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On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 00:54 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote: |
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> 403, please change the permissions. |
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fixed.. my apologies |
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> Think about handing out CDs for 3$ each. If you produce |
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> them at the booth (as we do), you don't have leftovers and |
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> you you have also the flyers refinanced. |
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there are a lot of problems with this.. Anytime we have done cd's at |
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LWE they have never met the demand (LWE-SF has an attendance of about |
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6,000+ people). Also it is illegal to "sell" anything, although you can |
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request a donation. It was a pita one year when we had a spindle of |
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each arch pre-burned and people were taking one of each arch without |
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giving a donation. This is why I'd rather focus on literature... 200 |
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people could walk away with cds or 2500 people could walk away with |
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literature. I've also found that most of the people grabbing for the |
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CD's were gentoo users to begin with, looking for a souvenir, so in that |
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case it is not reaching a potential user either. |
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As for burning cds on the floor, we have a 10 foot by 10 foot booth, so |
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space for demos is limited as it is, making room for a cd burner would |
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be tough.. |
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Sorry, I don't mean to sound like I am against giving out CDs. I would |
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rather do it where we could get 1,000 cds professionally printed ahead |
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of time and hand them out, assuring that most of the people who want |
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them get them. This takes quite a bit of money. I could see it |
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happening in the future as the Foundation makes more money (revenue from |
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the store, etc), and have printed CDs at all events, but not this year. |
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Cheers! |
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-Corey |
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