Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 17:34 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño a écrit : > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:47 -0500, Ariel Rios wrote: > > > > The GNOME Event Box in Europe has been really useful to the local groups > > > > and helped make their booths look really great. After some discussion, > > > > it was agreed that such a box would be most welcome for events in North > > > > America (where North America is at least Canada & US). > > Mexico should be part of North America and then have another one as > > Fernando suggested for South America. > > I think the situation is different in Europe than in Latin-America. > I do not think that is feasible to do it at least in South America > (I would like to be wrong, anyway). > > How feasible is to move the Event Box between countries? > How much does it cost in Europe according their experience?
If I'm not mistaken (Murray will correct me), sending the box costs around €100. I believe it mainly moved between Germany, UK and France so far, but I certainly hope other local groups will make use of it. > Probably is not so different between USA and Canada. I do not > know what about Mexico. Customs issue for Mexico, according to Federico. > In South America the distances are very different than in Europe > and our custom offices are not as friendly with us as I supossed > they are between europeans (because of the CE). > > So, If Fernando is asking for that box we should know that: > - The costs of moving the event box between countries (Chile- > Brazil, for instance) could be high. cargo + taxes + > custom fees, etc. > - The costs of such equipment according I see in Amazon.de > (the point of reference in live.gnome.org) are cheaper > than in Chile and I guess cheaper than in Brazil. (LCD, > desktop computer) > - Cables/paper/posters/t-shirts are cheaper in South America > than in Europe. > > If we are really interested in the Event Box, the less we must > to do is to figure out the cost of each item, prepare a proposal > and ask the board if this is feasible. At least to be serious. I (and probably other people in the board) would definitely be interested to see a box in Latin America if it's doable. Sounds like you have a plan :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list