I know I am not part of the Marketing team but I was thinking that giving out a gift every release is a good one. It is a time when all of use feel a great sense of accomplishment and it's a good time, heart warm, when we could give someone one of these gifts. Maybe it's too much money, but it sounded nice in my mind :D
Andy On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Christian Boltz <opens...@cboltz.de> wrote: > Hello, > > [please reply on the opensuse-project mailinglist!] > > Some time ago, we collected ideas for contributor gifts on > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Contributor_gifts > and also decided who should receive a gift - see > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682098 > (basically active members + GSOC students + an option to propose someone > who contributed a lot, but isn't a member (yet)). > > I discussed with AJ today which items on the list would be possible and > would make sense. That made list much shorter ;-) > > The contributor gifts should be something special/exclusive IMHO, not > the "usual" stuff we hand out to visitors at conferences or stuff you > can order via shop.o.o. I'd say the symbolic value is more important > than the price - no gold bar with geeko embossing needed ;-) > > > The narrowed down list contains these proposals: > > a) things you can touch > > - coffee mugs > - caps > - T-Shirt (not an exceptional idea, but people like them) > - USB memory sticks (with bootable openSUSE) > - openSUSE playing cards > > The design should be something special that is only available to > contributors/members and should contain a hint that the person who > wears/owns item is an openSUSE contributor/member. (Take the 11.1 > "iContribute" t-shirts as an example.) > > The openSUSE playing cards are an idea on its own. While the easiest way > would be to create "normal" playing cards and just replace king and > queen with Tux and Geeko, having a special "openSUSE game" would be even > better. (But that would probably also mean it won't be ready when we > release 12.1.) > > When we send out a parcel, we can always add things like stickers, some > promo DVDs and a cheat sheet poster. And of course a "thank you" letter. > > > b) Awards at openSUSE conference for contributions in a few categories > > There would be some categories (for example marketing, packaging, > development, bugreporting etc.), and the top-contributor in each > category would receive a price. This price would be "bigger" and more > personal compared to the items in a) > > The handling could be done similar to how KDE does Akademy awards: > Winners from last year choose winners from next year; would only need > 'starting up' for us (categories and winners). The only risk is that not > everybody might love that sort of "paperwork" to choose next year's > winners so we might need some volunteers as fallback. > > > c) software > > SLE* license for free or at least a special price (a restriction to > "updates only, without support" if you do it for free would be OK). > The problem with this option is that not everybody needs a SLE* license. > > > > If we decide on one of those, then the next problem comes up: money ;-) > At the moment there isn't a budget available, but AJ sees at least > chances to get one. (We'll probably have to discuss the details after > deciding which of the above we want to do - or if we spend the money for > something totally different.) > > Beside the costs for the gifts itsself, we also have to keep shipment > costs and customs in mind. This leads to another question: > > When/how often do we send a gift to a contributor? The options are: > - at every release > - once a year - (could even reduce shipment costs - people visiting the > conference could get it there, so we have to ship only to those who > can't come to the conference) > - once when you become a member - call it a "member welcome package" ;-) > (and of course the current members would also receive it) > > > I'm open for feedback. What of the above do you think would make a good > contributor gift? When/how often should we send one? Or shouldn't we > send one at all and spend the money otherwise? > > > > There are also some good ideas in the wiki page would make good > giveaways at conferences, trade fairs etc: > - geeko-shaped paperclips > - geeko/openSUSE pins > - key fobs > - lanyards > - jellybaby geekos - someone (Klaas?) mentioned this idea at the > conference, but the problem seems to be that producing the shape/form > is expensive. The jellybybies itsself are quite cheap compared to > that. > > @marketing team: feel free to use any of those ideas ;-) > > > Regards, > > Christian Boltz > -- > [Loadbalancer vor Mailservern] > Ausbauen, bei Ebay verhökern und die frei gewordene Zeit zusammen mit > dem Ebay-Erlös in eine große Betriebsparty mit Cocktails anlegen. > [Peer Heinlein in postfixbuch-users] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+ow...@opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+ow...@opensuse.org
