On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 17:06 +0000, Jonathon Blake wrote: > Booth set layout will cost roughly $15 000. [This booth can be used > inside, or outside in any weather condition.] > > Once you have that, the ongoing expenses will be for: > i) Booth space; > ii) Literature to give away; > iii) CDs; > iv) User Guides / Books / Tutorials on OOo / Mozilla / FLOSS; [Sell these]
When me and Adam did NEA in LA, it cost about $5,000 including my flights from the UK, hotel etc but excluding our time. We made a bit selling OOo discs but I should think $1000 would be top wack. So if we said it cost $4000 an event, we can get to say 250 events for a million dollars. If we get OOo to 200 people at each event its 50,000 new users for $1m or $20 a user. May be it would be more effective to say "prove you are using OOo and we'll give you $20" :-) Seriously some sort of competition with prizes like install OOo and after say 6 months 100 lucky people win 10,000 dollars each. But you have to be using it for 6 months to trigger the winning. So lots of people down load OOo and use it on the off chance they might win 10 grand :-). Of course if they are using it for 6 months they might just keep using it. > >pay for TV advertising > > Like a late night infomercial? > > More seriously, getting something like _The Digital Tipping Point_ > aired on your local PBS affiliate would be more productive. [Or, if > you want to have a massive dream, dream that Fox will air it during > Prime Time.] :-) All of this is partly what inspired me to start the INGOTs. At least there is some chance of getting an income stream to do something rather than wishing on a rainbow ;-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
