Christoph Hormann wrote:

> I understand that problem, a good idea would be working stronger on
> advertisement - offering banners to be placed on personal websites, doing
> translations of the announcement pages to different languages (i could help with
> a german version), asking related websites apart from povray.org to make
> announcements...

Will consider.

> Maybe also a more eye-catching layout for the page - i like it as it is, but not
> everyone does ...

Yikes! People are complaining are they? I thought about a background image contest,
but

The worst thing on a web page is to have custom made gifs that don't work anything
because the purpose and scope of the page has changed and the owner hasn't had time to
make new button images.....

> I think that's a problematic point, because many people especially hesitate to
> take part in a project that has no definite future (i know that's quite a
> dilemma, because the future is mainly influenced by the people taking part :) so
> i would not suggest opening submissions without a defined deadline.

Well, if I'm able to open on December 15th with and advertised 2 week deadline, I for
sure will close the gates if I get a huge handful by December 31st.


> Christoph
>
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> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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