Hey Dan. Some of these questions Chris can answer better than anyone since hes the one putting in the order and having these printed upon completion. In case he doesnt get back to you I can answer some of these questions for you.
1. I do remember someone stating it will have a hole to hang from, and based on the layout of the calendar the hole most likely wont be interfering with the actually picture at all. Here is a link to page 18 of the discussion thread, half way back, about a week ago. Its our latest design of the interior of the calendar that Christopher (not to be confused with Chris), primarily came up with.
http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,988.170.htmlFor the most part it will look something like this. We have small details to work out such as rounded edges vs straight, whether to include country flag or not, very minor things like that. As you probably know we are in the process of narrowing down the final 12 pictures to correspond with the 12 months. Then we will plan on doing the brief write ups which wont take long. After that Im guessing we will address the bottom half of each page of the calendar and some of the things you brought up such as next months calendar on each month, to place the moon data inside as most calendars do...right now we are debating on holidays...and for some reason its a very touchy issue...some want to include only world or UN holidays, but some have great points that lots of these days can be construed as being political or divisive, even though they all relate to peace and eradicating poverty and war, etc.....
To answer some of your other questions...as you can tell by the draft I included, kivas logo will be on every page in a very subtle and not overly stated fashion, and the web addresses, because they are so long and awful looking, will most likely be placed on the back next to a miniature picture of each entrepreneur represented within the calendar. We have accomplished so much in only 11 days after starting from scratch and Jill bringing this idea to light once again. We still have about two- maybe three weeks to get it together in order to have them ready by mid to late October. Our most time consuming tasks remaining to complete are the cover and the back. There will also be an extra page (two actually- the backside of the front cover and the page on the back of the January picture), which will include any variety of information such as an intro to Kiva, how to use it, testimonials, and pertinent info...There will be lots of ideas here, but once it gets decided, writing it up will be no problem. We will also include mentions from Oprah and President Clinton as well along with some current Kiva stats. We may pull info and introductions straight from kiva.org with their permission...since they have given us permission for everything else, including logos, pictures, etc...
As far as glossy or mat, Chris would have to answer that one, but an excellent question...one of the few that has not yet been asked about the calendar. Hope this answers some of your questions. If you have others feel free to post and I or anyone else would be happy to answer them to the best of our ability. I know it would be such a burden to read the calendar thread through from page 1, especially since much of it pertains to sifting through and debating ideas about what to include or exclude and how to go about the whole process.
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