On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:41 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 17:06 +0000, Jonathon Blake wrote: > [snip] > > Booth set layout will cost roughly $15 000. [This booth can be used > > inside, or outside in any weather condition.] > > Sun did finance some OOo banners for stands at exhibitions some time ago > but I'm told they cost a fortune to FedEx from place to place and got > tatty very quickly. > > Has anyone any experience of these kinds of stands for use at > exhibitions: > http://www.displaysgalore.co.uk/exhibition-displays-bannerstands.html > and how would we solve the logistics problem?
If you have artwork that can be rolled up and then velcroed to the stand its quite inexpensive to send in the normal post. Most exhibitions will rent stands but it tends to be quite expensive, around $1000 depending on size and accessories. The logistics of transporting a stand have to be weighed up against this. You can get collapsable things that you could fit on an aircraft as luggage as in the link you provided but it tends to look less professional. I have a foldable stand that I intended to take to LA but it was too big in dimensions for American Airlines. You are still talking a few thousand dollars per event though in overall costs unless someone provides space on their stand - this is a potential problem too if it looks like OOo is not completely separate from the "sponsor". I had intended to do a series of joint OOo events with INGOTs like this in the coming year but I have had to re-think that because of perceived conflict of interest debacle after the NEA conference in LA. I think the biggest issue is where does the money comes from to pay for presence at these events? Not so much the time of the people as I'm sure there will be volunteers, but travel, hotel accommodation, the booth space, discs to sell or give away etc. I have quite a lot of experience of booth work over the years and although its not hugely expensive it is a significant cost and physically very tiring. Unless Sun under-writes it I can't see who else is going to pay. Selling merchandise on the day, based on the experiment I did with Adam isn't going to come close to covering the costs. In a nutshell, the marketing project needs a revenue stream. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
