Re: [gentoo-dev] FOSDEM 2011

[Thomas Raschbacher]

hi.

after already posting in -core someone pointed me to this thread ;)

1) I am going to be at FOSDEM (Flights booked still looking into some cheap
B&B for a night or sth for me and a friend who's coming too)
2) I might still have a high quality print of the Gentoo logo from
Linuxday(.at) in 2003 where I was (pretty much by myself unfortunately)
doing a talk and a small booth
3) back then I handed out more than 30odd cds for sure .. but I guess
nowadays a lot more people have fast internet connections
4) If there's gonna be a booth i can help out a bit but I'll want to look
around a bit more as well since it's gonna be my first FOSDEM and we're only
gonna be there some time saturday morning and fly back sunday evening.

Regards


----------------original message-----------------
From: "Markus Duft" markus.duft@×××××××.at
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
CC: rbu@g.o, sping@g.o, hollow@g.o
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:31:48 +0200
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> On 08/27/2010 04:26 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
>> On 26-08-2010 12:07, Alex Legler wrote:
>>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:01:27 +0200, Markus Duft
>>> markus.duft@×××××××.at wrote:
>>
>>>> booth registration is not yet open, i will have an eye on this too...
>>>> (is there any interest in it anyway? who could come up with flyers,
>>>> cds, etc.?)
>>
>> Any attempt to get a booth should be preceded by a serious discussion
>> about what will be handed at the booth and who will be responsible to
>> ensure the merchandise and promotion tools (banner?) are present. We
>> should not forget that the experience in some of the former events
>> wasn't "stellar".
>
> yeah, right :)
>
> i once worked in an advertising agency, where i can possibly get rather
> good prices to print banners, flyers, etc. i just need them in digital
> form. however transportation by plane is not so easy, if it's a lot.
>
> would it be an option to send them to somebody whos going by
> train/car/whatever? (grobian?)
>
>>
>>> The Gentoo e.V. has printed flyers a year ago. There should be plenty
>>> left, especially in English. Talk to rbu, sping or hollow. Also,
>>> there's other stuff like T-Shirts, see
>>> https://www.gentoo-ev.org/wiki/Events for a few pictures.
>
> rbu, sping, hollow: any comments? :) will any of you be there? is there
> some stuff left over we can use?
>
>>
>>> As for CDs, we've used the 10.1 LiveDVDs, simply burned to DVD-R, but
>>> with a nice printed label. You can expect to hand out at least 35 per
>>> day (we gave them to people for free after a short chat).
>>
>> It would be great if we could get a LiveDVD release around January. It
>> isn't simple and last year we weren't able to get it done by FOSDEM - we
>> being mostly likewhoa. Having more people help testing and fixing
>> packages would help.
>> About CDs per day, I'm pretty sure we handed more than 35 on FOSDEM2009
>> and they weren't "pretty".
>
> if we get some funds for cds and ink from the foundaiton, i can both
> burn and prettify (i.e. print directly on them). i guess 100 would be a
> good number for the start?
>
> i will request funds as soon as we've come up with a list of things we
> need. (so waiting for rbu/sping/hollow to respond in the first place now).
>
> markus
>
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>
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