[Web Comm] FOSS4G banner

[Fred warnock]

Frank,

I think that looks great.  I wouldn't worry about the page widening 
since this is only going to be there for a month and a bit, and it 
almost fits 1024x768.

fred

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> Tina Mena from Autodesk was talking to Arnulf and I re: their FOSS4G 
>> sponsorship.  She had been asked by a FOSS4G organiser if they 
>> (Autodesk) could put up a banner/advert for the conference on their 
>> website.  It's not possible from Autodesk's end, but the question came 
>> up to whether or not osgeo.org could have an advert for it on the 
>> front page.  I think it is a good idea and makes sense to be promoting 
>> it as much as possible.  Perhaps we could bump down the developer 
>> spotlight and throw the FOSS4G banner up?
>>
>> What do you think?  Who can do it?  I've attached the banner - the 
>> href src would point to http://foss4g2006.org.
> 
> Tyler,
> 
> I think it is completely sensible to be promoting FOSS4G as much as we can.
> Should this banner go in the center pane?  It seems like it might be a bit
> wide in the center area.  I tried it briefly, and the result looks like 
> this
> to me:
> 
>   http://www.gdal.org/tmp/with_banner.gif
> 
> Note that site announcements and so forth are getting push aside despite
> a fairly wide window?
> 
> Best regards,