On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:10 -0600, Neville A. Cross wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Justin O'Brien <three@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello all: > > > > I had an idea Brainstorming in #f-mktg. We were trying to come up with > > ways to extend our reach. Getting Free Software/Linux people is awesome > > but who else might be interested in Fedora? so I thought why don't we > > put on a Fedora Project artshow?!? > > > > > > Here is what I was invisioning... > > > > * we somehow procure a gallery > > * Fedorians bring in some art they had done > > * we invite people from the art world to see it > > * try to get written up in art mags (do they exist, if so which ones) > > * thought this would be an awesome way to show that art and > > freesoftware are great partners > > * thought this would be a way that people could parade out that one > > desgin they had for $fedoraVersionInThePast that just didnt make it > > * would be a way to see the creative side of people we didnt know had > > one (how many coders/marketing people/legal etc are also painters, > > sculpters, etc) > > > > If anyone likes this idea let me know and maybe we can make this > > happen :) > > > > > > > At Nicaragua, Free Software has team up with Free Culture as we have a > lot of commons interests. As Free Software community we have organized > Free Music concerts. > > To me your idea makes sense. What I see as something to work out is a > geographical location to gather all fedora art. What about a virtual > gallery as a starting point? > > -- > Neville > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v > Linux User # 473217 > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Check: http://www.clickmanagua.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I didn't think about the Geo issue... My brain is US specific :/ Maybe each interested Region could do one... The virtual gallery is a cool idea but I think it wouldn't attract the groups that we were wanting to attract... any thoughts? also I'll have to resend this to the design list becuase I wasn't subed and got denied :) -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
