This is just a pre-announce... The short story:
We need somebody to do the coordination for the modperl banners project, similar to what Jonathan has done with the new logo creation/selection project. The long story: We need to create a few banners, so we can use these as ads on friendly sites. I've already one tech site that wants to advertise us for free. I know that ads don't really work, but the targetted advertising is in a better shape. I think the current market standard is 468x60 and 150x40 (pixels) and size about 10k. It's been a long time since I was doing these myself, so I'm not sure what's the acceptable image format. Definitely not PNG (Since some older browsers crash on PNGs). but these can be converted to other more back-compat formats. Anyway, the coordinator should figure out all these details before posting the announcement, so to prevent confusing and time wasting. The coordinator will accept submissions from individuals and put them somewhere online (better pre-announce the url, so people can see the work in progress). I don't know yet if we will need to do the voting, but it's an option. All depends on how many banners will get submitted. The coordinator should post the announcement with details about what and how to do, where to submit the banners and then after a decided timeframe post the results back to the list. Of course we will accept new banners in the future, but for the initial batch it'd be nice to have some timeframe, since we already have a need. Eventually all the chosen banners will appear on the new mod_perl site. Since we are very close to the transition period, we need a temp location off-site for collecting the banners. Ideas for banners: * world domination chapter 1 (only 20% achieved) * world domination chapter 2 (50% target) * include the 2.0 theme * ... * definitely re-use the new logo http://wypug.digital-word.com/mod_perl/winner/ * ... Also I don't know if the banners can be animated or not. Someone who's in touch with the ads bussiness these days, please help the coordinator to fine tune the specs. p.s. I hope that I didn't make this simple thing sound too complicated :) p.p.s. could also in parallel run a T-shirt logo contest, we have a new conference coming up in July. It's definitely a time to start thinking about mod_perl freebies! p.p.p.s. You help is very appreciated! __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
