Poster
As most of you know, we have a good volume of awesome posters:
http://www.spacegeneration.org/downloads/poster/Nicola_Tateo_no1.jpg
Currently they are located in Brussels.
The problem we face is: WHERE and HOW do we distribute them?
I thought it would be good to organise a competition:
Collect the highest number of addresses where these posters
can be distributed in your country (but other countries are
also good to collect info for (as a bonus)) and become the
Point of Contact for your country.
That would solve the WHERE to distribute.
The HOW to distribute is more difficult when the option of
spending a lot of postage needs to be avoided. We have attempted
to bring the posters to a central spot where others would then
take them home, but so far the results have been not as encouraging
as we would have liked to see.
Any thoughts ?
Jim Volp
Hi Jim,
The Students Signatures in Space (S3) Program, jointly sponsored by NASA and Lockheed Martin Corporation, held annually for Space Day distributes its 550 posters worldwide using FedEx. So, how about getting an international courier company such as FedEx, UPS, DHL etc. to sponsor the SG poster distribution project? It'll be good for that company from a PR perspective as a project such as this can be marketed as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative - a commitment to their local communities.
Just a thought.
hey this seems to be interesting... actually in nearly all good engineering colleges in India we have annual techfests. These are places where students from different part of the country come over and participate over a span of few days in various competitions related to various branches of engineering. These places can act as buffer grounds for the posters to be send out...all the colleges anyways send out invitations to loads others and would hardly mind adding a poster or two to the big envelope. Those who come down to the respective colleges can further take more material back to their colleges and help in promoting the event among a larger mass of people around their city or region. This could in turn act as a chain of information exchanging hands...sounds kinda ok i hope !
Since the number of posters would be limited and we need to make the most impact with them, how about sending them by courier (sponsored) to the NPOCs to be distributed to Planetariums and Astronomy Clubs at Universities in their respective countries? For countries without NPOCs, the posters can be sent directly to the Planetariums.
Does someone have a pdf or a higher (larger) res picture of the posters. I'm thinking that's a great poster to have in a high school science lab. Have all members send a starter pack email to their old high schools and colleges saying feel free to print this out and use it where ever you would like.
ben
Asking the EC for that pdf now... will link later today. :-)
But keep in mind that, unless you have special accesses, large scale poster-printing is not really cheap...
Yohan has the great idea of getting a shipping sponsor that would cover distributing the big bulk pile we already have printed... does someone have any contacts on that front?
Please keep in mind that when you inquire about things like this, you are not official speaking for Space Generation, SGC, or SGAC, and you are not allowed to go into deals on behalf of the organization. It's a complex situation where the organization has a big history, and specific abilities and goals, and the Executive Council members really need to be the people who make deals and have agreements.
If you have specific contacts in potential sponsor groups, definitely ask them offline how we'd go about getting that sponsorship, and then transfer that info to Will, Alex, Chris, Agnieszka, Kevin, or Sarah, and let them make the official communication. There have been cases of making bad relationships being made because non-EC people spoke on behalf of the org without having full knowledge of pre-existing relationships, or the org itself...
How about contacting school science textbook publishers and distirbuters, maybe asking them to slip a poster in with the order or even print the image on the inside cover of the book? Or maybe actually producing some educational material to add in?
I just realized I never let you know that I picked up the posters in Brussels a few weeks ago. Next week I will bring them to our office in Vienna. If someone has any better idea if they all should be deposited there or be stored in more distributed places, please let me know. Also let me know if you know a place from which the shipping costs are quite low or if you have contacts to shipping companies that could sponsor us the shipping of the posters to NPoCs or conferences as this would help SGAC tremendously.
About digital copies: I think SGAC should have
those, or else I can look it up in my backup.
No problem.
Sending them by email is a good idea and can
relatively easily be achieved.
The work that needs to be done is collecting
the information and actually contacting each
individual contact in an organised manner.
It requires a small group of volunteers to work
together for a few weeks. Anybody interested?
Please respond to this posting.
About addresses: I personally have tonnes and
tonnes of addresses. Simply taken from the web:
http://www.eduspace.esa.int/ for example has
a large global database of schools that are
registered with them. See for yourself:
http://www.eduspace.esa.int/eduspace/registration/SchoolView.html
And there are many many places on the web where
one can find addresses. If you have a good
suggestion, please go ahead and reply to this
posting.
My question was more intended as a request for
HELP to collect this information. And SEDS has
set up an excellent project on their wiki where
(some of) this information can/should be stored:
http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/Regional_Information
OK, I hope that some people will find this a nice
sizable challenge that can create quite an impact.
Let's hear from you!
greetings,
Jim
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