Hi!
I am Adrian, I am from Germany and volunteering in the youth chess organisation of my home state Lower Saxony (around 6,000 organised chess players). Since a couple of years our number of people who are active in chess clubs is declining and there is no turn around expected if we don’t act. Therefore I developed an idea to promote chess and make this fantastic game more visible to the public. I need your help to do that. So what is that all about?
- We want to advertise chess on these large billboards (9 square meter) in various German cities.
We need a great motif and that is where I will need your support.
2. How many billboards will be used?
That depends on how much money we will collect. I hope that we will cover at least 3 cities with 1 billboard for 10 days.
3. What is the content of these billboards?
We want to advertise chess. Full stop. There will be a German text and a reference to the next chess club. Like I said I would ask for your support to create a great motif that we can use for these posters. So feel free to be creative. Our intention is to show that chess is a modern game which is played by millions worldwide. So we need a modern/cool motif that improves the image of chess.
I already have two ideas for such a motif, but anything is possible:
a) The king as chess piece in the centre, dark background, spotlights on him. Working title “Chess in the spotlight”
b) Chess is rather known as game which is played by a small minority, mostly seniors. But there are millions of us chess players, so another idea is to create a set of chess pieces and form them to a huge army. Like in Lord of the Rings, hundreds of chess pieces in a formation. A nice text like “There are x million chess players in the world. Become one of them.”
These are just first ideas, maybe you have better ones.
4. How you can help
Basically we need somebody to create the whole motif and make it look as “cool” as possible. The better it looks the more money we can raise from people in Germany who want to support our campaign. And this means more cities where we will advertise.
5. What you get
We are a voluntary organisation and I spend a lot of hours to organise tournaments for youth players. I do not get any money for it and I cannot give it to you. But: You support a good cause (bringing kids and adults to a great game), we will mention you and your contribution on our campaign homepage and your motif will be on a big billboard in German cities. Furhermore we would probably use it to create smaller posters.
6. Last words
I know it is a lot to ask and a lot of work. But as a Linux user I know how helpful so many people in these communities are. So I have a little hope that one of you accepts the challenge. Feel free to ask me if you have further questions.
Thank you for reading!
Adrian