Re: Conference Swag
2010/1/6 Karen Pauley : > 2009/12/25 Gabor Szabo : >> >> That made me think that we might have wooden beer coasters as well. While I >> know >> this time of the year is not the best for trying to arrange things but Karen, >> could you check please if the company that makes the wooden tuits >> would also make 3.5-4" sized ones and how much would those cost? > I was only given the information on price for the tuits and not the > information on who actually makes them. I'll find that out. The company that TPF uses is http://www.wooden-nickel.com/. They only produce coins and not larger things like coasters. All the best, Karen
Re: Conference Swag
On 6 Jan 2010, at 08:17, Renée Bäcker wrote: > Hi Karen, > > Thomas Fahle has created a LiveDVD [1]. Would TPF pay for 1000 DVDs? It would > be about 850 EUR [2]. Should be able to get it done cheaper than that if you shop around. My usual duplicator is UKP 0.48 in wallet per disc at a run of 1000.
Re: Conference Swag
Hi Karen, Thomas Fahle has created a LiveDVD [1]. Would TPF pay for 1000 DVDs? It would be about 850 EUR [2]. Cheers, Renée [1] http://perl-howto.de/2009/12/modern-perl-ubuntu-8043-lts-live-dvd.html (german) [2] Calculated at http://akomedia.de -- Perl-Magazin: http://perl-magazin.de Perl-Nachrichten: http://perl-nachrichten.de
Re: Conference Swag
2009/12/25 Gabor Szabo : > > That made me think that we might have wooden beer coasters as well. While I > know > this time of the year is not the best for trying to arrange things but Karen, > could you check please if the company that makes the wooden tuits > would also make 3.5-4" sized ones and how much would those cost? You are right about that - I managed to lose this message amongst the hundred or so others that needed a response after the holidays :( I was only given the information on price for the tuits and not the information on who actually makes them. I'll find that out. All the best, Karen
Re: Conference Swag
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Karen Pauley wrote: >> Gabor mentioned the round-tuits that have been given away at other >> Perl events. TPF uses these each year at OSCON and I inquired about >> the cost. We have been paying $70 for 150 of them or $90 for 300. > > The first 150 are really expensive (46 c/tuit) but then the rest is 13 > cent/tuit > sounds reasonable. If we could order a larger batch e.g. 1500 pieces should be > less than 250 USD. > They could be given to our representatives not only on the conferences > where we have a booth but on other events as well. On the EPO list Jay Kuri suggested to hand out cardboard/fiber beer coasters. This shop http://www.canadacoaster.com/pricing.php sells 5000 pcs for 500 USD + 100 USD shipping. (12c/pcs) That made me think that we might have wooden beer coasters as well. While I know this time of the year is not the best for trying to arrange things but Karen, could you check please if the company that makes the wooden tuits would also make 3.5-4" sized ones and how much would those cost? regards Gabor
Re: Conference Swag
Another thing we did for XCSoar (www.xcsoar.org) is to print business cards. This was more appropriate for that project because it was a project rather than an event, but was even cheaper than post cards. Scott
Re: Conference Swag
We have often used post cards for our conferences (OSDC). Amanda has some of the old art here: http://amanda.dd.com.au/gallery/arch/commissions/open-sauce.html I think they are cheap and an excellent advertising tool. Mostly though, it is amazingly easy to get other groups to hand them out for you. You can post a few around to user groups, conferences, even commercial conferences, and generally people are happy to put them in registration bags or at the desk. Scott On 16/12/2009, at 7:31 PM, Karen Pauley wrote: > Hello, > > (This is a resend of the message I sent 5 days ago.) > > As Gabor mentioned in his welcome message to the list we need to think > about things that we can give away at the stalls we plan to have at > the various conferences. > > Gabor mentioned the round-tuits that have been given away at other > Perl events. TPF uses these each year at OSCON and I inquired about > the cost. We have been paying $70 for 150 of them or $90 for 300. > > I go to quite a few conferences each year and I have been trying to > think if I have been given anything interesting this year. At OSDC > Australia I was given a postcard that was an advert for linux.conf.au > which is taking place 18th-23rd January next year. > > (The conference web-site is at: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/) > > This was an interesting enough way to let someone like me know about a > new conference. It's not heavy, doesn't take up a lot of room, and I > did bring it back to Tokyo with me. (Lots of the advertising material > I am given ends up in the bin before the end of a conference as I > don't want to carry anything that isn't necessary.) > > Unfortunately I didn't get time to photograph it before started to > travel again. When I get home at the end of the month I'll go through > all the conference bags I got this year and photograph anything > interesting I find. > > All the best, > > Karen
Re: Conference Swag
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Karen Pauley wrote: > Gabor mentioned the round-tuits that have been given away at other > Perl events. TPF uses these each year at OSCON and I inquired about > the cost. We have been paying $70 for 150 of them or $90 for 300. The first 150 are really expensive (46 c/tuit) but then the rest is 13 cent/tuit sounds reasonable. If we could order a larger batch e.g. 1500 pieces should be less than 250 USD. They could be given to our representatives not only on the conferences where we have a booth but on other events as well. e.g. I am sure there are going to be Perl hackers on the Australian Linux Conference (in New Zealand) you mentioned. I added it to our list of events. If there are people who are ready to be the representatives we can already give them some of the tuits to hand out. > I go to quite a few conferences each year and I have been trying to > think if I have been given anything interesting this year. At OSDC > Australia I was given a postcard that was an advert for linux.conf.au > which is taking place 18th-23rd January next year. That sounds like a good idea maybe putting the list of YAPCs, Perl Workshops in the coming 12 months - at least the ones we already know about. Gabor
Re: Conference Swag
Hi *, Karen Pauley schrieb: I go to quite a few conferences each year and I have been trying to think if I have been given anything interesting this year. At OSDC Australia I was given a postcard that was an advert for linux.conf.au which is taking place 18th-23rd January next year. Postcards are not that expensive. We have printed 500 pcs. for our perl magazine. Price? I have to look at the invoice... But we should not only think about giveaways, but also about the "design" of the booth. It should look professional. Maybe we need a banner or something like this... Cheers, Renée -- Perl-Magazin: http://perl-magazin.de Perl-Nachrichten: http://perl-nachrichten.de
