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Thanks for the suggestion. We can consider it for next time we do a billboard, if this one is at all successful at attracting out goals. This billboard is actually in the pipeline now, and we're almost to our goal of reaching the funding for it. Anyone else want to pitch in a few dolars? -- we are only short $430 now to make this epic billboard a reality!<BR><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Billboard</a><br><BR> <BR>Mitch.<BR><br> <BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:16:35 -0700<br>From: lee@lee.org<br>To: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] (no subject)<br><br><div class="ecxgmail_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 style="padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="ecxgmail_quote"><div class="ecxim">
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Mitch Altman <<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com">maltman23@hotmail.com</a><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> 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>
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