it’s a small lotus world

As you may have seen over the last week, there are several of us in the Lotus community who are gathering together to organise a fund raising event at Lotusphere 2011.

The inspiration came from Mark Myers and Ben Poole, who, in a rare moment of non bickering, specified and arranged the creation of the “It’s a small Lotus world” pixel art. Bruce then came up with the idea of raffling a very nicely framed version of the art (complete with key of all of the “inside baseball” references hidden away).Then Steve McDonagh very kindly decided to enter the fray with his Map of the Lands of Lotii.

So what’s the deal? Well, over the next few weeks, and at Lotusphere itself, we are selling raffle tickets. They are $10 each. Then at UK Night at Lotusphere (on the Monday night) we will be holding the grand prize draw for the framed pixel art, and Mr McD’s art work. 

You can either click this button to pay online:

or you can collar Bruce, Gayle, Mark, Julian Woodward or myself at Lotusphere to buy a ticket from us direct.

The aim of all of this, apart from being fun, is that we raise as much money as possible for the Children’s Cancer Association, which is a great charity that provides support to seriously ill children and their families.

 

So, dig deep, buy as many tickets as you can afford and you may well be walking away from Lotusphere with some amazing artwork to hang on your office wall. (If you’re not going to Lotusphere then of course we’ll ship the prize to you.)

One of the things we’re doing over the next few weeks is gradually revealing different sections of the pixel art image, so here is this week’s image in which we see the iEd’s store.