As reported last week, we have been offered one full-page ad in the Free Software Magazine. We asked the Drupal community to design ads from which we would select one for publication. The feedback we got was amazing, resulting in a dozen ads being proposed and discussed. Unfortunately, we can only select one ad for publication and the May 30th deadline is approaching rapidely. Based on the feedback, I selected one of the beautiful and clever ads designed by Josh Stevens. Josh's winning ad is shown on the right; you can click the thumbnail to see the full-version. Unfortunately, we aren't quite there yet. Hence, the goal of this thread is to finalize the ad; that is, to get the message and the brand right. In other words, it is time for the final polish so please share your thoughts or improvements in the comments ... and hopefully, with the help of the various Drupal designers (and Josh in particular), we can craft the final version of what will be the very first Drupal ad.

Update #1: Chris Messina submitted an interesting variant on Josh's version. See this composite image for ease of comparison. What do you think? More variants with incremental improvements are welcome but most of all, we are looking for concrete suggestions as how to improve the text at the bottom of the ad.

Update #2: just got mail from the Malaysian Open Source Software Magazine: they offered to publish our ad in their magazine as well. Thanks!

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