On 9/12/05, Claus Schwarm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know about other parts of the world but in Germany it is quite > common to sent christmas cards to customers, friends, relatives, etc. > > The first company I worked for used christmas cards produced by a > charity foundation, for example. Since Open Source is a sort of charity, > too, the idea is basically to make our 'own' cards. > > I've attached a very basic (speak: ugly) draft. I'm not used to > Inkscape. > > However, we're used to artwork competitions. Getting better artwork > shouldn't be a complicated problem. > > The winning card layout(s) could be used by companies supporting us, > GNOME enthusiasts, etc. It's a rather easy way to present the idea of > switching to normal people. > > Problem Number 1 is the money (as usual). Don't know if we could get > financial support from Canonical, Novell, Redhat, etc. > > Problem Number 2 is we need someone to organize this.
Interesting idea*. Maybe this is something the gimp or inkscape people would want to drive, as the 'graphics people'? Certainly they have the artistic firepower to bring to bear :) Luis *And tangentially, we should consider sending something like this to the FOG with a year-in-review kind of thing, which is traditional here in the states- the head of the family sends out a summary of what the family has done over the year ('little stephen graduated from kindergarten, henrieta learned to drive', etc.) to all the friends of the family. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list