Oh, I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment or scope at all. It's just the issue of referring to it as a contest. I think that even the structure can remain the same, just that the word "contest" may alienate users who view themselves as being in a professional bracket. The idea of a contest can sometimes feel uncomfortably like spec work.
I'm all for the idea of soliciting submissions, using a jury to choose a small group from the submissions, printing those selected images and showing them off. I think it's a brilliant plan. Just that we may not want to refer to it as a contest. -ginger On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Louis Desjardins < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ginger, > > Don't underestimate the contest thing. Also, it's an all-over-the-world > contest. > > I don't mind if we choose to go another way. I am only suggesting this. > > I want to imagine image freaks and type freaks trying to get the most out > of Blender-Krita-Inskcape-Hugin and from the other door some trying to > figure out the most out of Scribus, Inkscape or else... Vectors... Images... > Pixels... > > I only offer to print at large size ! > > Louis > > 2011/2/11 ginger coons <[email protected]> > > >> >>> 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. >> >> -- >> ginger "all-lower-case" coons >> adaptstudio.ca >> 647.865.7757 (Toronto) >> 514.213.1318 (Montreal) >> > > > -- ginger "all-lower-case" coons adaptstudio.ca 647.865.7757 (Toronto) 514.213.1318 (Montreal)
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