I think we should all get together and make a calendar...

Wouldn't that be sooo cool?? I don't mean a 12 month wall calendar, I'm talkin' about a 365 day to day desk calendar. So many pics are submitted by people, that everyone would get a chance to have their photo included. We could even include pages of BP artworks,pages of BP breeders, and feature a "BP care tip of the day" on each page. If admin or whomever commissions things like this were to actually do this, they could sell the calendars right on this site, just like the t-shirts and other stuff. I know I'd buy at least five!! Whaddya think???

We've considered using past BPOM winners as the calendar images - we would of course need the permissions of all who have previously entered - it's definitely been kicked around (i think it came up no more than a month ago from Jeanne) and with enough interest would be worth the effort!

We'll want to slog through the remainder of the FAQ project first, of course - let's gauge some interest!

If you'd like to start a new thread with a poll I would be happy to merge this thread into it.

That sounds like a great idea!! I don't use a calendar but it sounds like fun :D


I'll kick it off for ya :rolleye2:

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...python/me2.jpg

At the behest of 4thesnakelady here is the poll asking "Would you buy a calendar from our (cafepress) store if we made one?"

The idea as originally germinated would involve BPOM winners per-month with a given years' images used for the next calendar year (since we'd have a complete year of winners cataloged for that).

This would require explicit permission from the winners, sufficient interest to warrant the time and . . well that's about it really.

The only formats available would be a standard wall-hung 12 month type calendar and a one page referral calendar (upper half of page images, lower half all 12 months in small type).

(EDIT: The calendar would cost ~$17 dollars and the $2 profit would go towards site support/maintenance)

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Originally Posted by cueball

That sounds like a great idea!! I don't use a calendar but it sounds like fun :D


I'll kick it off for ya :rolleye2:

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...python/me2.jpg

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I thought I destroyed all these photos of me. :O

I think that the calender should have the 365 day reptile thing...

It would encompass ALL of our animals together. At least...the reptiles that are ours.

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Originally Posted by Melicious

I think that the calender should have the 365 day reptile thing...

It would encompass ALL of our animals together. At least...the reptiles that are ours.

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The problem with this would be finding someone to cover the printing costs. They would be quite huge. :( Would be a really fun project to put together, though.

I have looked on the web for companies selling page a day custom calendars...and I couldn't find any. If anybody has found such a company, how much are the day-to-day calendars versus the monthly wall one? I think that most of us would pay a little more for the page a day one...myself included.

365 day calendars the setup/printing costs woud be SOOOO prohibitive for small (<1000) orders.

The labor involved in setting them up would also preclude it from being an in-house project unfortunately - from captioning to getting 365 explicit permissions it would just utterly eclipse efforts in any other direction.

Still - would be interesting just to know what a printer would charge for something of that sort.

Well, I don't think we'd actually need 365 separate permissions, because likely many people would be submitting multiple pictures. Yes, collecting, choosing, arranging, formatting...all that would be a monumental effort in and of itself. But I'd be willing to do that...if we had someone to finance the effort. :P

I bet Adam would put up the coin, he is bankin'!!!





I will keep supplying semi racy b&w photos of myself for random flare. I have lots of em...haha!

Instead of asking for permission from people just create a thread or something where everyone submits the pics they want to and then the admin could choose which ones to use. That way you know they have your permission because they submitted it themselves! Oh, and i would definantly buy one or two!!!

you got my permit to use my BPOM pic, and good idea I will love to have one!!

personally i don't use daily calendars... but a daytimer with a week per glance would be fine.

I think that's a lovely idea! :)

That would be a good idea.....and the BP net logo could be on the front!!! And like someone else said, there could be a thread or similar thing where people submitted thier photos, and on the thread, there could be a statement saying that by submitting a photo you are granting permission of use of that pic....therefore, if they don't want to grant permission of use, just don't jump on the bandwagon!!! Great ideas!!! Y'all can use any of my photos you want.

While we do appreciate those of you who would let us use your pics, we are still left with trying to finance the effort.

No worries on financing - the 12 month calendar is the option available - and theres no overhead associated with it other than the meager time it will take to set it up and the logistics of getting permissions from the photographers :D

Permission granted for my BPOM and HOTM pictures as well :)

I am glad that this calender project was brought up, as I had mentioned it once before myself. After plenty of discussion amongst satff here at BP.Net, we have decided that this project will indeed be done, however, just not right now. Unfortunately, it is a bit late in the year to start a project like this.

I will be starting this effort in the next few months, once I establish the best way to do this. When this is set to begin, you will see a post on it with all the info you will need to take part in this project.

I would also like to Thank all of you for taking the time to take part in this discussion and help in furthering this by showing interest.