Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
Bonjour, On 15.02.2012 02:24, Tobias Mueller wrote: I don't know the shipping costs, but Doree might (CCed). So an interesting question is, whether a PC with LCD panel and peripheral devices is more expensive than shipping the box forth and back. Let's assume the LCD Panel costs 75 Euros¹, the PC ~250 Euros² and the periphery 15 Euros³. Make the prints cost 100 Euros and add another 70 Euros for the overhead and we're at 500 Euros. Doree: How is that in relation to the shipping costs? Having the box doing a round trip costs ~180 Euros (126 GBP to European money is 150 Euros, plus 20% VAT makes 180). So we can have the box shipped two times forth and back before we spent more money than actually buying new stuff. I haven't really thought about it, but it seems as if it might make sense to not ship the box often but have a separate action kit instead. Especially for recurring events like FOSDEM and potentially LinuxTag. I guess it's up to the board to decide whether this is useful information and requires any further action. Cheers, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
On 28/02/12 13:25, Tobias Mueller wrote: hm*shrug* I.e. round trip to Berlin or Brussels. This would cost 126.82 GBP (exc. VAT at 20%) for a round trip to Berlin. Best regards, Dorée. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
Bonjour :) On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:40:32AM +, Dorée Carrier wrote: On 15/02/12 01:24, Tobias Mueller wrote: Doree: How is that in relation to the shipping costs? If you could give me a proposed sender location and final destination I can get an exact price for shipping for comparison. hm *shrug* I.e. round trip to Berlin or Brussels. Cheers, Tobi -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
On 15/02/12 01:24, Tobias Mueller wrote: Doree: How is that in relation to the shipping costs? If you could give me a proposed sender location and final destination I can get an exact price for shipping for comparison. Best regards, Dorée. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
Hey folks :) On 06.02.2012 16:28, Andre Klapper wrote: [..] but dumping what I remember [..] I created a space in https://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/FOSDEM/2012 and put already some lines that I think make good improvements next year. Please add your items, too. Cheers, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
Bonjour :) On 08.02.2012 22:52, Allan Day wrote: Is someone able to find out how much another box would cost to buy I don't know about that. But would be interesting to know. and transport? Do we know how many times a year the events box is used? Doree would know (CCed). Cheers, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
Heya, On 14.02.2012 10:49, Allan Day wrote: I'm also assuming that the t-shirts get transported on their own - how does that currently happen? I was able to bring to T-Shirts to Germany, potentially using them here for CeBIT and LinuxTag. I don't think shipping shirts has happened often. AFAIR were T-Shirts organised locally, i.e. GNOME-FR for FOSDEM or last time directly in Berlin. But I'm not the best one to ask. FTR: CeBIT is not happening due to the lack of people. How often are the projector and router used, for example? The route is handy for CeBIT and the projector for LinuxTag. Both things are likely not essential but worth the space. One probably doesn't need both items all the time, but the box is nicely packed and I imagine it'd be quite some effort to repack the box everytime before it's send off. [..] a second box might not be such a bad thing. Well, it wouldn't be too bad. But we'd need people to handle all that. And handling one box plus potentially other stuff like the T-shirts require a small group of people which take of that. And I don't see us having these many people handling i.e. FOSDEM, CeBIT or LinuxTag. I can't really speak for other events. We also might want to think about how we can organise the second box to keep transport costs low. Could it be passed between volunteers, for example? That's more or less what's happening right now. I took the box and the shirts privately, i.e. with no shipping costs involved. And while I could have taken another box, I doubt that others will be on other occasions. Let's think about this and next FOSDEM. Which Box contents did we use at the booth? Essentially the cash-box, a flatscreen, a tiny PC and peripheral devices such as a non Linux compatible webcam and wireless keyboard/mouse. Also banners and some printed materials. Am I missing anything? I don't know the shipping costs, but Doree might (CCed). So an interesting question is, whether a PC with LCD panel and peripheral devices is more expensive than shipping the box forth and back. Let's assume the LCD Panel costs 75 Euros¹, the PC ~250 Euros² and the periphery 15 Euros³. Make the prints cost 100 Euros and add another 70 Euros for the overhead and we're at 500 Euros. Doree: How is that in relation to the shipping costs? Cheers, Tobi 1: http://geizhals.at/de/?cat=monlcd19widesort=p 2: http://geizhals.at/de/?cat=sysnnxf=2534_Mini-PCsort=p 3: http://geizhals.at/de/?cat=kbdeskxf=602_kabellossort=p signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 02:24 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: The route is handy for CeBIT and the projector for LinuxTag. Both things are likely not essential but worth the space. One probably doesn't need both items all the time, but the box is nicely packed and I imagine it'd be quite some effort to repack the box everytime before it's send off. That assumes the box has a round-trip back to its storage location. But there are times when the box might be forwarded on to a next event from the previous event. That's happened at least a couple of times if I'm not mistaken. So, customizing the box contents per event isn't always realistic. Bryen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 02:20 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: Hey Dave :) On 09.02.2012 15:53, Dave Neary wrote: What did people think of them? Posters are awesome. But unfortunately quite unhandy, i.e. one has to take care to not fold them or to not destroy them with adhesive tape. Maybe instead of tape, include a box of Teacher's Putty. It's reusable and doesn't destroy the material. In fact some event venues ban use of tape, and only allow Putty instead. For last LinuxTag, I produced posters using PosteRazor and pdfposter. These pieces of software give you a PDF with DIN A4 sheets that you print and glue together to get your full sized poster. Quite some work, but dirt cheap (assuming you can print DIN A4 cheaply). Cheers, Tobi -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
