SIGCSE is coming up in less than a month. More immediately, I've got to file all fiscal year 2010 Red Hat expenses by the end of next Friday (2/18), so I'm trying to get all SIGCSE swag purchases in before then.
One thing I want to offer is sets of TOS business cards for people who'll be at SIGCSE - these aren't intended to replace your institutional business card, but rather complement them and help answer the repeated questions that we tend to get about our TOS activities so we don't have to keep writing out the URL, etc... Imagine being able to hand out something like this alongside your normal business card: +-----------------------------------------+ | <your name goes here> | | <your institution and position> | | http://teachingopensource.org | | | | Involving students as contributors | | to open source communities as part | | of their academic experience | | | | To get started, join our mailing list: | | <link to list signup URL> | | POSSE faculty workshop: | | <link to POSSE URL> | | | My class: <class URL> | +-----------------------------------------+ Obviously this will have graphics and such, but it is still a pretty boring design. Thoughts on improving it welcome (do we not need to put your institution name on here? should the POSSE URL be there? what FAQs have you gotten? etc.) If you want a bunch of these, give me the info you want on your cards by the end of Wednesday, whatever your timezone is, because I will be placing orders Thursday afternoon EST. You'll be able to grab your cards from me or Sebastian at SIGCSE, I'll have them all shipped to our hotel (and yes, we'll be at the HFOSS symposium). You do NOT need to be a professor to get these! (Heck, I'm not a professor and I'm getting them...) But you do have to be coming to SIGCSE, at least for this round. We'll see how the experiment goes then and consider making more for other folks afterwards if these are a hit. What other sorts of SIGCSE TOS swag would be most useful? Some brainstorming results from Max and Sebastian: * Posters (with what design?) * Flyers (with what design?) * Info packets (with what design?) * TOS whiteboard markers (we made these for the first POSSE and again for LinuxCon - they say "should this be on the wiki?" along with the TOS URL). * TOS whiteboard erasers * Get pony, paint TOS logo on it (...okay, probably over budget) * TOS sticky notes * TOS or POSSE-branded thumbdrives By default, I'm going to go for whiteboard markers, flyers, and POSSE-branded thumbdrives unless people go "noooo! bad idea!" or "really, <this> would be more useful!" Note that we're *not* making tshirts because everybody makes t-shirts and I think whiteboard markers are more likely to be used frequently by faculty. Thoughts? Card design thoughts, and/or requests for cards? Reply to the list! --M _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
