IEC Open Source Mela

Advertising the Mela

Thursday Mar 26, 2009

Picasso quotes "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

First of all, I never thought I could design posters! Thanks for giving me this exciting opportunity.

What motivated me?
The hard work and the passion of the IEC Open Source Initiative team in itself was a big motivation to work on these posters. To add to it, my neighbor, Sreejith, would peep into the posters while I'm working on them and provide his valuable inputs by scratching his creative brain. And when you have an immensely talented media designer, Prakash to help, any task becomes do-able.

How Open Source inspires art?
Well, apart from a few, most of the posters were created using Open source tools. I'd also like to add that an artist resides in all/most of us and we can't go looking for sophisticated and expensive tools to satisfy the "creative" urge. So, Open Source it is! And there is not much difference between the posters created with open source and licensed tools, right?

Why do we have this Mela?
The concept behind the IEC Open Source Mela is to generate awareness about open source technologies among IEC folks and to help them contribute to/incorporate them. The demos during the Mela are instrumental in sharing/acquiring knowledge of Sun's various open source products. Talks from the Gurus gave an insight into open source from a completely different perspective. The panel discussion helped us assert that the concept of open source is indeed beneficial! And while we were enhancing our Open Source Quotient (OQ), we got to munch on some sumptuous snacks.

So, we made our presence felt by participating in the numerous contests, setting up booths, demonstrating your product, by blogging, or by listening to the talks and presentations. And let's not limit it to the mela; let's spread the word across....

Though I think the agenda was good enough, I hope the posters were equally compelling and pulled in large crowds!