No objections from me. Selling them does have two or three benefits, though:
1. People feel like they're supporting GNOME 2. People who pay for a LiveCD are more likely to use it 3. Recuping costs is good. Cheers, Dave. Ken VanDine wrote: > Why sell the CDs, just to recoup the costs? rPath's marketing folks > has offered to pay to have 1000 CDs made up, with the GNOME artwork > for us to give away for free. Only request is to include a small > "built by rPath" type logo on it. Any objections? They are also the > same folks paying my way to manage the GNOME booth :) > > --Ken > > On 4/14/07, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 4/14/07, Ken VanDine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > rPath always has a booth, and we have noticed a major slowdown the >> > past couple shows. Not only Boston, by SF was slower too. We will >> > just hope this year is better :-D >> >> I was actually surprised to see you guys at the last one I went to. >> >> FWIW, I sold 123 of the liveCDs at $5/pop. There was a very slight >> profit (about $200), which I think ended up getting used to buy a >> round of beer at Summit. >> >> Luis >> >> > On 4/14/07, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > [cc'ing marketing-list instead of board.] >> > > >> > > On 4/14/07, Ken VanDine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > > I am very pleased to do it, I will email the marketing list to look >> > > > for volunteers to help. But if anyone here would be interested in >> > > > helping or can help find volunteers, that would be great. >> > > > >> > > > Does anyone have details from previous LWEs? Like number of >> visitors >> > > > to the booth? How many LiveCDs were given out? Anything else >> useful? >> > > >> > > In past years, several thousand booth visitors; I don't recall how >> > > many liveCDs I sold two years ago, but 'a lot'- a couple hundred, >> > > IIRC? I can try to look it up sometime later- not today, though. >> > > >> > > Note, though, that LWE is a wounded beast, AFAICT; floor traffic was >> > > down substantially during the second year in Boston, and I imagine >> the >> > > same is true in San Fran. So my numbers may not be as valid anymore. >> > > >> > > Luis >> > > >> > >> > > -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
