On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 08:24 -0700, Larry Cafiero wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org> > wrote: > > P.S. The event box currently lives with Larry Cafiero who > keeps it in his house, restocks it with the supplies we've > given him and ships it from event to event. Right now without > a schedule or a process, we're asking him todo a lot of work. > And he already maintains the Fedora event box too. > > > Actually, it lives in my office :-) . While it's fine that it lives > here and while I can stock it with swag, etc., from time to time (and > when needed), I am far from the master guru that this box needs to > attend to it. > > Thanks, Stormy, for addressing this issue and I'd be glad to help with > any transition to someone who wants to take on this important duty. > > To address Bryen's comment in another e-mail about media, I will make > sure that the box has Fedora CDs and DVDs. > With all due respect, while I was glad that I was able to facilitate providing openSUSE CD's at the CSUN conference, I was a bit uncomfortable with the fact that we were the only ones with media. I felt it gave visitors the impression that openSUSE was the preferred distro of GNOME Foundation, and would have been more comfortable with providing a selection to our visitors.
With the CSUN Conference, we've already resolved not to let that happen again and make sure that next year's conference will have multiple selections. I think its best that we ensure that practice for all GNOME Foundation booth events. As for counts, just to give an idea. We had 300 CDs, (Live, 32-bits, and 64-bits) and were left with about 30 afterward. We also gave out 50 shirts. I think asking the major distros to contribute media and swag up front would motivate many of them to do so, as it reduces their own costs of coordinating shipments on a per-event basis and gives them additional advertising. Of course, all this means more work for you divvying up the goodies, and maybe that's not a good idea either. Bryen > Larry Cafiero > > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list