Hi there, I helped man th booth at FOSDEM for much of the day on Saturday, and thought it went OK. The location for FOSDEM certainly left something to be desired, though that also applied for most of the others as well. I really don't think I'd have seen *any* of the booths if it weren't for wanting to find GNOME's on Saturday, though I also see why the put them out there - in the H-building it would have been *super* cramped!! As for the booth itself, a more interactive booth would be cool, though I'm not sure how to accomplish that easily and without major expenses. Another idea might be to print up 'special' GNOME people who are manning the booth or otherwise participating in the conference. That way we'd all be easily identifiable for anyone looking for info at the conference. Or do something else different/special to make ourselves easily identifiable as gnomies (I never did figure out what was up with the kilts debian, though it was entertaining and made them easy to pick out!!). The cloth GNOME 3 banner we had that was held up by tape on the window kept falling down and I've been trying to think of alternative ways to do it ever since.As I recall it had grommets so maybe we could throw a couple of suction cups w/ hooks on them in the box to stick to windows if that should occur again, or at least some stronger tape (duck/masking/etc). Different stickers with at least the word GNOME, and preferably gnome.orgor GNOME Foundation or something on them are needed. I like the foot logo, but for anyone who doesn't already know what GNOME is, its just a funny looking sticker. More 'stuff' in general - both free to sell would be good - what about different shirts, hats (winter hats with 'gnome.org' on the back and a foot logo on the front probably would have sold like mad, for example... I know *I* would have bought at least one just to wear there!!), etc. Also, even if we're not making much money off of some of these things, the cheaper we can sell them, the more we're likely *to* sell and thus get our name out there that much more, yk? As for shipping it around, all of the stuff that was there could not have possibly fit in 'the' event box as it was, and the bigger the box becomes the more unwieldly it becomes as well, so I don't think a new bigger box is the answer. How is the box currently moved around? Are we paying for shipping or are people simply checking it on their flights back and forth to different places, and then hauling it around from there? Is it too large to be checked as typical baggage? If thats the case, why not look into a large suitcase or two that could be easily checked as baggage? Emily On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, February 8, 2012 4:52 pm, Allan Day wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de 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? Is it practical to have two boxes per event? I thought it was already something of a pain to store and transport the one? (though I'm of course very excited by the idea of a better stand!) I guess if we were able to, we could do it as a primary and secondary box where we could use the secondary box if we had volunteers/resources to move and use two? Is that what you were thinking? karen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 07:40 -0500, Emily Gonyer wrote: As for shipping it around, all of the stuff that was there could not have possibly fit in 'the' event box as it was, and the bigger the box becomes the more unwieldly it becomes as well, so I don't think a new bigger box is the answer. How is the box currently moved around? Are we paying for shipping or are people simply checking it on their flights back and forth to different places, and then hauling it around from there? Is it too large to be checked as typical baggage? If thats the case, why not look into a large suitcase or two that could be easily checked as baggage? They're usually shipped. And the shipping isn't cheap. I don't have an actual cost of what it cost us to ship the GNOME box here in the US, but knowing shipping costs, it wasn't a few bucks. :-) As for taking it on a plane with you, it wouldn't resolve the cost of getting the box back to its destination storage location. You'd still have to ship it once you got back home. But even if this were an option, second-bag charges on airlines also negate this. As expensive as it is in many US airlines to add a second bag, its even more expensive in EU. I was once charged 100 Euros for a second bag in EU. (Yikes!) Overall, I simply don't find the box useful, as I mentioned in another post on this thread. There are better things to ship than what currently exists if we're going to spend all that money on shipping stuff. I'm in favor of more awesome booths because the GNOME booths I've seen thus far in the US have been quite dismal, but the box itself isn't going to solve that problem. Bryen M Yunashko -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hi, On 02/09/2012 01:40 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote: The cloth GNOME 3 banner we had that was held up by tape on the window kept falling down and I've been trying to think of alternative ways to do it ever since. Yes - we should definitely put things like a ball of string, blu-tack and strong sellotape into the box. As I recall it had grommets so maybe we could throw a couple of suction cups w/ hooks on them in the box to stick to windows if that should occur again, or at least some stronger tape (duck/masking/etc). What's a grommet? More 'stuff' in general - both free to sell would be good - what about different shirts, hats (winter hats with 'gnome.org http://gnome.org' on the back and a foot logo on the front probably would have sold like mad, for example... I had hoped that the posters I brought would have a bigger impact - I think they are gorgeous and thought we might be able to have a give-away with them - especially since they were quite expensive to print! What did people think of them? Is printing posters something we should look into for future conferences? If we do, we definitely will need to take better care of them! