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Greetings! |
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I've been working on organizing our presence at LWE in San Francisco |
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this year (coming up in August). I would like to propose a budget from |
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the Foundation for our booth. |
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The budget looks like so: |
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Flyers[1] $265 |
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Incidentals[2] $85 |
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Total $350 |
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[1] - This would cover an order of 2500 half-page (8.5 x 5.5) |
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double-sided full color flyers. I have a rough draft that I have been |
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working on lately and solicited assistance from the rest of the PR team. |
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The quote is from dgpink.com, a company that came recommended by solar |
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and horton |
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[2] - This category is meant to cover anything that is unexpected up |
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front or hard to estimate. This includes shipping of demo systems and |
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booth gear to and from the show. Also included may be any extra booth |
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rentals we decide to make (for example, at Boston an extra table was |
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rented for like $50). |
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In previous years of LWE either Daniel has taken care of things out of |
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pocket, one year IU paid for a lot of things, and we have also relied |
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upon booth donations in the past. None of these methods provides for |
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preparing materials ahead of time to give away. It's always a personal |
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peeve of mine to spend a week talking about Gentoo and not be able to |
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give visitors anything with our website or name to take home. The order |
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of flyers could cover a large demand (there will be about 5,000 - 7,000 |
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visitors to LWE this year, but not all of them will want a flyer of |
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course). If there are extra flyers we can save them for the next |
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conference. |
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I'm assuming we will have a tip jar again this year (we usually do). It |
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typically brings in one to a few hundred dollars. Any money made will |
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be returned to the Foundation as per instructions on the web site. My |
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purpose in stating this is not to guarantee that the budget will be |
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refunded, but to note that some of it will. |
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The purpose of this proposal (and our presence at LWE) is to help |
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further public knowledge of Gentoo. |
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Alternative to this proposal is to not have a budget at all. I have no |
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plans of funding flyers and such myself, so we may not have them |
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otherwise. (I don't mean that to sound as a threat, just to be thorough |
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in this email) |
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The timeframe for this budget is from upon approval until after a week |
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after LWE (August 19, 2005) |
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We can discuss this in email, or in bugzilla if someone else wants to |
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support this Foundation-wise (it's kinda unfair for me to do it, and |
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hence I should probably abstain from a vote on it too). |
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Cheers, |
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-Corey |
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