[Uni-verse] Siggraph 2006

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I still don't have the final budget, need more information from US  
booth constructing still. I'm also still waiting for confirmation from  
potential partners.

To recap;

Potential partners: Blender, Uni-Verse, Gnome (Gimp), Inkscape?
Sponsors: Linux Fund, Redhat, HP

Target: organize the Open Source Pavillion, showing CG tools for  
artists/developers/business people.

Booth: 20x30 feet island, can be a high construction showing partner  
names, has at least 4 permanent 'demo pods' for the partners to  
showcase products. There will be a couple of large screens to show  
videos/presentations in a loop.
Centrally a large projection screen available for tutorial/demos for  
audience.

Partners get mentioned large in display, screening time on the  
displays, at least one 'pod' and equally shared time on the big screen  
for demos.

For uni-verse the target is quite obvious; we have to get in touch with  
(business) developers of CG software corporations to show them the  
concept and benefits of verse and the entire platform.
Success will be difficult to measure... most important is first to get  
in the picture, so an efficient follow up can be done later too.

The budget estimated total is 30,000 euro max. Each partner should  
cover 1/6 of that. Blender Foundation will produce it all, without  
including people's fee... I only mean expenses here.

Alternative is a smaller booth, 10x20, in an aisle. Will get fewer  
visitors, and certainly not look that professional. I might do this by  
teaming up with Gimp only. However, I don't mind then showing  
Blender-Verse-Gimp, of course... so Eskil/Gert or whomever visits  
Siggraph can use the booth occasionally for demos to interested  
(business) people.

May 15th is deadline for the large booth.

-Ton-

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