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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:35:48PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> Anyway, about the events kit idea. What do people think that we would |
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> need? What do we shoot for? What size of a show is large enough? How |
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> do we determine how much schwag/handouts do we need? |
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> Personally, I think the metric for how "important" a show is should be |
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> the number of attendees. It's something that's outside the control of |
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> Gentoo, but a good metric of the amount of positive exposure that Gentoo |
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> gets for a given expenditure. |
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Not disagreeing - it certainly makes sense to send less to a smaller show, more |
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to a larger show. But a part of *what* is sent should be based on the |
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anticipated audience of the show. A show geared towards companies would have a |
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different selling point than one geared towards users (LWE vs Ohio LinuxFest, |
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for example). All that said, though - what are the current costs for items vs. |
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how many can be produced vs. budget? I've actually never been to any of these |
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conferences, so I don't have first hand experience in what is the norm. I know |
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for the govie tech shows, the tables range from giving away something with their |
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name on them to full blown media - but without fail they all have glossies about |
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what makes them different/better. With that tainted experience in mind (because |
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I realize federal tech shows are probably a different beast all together, but |
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it's what I know first hand) I'd say we should have two types of handouts. One |
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for the (potential-)users, maybe a quick hack guide to gentoo (commands, key |
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files, etc.), and one for the more "professional" set that just bullets the |
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virtues of gentoo. If double sided printing isn't too expensive, they could be |
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the same glossie, but my thinking is that we can't afford to make a few thousand |
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Gentoo embossed pens (like my shiny red had pen), and we can't afford to just be |
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another score in some convention goers bag of "look at the junk i collected from |
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the booths". |
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am i off in lala land? i'm stopping now because i think i started to ramble. |
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