alan c wrote: > > Note- the basic reason for the leaflet being non colour is quite > simply, cost. At the Mac world/Linux world in London earlier in the > year, I found that 80 per day (4 days) went. If there is even minimal > colour, it changes the basis of cost a lot. And my wife knows I am on > a pension...... > > There is another tangential reason for me not using much - if any - > colour. Although Ubuntu is backed by a commercial company, it is easy > for the onlooker to believe that these free CDs are the same as any > other 'free' CD - that they have an invisible hook into their wallet. > > I believe that simple non colour leaflets allow a gentle message that > at my end at least, this is a pure volunteer community based activity. > If I do have any shipit CDs then wonderful, however, most times I burn > my own and they are lowest cost, hand marked, for the same reason. > > Yes I can see your point. I have distributed a fair few Ubuntu & Open Disc CDs at local shops including one computer shop who sell CDs, all this has been funded by myself (usually a case of buying 100 or so CDs online, burning them, printing labels and sticking them in sleeves to give away). Although the per disc cost isn't much (say 20p a disc) it all mounts up. What I'm hoping to do at the first upcoming event (a school fete) is to give away the Ubuntu CDs which I have got from Ship-It along with leaflets and sell copies of the OpenDisc at say 50p a disc which covers my expenses and any profits will then go to the school. I'm actually hoping that I can encourage the school to get the pupils to help out (say to design a CD label, CD inlay and maybe a flyer) and then they could sell copies of the disc at the school.
Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
