That's another interesting idea. To market PCs for the kids to take home themselves, rather than just for their time at school. That's a really good idea. To be honest, we could probably do some sort of deal like "get 100" box tokens and get £50 of this computer. Then the partnership with the hardware dealers would come to fruition.
There seem to be many strands evolving within this single thread. I feel a bit like a bull in a china shop. Is there a wiki which we can update with these individual project ideas? I quite fancy having a go at the Kellogg's one - trying to get a CD in their cereal boxes, with a nice advert on the back. Regards, Andy On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:30:14 -0500, "Alexandro Colorado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if we can partner with a hardware manufacturer. For example I > know tha Zonboo and Koolu are companies specializing in small "green" > computers. However the fact that they just have started might also face > marketing challenges and 'getting the word out'. > > I bet they will LOVE to see their brand on every cereal box. Also it might > be a perfect 'kids pc'. > > http://www.koolu.com/ > > http://www.zonbu.com/home/index.htm > > Also there is other companies that are FLOSS-friendly that might be > interested: > > http://system76.com/ and http://tvease.net (MythTV PVR Builder) > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:14:08 -0500, andylockran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So the main thing now is strategy. IMHO we would be better finding a >> big supplier and in-effect outsourcing the box tokens to them. >> However, I'm sure they'll want to know the benefit to them. I suppose if >> we say 1,000 gets you a computer for the school - and 10,000 gets a >> thin-client cluster then that'd work.. but we've branched the idea away >> from OOo on CD. (and from OOo t-shirts). >> >> I think the box token idea is good - but for OOo specifially, I think >> the CD approach would work better. There are already 'computers for >> schools' projects - and our message (in my opinion) should be re-use, >> rather than buy new. >> >> Regardsm >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:09:09 +0200, CTVN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Box tokens. >>> >>> thats a really good idea as well as it increases incentives of "box >>> owners" to co-operate. >>> >>> if the big ones dont wanna participate, there is a whole lot of unknown >>> brands distributed through the low cost wal-marts and aldis (european >>> version). its not even restricted to cereals - anything that is in a >>> supermarket and has a certain box size can carry the message/token/cd. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Coreteam VN >>> >>> Gartengasse 21 >>> 8010 Graz >>> AUSTRIA >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES > http://es.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
