Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Yes, this deserves an explanation.
> The plan was initially to have the poster printed and sold directly like the
> keyrings and the IRTC CDs. The poster would have been printed in advance in
> sufficient numbers to get a good price. However, after a few weeks of having
> the order page online and failing to generate even the tiniest sparkle of
> interest outside the POV-Ray/IRTC community and, more important, actual
> orders, there were too many doubts about being able to cover the printing
> costs, let alone turn up a profit for the server maintenance, so the
> printing had to be cancelled.

That's sad to hear.

I can't say much about the reason for the lack of orders for the poster
(apart from maybe the possibility to order was not displayed prominently
enough) but i think the whole thing should have been (or still be)
advertised more intensely.  You or the POV-Team should send notes to major
news-sites on the web as well as newspapers and Magazines with related
coverage.  People there of course also do their own research but it is not
exactly easy to find and to identify as an interesting news item.  The
problem is of course also that this is not actually a very new information
since the picture was generated more than a year ago but a lot of
newspapers and magazines i read from time to time have sections where this
would fit well.  And once coverage has started somewhere it is much more
likely to spread...

Christoph

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