hi. after already posting in -core someone pointed me to this thread ;)
1) I am going to be at FOSDEM (Flights booked still looking into some cheap B&B for a night or sth for me and a friend who's coming too) 2) I might still have a high quality print of the Gentoo logo from Linuxday(.at) in 2003 where I was (pretty much by myself unfortunately) doing a talk and a small booth 3) back then I handed out more than 30odd cds for sure .. but I guess nowadays a lot more people have fast internet connections 4) If there's gonna be a booth i can help out a bit but I'll want to look around a bit more as well since it's gonna be my first FOSDEM and we're only gonna be there some time saturday morning and fly back sunday evening. Regards ----------------original message----------------- From: "Markus Duft" [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:31:48 +0200 ------------------------------------------------- > On 08/27/2010 04:26 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >> On 26-08-2010 12:07, Alex Legler wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:01:27 +0200, Markus Duft >>> [email protected] wrote: >> >>>> booth registration is not yet open, i will have an eye on this too... >>>> (is there any interest in it anyway? who could come up with flyers, >>>> cds, etc.?) >> >> Any attempt to get a booth should be preceded by a serious discussion >> about what will be handed at the booth and who will be responsible to >> ensure the merchandise and promotion tools (banner?) are present. We >> should not forget that the experience in some of the former events >> wasn't "stellar". > > yeah, right :) > > i once worked in an advertising agency, where i can possibly get rather > good prices to print banners, flyers, etc. i just need them in digital > form. however transportation by plane is not so easy, if it's a lot. > > would it be an option to send them to somebody whos going by > train/car/whatever? (grobian?) > >> >>> The Gentoo e.V. has printed flyers a year ago. There should be plenty >>> left, especially in English. Talk to rbu, sping or hollow. Also, >>> there's other stuff like T-Shirts, see >>> https://www.gentoo-ev.org/wiki/Events for a few pictures. > > rbu, sping, hollow: any comments? :) will any of you be there? is there > some stuff left over we can use? > >> >>> As for CDs, we've used the 10.1 LiveDVDs, simply burned to DVD-R, but >>> with a nice printed label. You can expect to hand out at least 35 per >>> day (we gave them to people for free after a short chat). >> >> It would be great if we could get a LiveDVD release around January. It >> isn't simple and last year we weren't able to get it done by FOSDEM - we >> being mostly likewhoa. Having more people help testing and fixing >> packages would help. >> About CDs per day, I'm pretty sure we handed more than 35 on FOSDEM2009 >> and they weren't "pretty". > > if we get some funds for cds and ink from the foundaiton, i can both > burn and prettify (i.e. print directly on them). i guess 100 would be a > good number for the start? > > i will request funds as soon as we've come up with a list of things we > need. (so waiting for rbu/sping/hollow to respond in the first place now). > > markus > >> > >
