Mitch -- I'll kick down some cash... but not to bike shed or anything... But I'm bike shedding :) Is there something we could add to the sign that would make clear to people that it's NOT an ad for corporate stuff like make magazine, but rather a general PSA ? I guess noisebridge is the only truly open organization on the ad...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Mitch Altman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com" target="_blank">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="3" face="Calibri">Hi Everyone,</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">Anyone interested in helping get huge billboards up to promote maker/hacker culture?</font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">I’ve been involved with talks with The Tech Museum, MAKE: Magazine, TechShop, and Hacker Dojo about getting billboards up to promote maker/hacker culture.</font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">The person behind making this happen is Matt Spergel, who has some good experience in hacking the billboard system to get great coverage for cool projects.<span> </span>Matt managed to get a huge billboard up on I-680 to promote libraries and education for a few thousand dollars (rather than tens of thousands).<span> </span>The result:</font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><a href="http://bookable.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/worlds-largest-public-library-advertisement/" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://bookable.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/worlds-largest-public-library-advertisement/</font></a></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">and he got lots of great press for it!</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p>
<font size="3" face="Calibri">Matt’s idea now is to have 3 huge billboards to promote maker/hacker culture, with the logos for Noisebridge, Hacker Dojo, The Tech Museum, MAKE, and TechShop:</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p>
<span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3">·</font><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">1 street level billboard in San Jose (most likely downtown?) </font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3">·</font><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">1 street level billboard in San Francisco </font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3">·</font><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">and 1 kick ass billboard on the skyway in SF. </font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">The one on the skyway usually retails for $30K a month, but Matt’s contact/friend at CBS Outdoor can swing all of these for about $7,500.<span> </span>A mockup is at:</font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Calibri"><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/File:InventBillboardMockup.png" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/File:InventBillboardMockup.png</a><br><br></font><font size="3" face="Calibri">We are $1,000 short of this goal, and I agreed to try and raise this on Noisebridge’s behalf.<span> </span>The other groups have already come up with the following amounts of money for this project:</font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3">·</font><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>Hacker Dojo</b>:<span> </span>$1,000</font></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3">·</font><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>MAKE</b>:<span> </span>$1,500</font></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3">·</font><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>TechShop</b>:<span> </span>$1,500</font></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3">·</font><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><b>The Tech Museum</b>:<span> </span>$2,500</font></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3">·</font><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>Noisebridge</b>:<span> </span></font></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">If a bunch of people each kick in a few dollars, we can easily come up with the $1k to make this happen.<span> </span>I’m starting this off by pledging $250.<span> </span>Anyone else in?<span> </span></font></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">You can add your pledge to the wiki I created for this:</font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard</font></a></p>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">Or, just email me.</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">The billboard campaign starts on 25-July, so we have 2 weeks to reach our goal of $1k and make these 3 billboards a reality!</font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>Objectives of the campaign<br></b>1) To grow maker/hacker culture.<br>
2) To create more visibility for our organizations.<br>3) To get more people involved who will add to maker/hacker culture<br>4) To promote more collaboration amongst the orgs in on this billboard<br><br></font></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">Please email me with any questions.<br><span> </span><br>Thanks!</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">Mitch.</font></p>
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