<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Sounds awesome. I have one suggestion: use less whitespace on the billboard. I've driven by many billboards on the Bay Bridge approach and had a near impossible time reading the second line of print while all that whitespace sat around looking dainty.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lee</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Mitch Altman <<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com">maltman23@hotmail.com</a><br>
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> Hi Everyone,<br>
> ______<br>
> Anyone interested in helping get huge billboards up to promote<br>
> maker/hacker culture?<br>
> ____<br>
> I’ve been involved with talks with The Tech Museum, MAKE: Magazine,<br>
> TechShop, and Hacker Dojo about getting billboards up to promote<br>
> maker/hacker culture.<br>
> ____<br>
> The person behind making this happen is Matt Spergel, who has some<br>
> good experience in hacking the billboard system to get great<br>
> coverage for cool projects.Matt managed to get a huge billboard up<br>
> on I-680 to promote libraries and education for a few thousand<br>
> dollars (rather than tens of thousands).The result:<br>
> <a href="http://bookable.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/worlds-largest-public-library-advertisement/" target="_blank">http://bookable.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/worlds-largest-public-library-advertisement/</a><br>
> and he got lots of great press for it!<br>
> ____<br>
> Matt’s idea now is to have 3 huge billboards to promote maker/hacker<br>
> culture, with the logos for Noisebridge, Hacker Dojo, The Tech<br>
> Museum, MAKE, and TechShop:<br>
> ·1 street level billboard in San Jose (most likely downtown?)<br>
> ·1 street level billboard in San Francisco<br>
> ·and 1 kick ass billboard on the skyway in SF.<br>
> The one on the skyway usually retails for $30K a month, but Matt’s<br>
> contact/friend at CBS Outdoor can swing all of these for about<br>
> $7,500.A mockup is attached.<br>
><br>
> We are $1,000 short of this goal, and I agreed to try and raise this<br>
> on Noisebridge’s behalf.The other groups have already come up with<br>
> the following amounts of money for this project:<br>
> ·*Hacker Dojo*:$1,000<br>
> ·*MAKE*:$1,500<br>
> ·*TechShop*:$1,500<br>
> ·*The Tech Museum*:$2,500<br>
> ·*Noisebridge*:<br>
> ____<br>
> If a bunch of people each kick in a few dollars, we can easily come<br>
> up with the $1k to make this happen.I’m starting this off by<br>
> pledging $250.Anyone else in?<br>
> ____<br>
> You can add your pledge to the wiki I created for this:<br>
> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard</a><br>
> Or, just email me.<br>
> ____<br>
> The billboard campaign starts on 25-July, so we have 2 weeks to<br>
> reach our goal of $1k and make these 3 billboards a reality!<br>
> ____<br>
> *Objectives of the campaign<br>
> *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>
><br>
> Please email me with any questions.<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
> Mitch.<br>
> ____<br>
><br>
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