Great idea. LoudSauce is a crowdsourcing platform for buying public ad space for social messaging on a variety of platforms. This would be a great collaboration and I know their founder Colin if anyone is interested in connecting with them. It's like kickstarter for taking over billboards and TV time.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://loudsauce.com/">http://loudsauce.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Jake<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Olya K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:krasnykh@gmail.com">krasnykh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Can someone maybe make a project on <a href="http://kickstarter.com" target="_blank">kickstarter.com</a>? I've never done it and don't have much time to explore. But once (or if, i guess) that's up, I can promote/fundraise through social networks/e-mail threads.<div>
<br></div><div>I'd also be willing to help on the actual physical project once the money is secured.</div><div><br></div><div>Olya<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:25 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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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Hi Everyone,</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u></u><u></u><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><u></u></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u></u><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><u></u></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u></u><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><u></u></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://bookable.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/worlds-largest-public-library-advertisement/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://bookable.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/worlds-largest-public-library-advertisement/</font></a></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u></u><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><u></u></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><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">
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</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">1 street level billboard in San Francisco </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 attached.<br>
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</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">
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</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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><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">
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</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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u></u><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><u></u></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u></u><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><u></u></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard</font></a></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Or, just email me.</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u></u><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><u></u></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><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 style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u></u><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font><u></u></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><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>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Please email me with any questions.<br>
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Thanks!</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri">Mitch.</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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