While I like the idea of handing out some stuff, I'd note that the opportunity to do this effectively at SIGCSE is going to be fairly limited. SIGCSE attracts a pretty good set of vendors, and the conference committee looks for outside groups to get a booth if they want to interact with the attendees. Outside of that channel, there isn't much space for doing anything else.
There is a table put somewhere in the hall for putting single page flyers. You could put a pile of POSSE flyers there for instance. Even that space is often overloaded, with piles of flyers piled on top of each other. (I recall putting flyers for a summer faculty workshop there last year, and the entire table was about 2'x 4'.) Stuffing a flyer in the bag attendees receive is a possibility, but my recollection is that there's a charge to be included in that too. Greg Hislop -----Original Message----- From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 3:21 PM To: tos@teachingopensource.org Subject: Re: [TOS] SIGCSE is coming, who wants swag? Matthew Jadud wrote: > Sticky notes or thumb drives are probably more useful/longer lived > than whiteboard markers or erasers. For example, if you wanted to, you > could do thumb drives in a large enough quantity to give to (say) > people who come to the BOF, or some specific session on TOS/FOSS. That > might be a way to use the stickies/thumbdrive thing. (Or, perhaps you > were thinking of getting 10 of these... I don't know.) Sticky notes and notebooks are always good, I think, especially if pretty. Although there has been a bit of a trend at events for notebooks where the branding takes up a sizeable chunk of every page, meaning most people write on the unprinted back of the pages and the branding doesn't get seen much. Freebie thumb drives tend to be too small or slow to be liked, unless they've got some really compelling stuff loaded onto it. But like Matt says, define the audience and the swag may be obvious. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work http://www.software.coop/products/ _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
