Hi, On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:14:29PM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:59:58PM -0400, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:14:51PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > > a) Lanyards > > > As I've said on IRC, if the sponsors team decide to do a last minute > > promotion > > for a given sponsor I'd accept it, but personally I think this is not the > > best > > option at all. Given that branded-colored lanyards draw much attention I > > know > > many people who won't be happy using it, mainly if it has > > Ubuntu > > Or Intel. There would be Options. > > > printed on it. > > I'd like to, again, note that this was not a suggestion by either sponsor, > and neither sponsor is trying to get a higher sponsorship level with this. > This was an attempt by me to save the DebConf organization some money since > previous discussions of cost on various issues have caused anxiety. > > This is one of the things that I don't consider worth spending another 1000 > CHF on, especially considering other things we have chosen, as a team, to > not spend money on. > > > So I'd leave this option as something option in the frontdesk for those who > > want to take one. > > > There's an option raised by hug which would cost about CHF 700 to make it in > > time (CHF 2.46 per lanyard). They would be custom Debian lanyards with up > > to 4 > > colors. We could even make a bit more for selling (?) I think it's very > > valuable, since people use to save them to use in many others events, > > promoting > > the project in some way. I've experienced that in Brazil for many years and > > I > > still have mine. See an example (not me in the picture): > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/beraldoleal/5898404742/lightbox/ > > And this would be a great option, if we didn't have other budget concerns > and arguments as is. I, personally, feel a good conference dinner and day
I also prefer a good conference dinner and day than a fancy lanyard, but I'd go without a luxurious dinner in a boat to save ~15k, as I've advocated to save ~5k on dishwashing. I would also be happy saving ~CHF700 on lanyards, but I think it's something that doesn't hurt the budget too much, mainly when considering the total price x benefits for the conference. > trip is much more valuable than a lanyard. I, also, have a Debian lanyard > from Brazil (somewhere in my house) that I've kept, but those were planned > for and budgeted into DC4, which is not the case here. As I remember it was not in the DC4 budget, we had very cheap ones for that conference. I'm pretty sure it was an initiative from Debian-Brasil people. > I think having them available for sale at the conference is worthy, and > people could certainly buy one for 5 CHF (or whatever) if they'd prefer to > have that over one of the "free" (yes, free. Logo or not, they cost the > attendees nothing.) lanyards. gratis for promoting, a 'freeware' I'd say :) > But, I don't think we should expect everyone > to purchase one either. I think this is an acceptable thing to have *in > addition to the complimentarily provided lanyards*, but not something to > expect attendees to purchase to be able to display their badges, nor the > only option available. All these priorities are very personal, so I don't think it worths to argue too much here, mainly considering that we are all trying to provide the best for our beloved debian people. Let's try to reach a consensus as we have done for other money issues. I keep thinking that such last minute promotion is a sensible decision to be made just for saving a little money. I'd like to hear from other people. Regards, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .''`. Tiago Vaz GPG : 1024D/A504FECA : :' : http://acaia.ca/~tiago XMPP : tiago at jabber.org `. `' tiago at debian.org IRC : tiago at OFTC `- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal OS http://www.debian.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
