[Sig2006] More individual promo?

[Dave Neary]

Hi Ton,

It might be a good time to figure out what the overall vision for the
collaboration is.

Here's how I saw the stand working:

 - Pay for a great stand, with input from partners on most of the design
decisions
 - Since you're spending the most money and time on the stand, I was
expecting Blender (and Elephants Dream) to have the majority of the
branding on the stand
 - I was hoping that a clear list of what was expected of the GNOME
Foundation in terms of artwork and publicity would be available earlier.
I've been working on getting volunteers, who will be able to talk about
the programmes and give some 15" demos, but I haven't particularly been
worried about artwork or handouts - the stand should be great.
 - For artwork, I guess I need to know the goal of the artwork - is it
to label space as GNOME space, Blender space, etc (what I understood),
or is it to inform about the project? I bet that a handout would be more
useful for informing people, and that the banners should really only be
about attracting the eye.

So there you have it - I've essentially been working on the basis of
finding 4 to 5 GNOME volunteers, and 1 or 2 GIMP volunteers for the
stand, and let the stand be our communications vehicle. If we need to
have some printing done for flyers or posters, I probably need to know
now. I was planning on leaving the banner as just some branded space
rather than an informational leaflet.

Cheers,
Dave.

Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The comments about the banners appear to me as if GNOME/Uni-Verse like
> to see more prominent logo promotion in the booth?
> 
> What you cannot see yet, but the giant Elephants Dream banner behind the
> permanent demo tables, will have the logos of the three partners printed
> large and very visible, and right behind the demo stations. (And no
> other logos than Blender, Uni-verse and GNOME).
> 
> In general it works best to not emphasize logos/text too much, but to
> create an interesting look for the booth. The theme "Open Source
> Pavillion" is what people should talk about, and come back for.
> 
> -Ton-
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