On 11/04/06, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you know the bag/bolso/bossa industry or you know someone in it, read > this through. > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:49 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: > > Any ideas about the bags to be given to participants? > > Yesterday I saw the light!!! > > I was thinking of something with a local hint. Well, if you have been in > Barcelona / Catalonia / Spain into political activism, university > alternativism and other like lefty -isms you have seen these really > simple shoulder/messenger bags made of clothe with almost nothing, just > a rectangle where you can put like a phone guide and perhaps a sandwich > (aka un bocata y una libreta). > > I haven't found them because they were (are?) so normal that nobody took > a picture of them. ;) But they look like something between [...]
> Got it? Ok, then change the color-texture of the bag and make it blue > jeans! > > (something like > http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/Shoulder-Bag-Made/p/2000000003890/3000000179011/bg/1001679771.htm > > It's a GUADEC & tango friendly color. On the top of it the GNOME/GUADEC > logo and the rest of stuff in white. > > Catalonia has a tradition in clothe design and textile industry, so I > bet it's not difficult to find who could produce some hundreds of those > for a non-expensive price (*)... if you know which doors to knock. > > (*) Sure it will cost more than the average cheap conference bag, but a) > they would be great marketing tools because people will love it (my > partner says she wants one because she loves the GNOME foot) and b) we > could produce some more and sell them in the conference, just to cover > the expenses. Sound a bit ike the bags given out at the Lliurex congresso last May in Castellon. http://lliurex.net/home/va/node/126 I'll see if I can find a piccy. Those folks looked like they had a big budget but maybe they found somewhere cheap to get them. I think Jordi Mallach was involved in that so he might be able to help with contacts. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
