Wikimedia community consists of many professionals of very different
trades. I am pretty sure we have professional graphic designers within
the community who would willingly do the work done for free. Just a
small effort should be done reaching them. --Base
On 04.12.2015 2:21, geni wrote:
On 3 December 2015 at 23:29, Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> wrote:
hold it, back up the truck for a moment
If the WMF has a fundraising team and a PR/media team why is it paying a
third party to provide the banners surely someone should be able to design
them in house, what about someone from the design teams working on other
projects. If no one has the skills to layout a banner why not ask the
community for some options there are many skilled volunteers that would
gladly do it for free, the WMF could even offer a scholarship to Wikimania
as an incentive to get it done within a short time frame.
Graphic design is really one of those things better left to professionals.
Equally for a handful of banners going externally rather than employing
someone full time makes sense. Admittedly the WMF hasn't had the best of
luck with its external contractors (wikipedia forever, this) but in
principle it is a valid approach.
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