I also gave away £113 worth of KDE stickers I bought from handylabels.co.uk. These were very popular and all went on Saturday morning. The same quantity of lower quality stickers from vistaprint have never gone as fast before.
Jonathan On 6 February 2017 at 12:16, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > FOSDEM 2017 Wrapup > > We had a pleasingly successful FOSDEM this year with a KDE stall and > Desktop devroom and KDE Slimbook launch party meal/drinks. > > We had 19 people at the Saturday party. I asked for 200euro of food > and charged people 20euro each which worked perfectly with enough > money left over to buy everyone a beer. Sadly no women at the party > again which was commented on social media, la presidencia stood us up > for VLC. It was at http://www.magic-rubens.com/ which is owned by the > same guy who runs the venue I've used in previous years but that's > currently under repair http://www.lepaon.be/ > > We ran a stall, only 1 table again which is tight for space but we > managed. Our notes say we sold: > > KDE India 2-shirts €20 24 > Vinyl Sticker €2 6 > 20 Years Book €12 12 > Neon Shirts €25 6 > Cap €5 4 > USB drives €5 6 > Canvas bags €5 3 > Lanyards €2 6 > Mug €5 4 > Neon Fez €5 6 > Part of the Solution t-shirt €15 2 > Krita DVD €15 4 > > These figues are not accurate, unfortunately we often forgot to write > down what when sold so they are a large under-estimate. We had a > surplus of €935.40 which I've given to Lydia to bank. > > Stall demos were Slimbook, Docker images, Snappy package, Plasma > Mobile and WikitoLearn all of which were popular. We had signs with > an intro on it for the stall. The fezes gave us more visibility and > despite David Edmundson's skepticism about their connection to > anything whatsoever KDE they did sell out. > > I spent about €120 on KDE stickers from Handylabels which we gave out > for free and were very popular so we ran out by Saturday afternoon, > maybe ration them a bit next year. > > I only got to one talk on Subsurface which had a full room. Other KDE > talks were on Slimbook, Kube and Flatpak/Snappy which was a good > proportion of all the desktop room talks. Pau managed the room all > himself and deserves hugs. > > FOSDEM continues to grow and be an impressive event. Looking at > various unscientific metrics KDE presence at the event continues to > remain strong and steady even while the rest of the Free Software > movement continues to grow.