a design contest for LGM. > We'd open it soon, close it about 2-3 weeks before LGM starts, pick the best > 15 projects (we would ask people to use any open source tool and produce a > printable poster of 24“ X 36“ that I would print at my office). The pick for > those 15 would be made by the people voting and then for the last call, to > determine the winner out of the 15 semi-finalists we could have a jury (?) > made of (?) professionals, teachers (tbd) and then we have a winner and > possibly a prize (?) — a Linux box filled with the software ? Thinking out > loud... Those posters would be all over the place in Galerie Rolland at > Polytechnique so we'd own the place graphically ! :) > > On that, Femke and I batted the idea around a little more after you went offline. In my experience, designers tend to shy away from things framed as contests. However, it might be very appropriate to call it a juried exhibition, with an accompanying online exhibition (containing all submissions). That way, we could have 15 selected by our jury (some suggestions for jury members are, I believe, in the wiki) but still provide exposure and attention to others. We also thought that it might be nice to choose another 15 to print in a later issue of Libre Graphics magazine.
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