Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

[Allan Day]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Tobias Mueller  wrote:
> Hey folks :)
>
> On 06.02.2012 16:05, Allan Day wrote:
>> Do we know if there is room in the box for those things?
> We do. And it doesn't. At all. There has barely been enough space to fit
> the nice nametags we had. That's for the v2 box (which should be called
> v3 because of GNOME3 anyway ;-) ) but the v1 box didn't have significant
> space left as I've last seen it in May.
>
> Your suggestions are very good though. We should try to figure out how
> to get things like more merchandise or roll up displays around the world.
> Some suggestions that need evaluation:
>
> Simply have another box with the additional stuff.
> But we'd need to find out:
>        How much does such a box cost?
>        Much much does shipping cost?
>        And well, then we need an educated guess whether these costs
>        are worth the expected promotional effect.

If we want a better stand, we need more stuff for the stand, and that
means we need more transport capacity. That means either another box
or a bigger box. :)

Is someone able to find out how much another box would cost to buy and
transport? Do we know how many times a year the events box is used?

> Somehow attach more things to the existing box, i.e. with duct tape
> (which is currently not present in the box ;-) ).
>        Does it make sense at all to have such a construction shipped?
>        Is there a container that is attachable to the box?
>
> Distribute more, i.e. make more people have more stuff.
>        Well, I guess it costs a lot of money to distribute everything
>        multiple times so that shipping will never be necessary. But
>        then again, that's just a feeling and I haven't checked it.
>
>> Who has the box at the moment?
> Me. I wanted to bring it to CeBIT. But so far we lack people to stand at
> the booth. So it's probably not going to happen :-/

Yeah, these options don't seem to be as practical.

Allan
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A11y Talks

[Bryen M Yunashko]

I have submitted my standard "A11y--It's about you!" talks to the
following conferences.  Though my presentation will go through a major
revamp soon before I use them.

April 13-15 - Indiana Linux Fest -- Indianapolis, IN
April 28-29 - Linux Fest Northwest -- Bellingham, WA
May 3-5 - Utah open Source Conference -- Salt Lake City, UT

I won't be giving a talk at Flourish! Conference in Chicago, because
luckily they already loved Meg Ford's submission.  :-)

If anyone wishes to join me as a co-presenter at these events, you are
more than welcome to ping me.

My presentation will cover three points:
-- Overview of the AT tools available to GNOME users
-- The legal importance of accessibility on the desktop
-- A walkthrough demonstration of tools such as Accerciser.

The overall message of the presentation is that even if you don't think
you care about accessibility, it still matters to you.

Bryen M Yunashko


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Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

[Bryen M Yunashko]

On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 11:07 +, Allan Day wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Tobias Mueller  wrote:
> > Heya :)
> >
> > On 07.02.2012 11:48, Olav Vitters wrote:
> >> The information leaflets are in black and white [...]
> >> ^^ send me a (link to a) PDF and I'll print
> > Yeah, well. I guess we'd need a leaflet first ;-) I prepared something
> > here: 
> >
> > Feel free to add or thoughts, or better yet: Work on it ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Tobi
> 
> We should figure out what the leaflets are for and who the audience
> will be. For FOSDEM we don't really need 'What is GNOME' leaflets, for
> example (or am I wrong). However, leaflets for Friends of GNOME or
> even GNOME Love might be more appropriate.
> 
> Since we're discussing new tablecloths, stickers, banners and
> leaflets, we should also make sure that they have a consistent look.
> 
> Allan

I'm actually working on banners distribution right now for the US
portion of the openSUSE team, so this is kind of timely to add my two
cents.

The plan we're going with is to print up two banners.  1 is a 4x8 foot
banner and the other is a 2x6 foot banner.  The former one is meant to
drape the background of the booth as most booths are 8 feet wide.  And
the latter is meant to wrap around the front of the table.

Roll up vinyl banners are quite weildly to ship around, especially a 4x8
banner.  You'd need a box that can actually take a four-foot long rolled
up banner.

Our solution is to just ship them to our ambassadors once and let them
hang on to it for their next events.  It seems so much cheaper than
shipping the rollups back and forth.  

We found this website to print up our banners.  Seems to be the cheapest
I've come across thus far.  http://www.bannersonthecheap.com/

As for a booth box kit, we don't do that.  We've had decent success with
everyone bringing their own laptops to use for demonstration.  In
addition, I bring a 15-inch digital picture frame to use as a slideshow
display in the booth.

We do ship our PromoDVDs on request, and if we have any marketing
materials, such as brochures or stickers or other, we ship them too,
subject to availability.

We've visited the idea of a booth box kit several times over the years
and just never found it feasible.  I can only imagine how much that box
from GNOME costs to ship around.  I believe for that same amount, you
could ship so much more cooler materials that people can actually take
home with them to spread the GNOME word.

And honestly, I've never been impressed with the GNOME box kit when
using it at CSUN conference.   Pieces were always missing and we always
had to do some reinstallation/reconfiguration to the laptop to get it to
work right.  Plus, the last time, I bought some decent speakers to go
with the Orca demonstration as the ones in the box from the previous
year could barely squeak.  :-)

It's impressive to have a box, but in the long run, I just didn't see
any real value from it.

If you want to spend the money on a really spiffed up kit, I would
instead advocate a) ship banners (probably just once and don't ask for
it back) and b) a large screen plasma tv so that your demonstrations
reach beyond just the person standing in front of the laptop/monitor.
Let the community bring their own laptops that are configured the way
they're used to.  

That's my two cents.  :-)

Bryen M Yunashko

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Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

[Bryen M Yunashko]

On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 10:13 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le lundi 06 février 2012, à 08:48 -0700, Stormy Peters a écrit :
> > I 100% support having a table cloth and a roll up self-standing banner in
> > both of the event boxes.
> 
> We should make sure the roll up self-standing banner can fit in the
> event boxes, though. I'm thinking it's too big for the newest event box,
> but that's just a guess.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Vincent
> 
> -- 
> Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.

A table cloth is likely to get dirty very easily.  People spilling their
coffee and whatnot.  It looks classy, sure, but certainly you'd have to
factor in the cost of dry cleaning afterward as I don't think those
silk-screened cloths should go in the standard washing machine.

Vinyl banner wraparound the front of a table is much easier to clean
(wipe and done.)

Bryen M Yunashko

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