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 15:53 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: I had hoped that the posters I brought would have a bigger impact - I think they are gorgeous and thought we might be able to have a give-away with them - especially since they were quite expensive to print! What did people think of them? Is printing posters something we should look into for future conferences? If we do, we definitely will need to take better care of them! Cheers, Dave. Posters are definitely beaucoup bucks to print. I have yet to find a cheap way to print them and standard movie-size posters are 24x36 Inch. (Forgive me to those of you, for my being metric-challenged.) My alternative was to use 11x17 inch prints. Not as awesome, for sure, but definitely economical by comparison. Overnightprints.com, for example, will do 50 for about $91. And cheaper with a higher print order. And if you use them regularly, you'll quickly move into VIP pricing which can be up to 50% even more savings on printing. We could have multiple images printed up (say 5?) and plaster them all over the booth (and venue) and not even worry about getting them back (because in all likelyhood any paper-based printing will get mangled quickly.) Bryen -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
- Mensaje original - De: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com Para: GNOME Marketing List marketing-list@gnome.org CC: Enviado: Lunes 6 de febrero de 2012 16:05 Asunto: GNOME FOSDEM Stand [...] The other thing I thought was that the stand would be better if we had more in the way of merchandise (pens, mugs, keyrings, usb sticks, a greater range of stickers, etc etc). We also need new banners (some of which are looking like they have seen better days) and a big GNOME tablecloth (I was also envious of the roll-up vertical banners that the other stands had). Hi Allan et al, We discussed about a tablecoth in the past [1] and even we have a design: http://yuliansu.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/gnome-table-cloth.png So I think we can go ahead with a tablecloth and a roll-up vertical banner if people still agree. Cheers, -- Juanjo Marin [1] thread in marketing list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-July/msg00018.html -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org 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. That's what I was thinking too. :) Same goes for any additional merchanise we want to include. I'm sure there's room for stickers, but what about mugs or even USB sticks? Could whoever has the box check to see how much space there is? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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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. 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 :-/ Cheers, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
Heya :) On 07.02.2012 10:13, Vincent Untz wrote: I'm thinking it's too big for the newest event box, but that's just a guess. Well, I sorted that out back in the day: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-July/msg00020.html So I don't think a table cloth will fit in the current box and we need other methods of transport for (at least) the cloth. Cheers, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 03:05:40PM +, Allan Day wrote: Thanks to everyone who staffed the GNOME stand at FOSDEM! It was great to have so many enthusiastic volunteers. If you were there - how did you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time? The information leaflets are in black and white; doesn't look nice. I can print a few hundred of those in colour and send them to whomever has the event box. ^^ send me a (link to a) PDF and I'll print We should always sell nice t-shirts IMO. The green ones: I don't really like. Stickers are awesome. We should always ensure to say they they are free. The webcam was broken under the Fedora installation Didn't get many questions, though was way less at stand than previous years. Ideally we should stand at the stand, not sit down. At least one demo machine should continuously show videos. Maybe we should have a few videos on ftp.gnome.org, then ensure that they're always on the machine itself. This avoids any network issues (which you usually have aside from FOSDEM :P). -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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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: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/flyer-for-conferences Feel free to add or thoughts, or better yet: Work on it ;-) Cheers, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de 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: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/flyer-for-conferences 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 12:01:55PM +0100, 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: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/flyer-for-conferences Feel free to add or thoughts, or better yet: Work on it ;-) We had some folded stuff, no? Was that outdated info? -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
GNOME FOSDEM Stand
Hi all, Thanks to everyone who staffed the GNOME stand at FOSDEM! It was great to have so many enthusiastic volunteers. If you were there - how did you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time? I thought our visual presence was pretty good, and the videos we showed on the demo machine were good. It was also really great to have information posted up about upcoming GNOME talks - that was a great idea. As was brought up on the list recently, I also thought it would be good to organise the stand around a more engaging activity. Friends of GNOME sign up was one idea there. Technical demonstrations was another. We could also do things like a GNOME Love/Hate board or a suggestions box or even a game that people can play at the stand. Any other ideas? The other thing I thought was that the stand would be better if we had more in the way of merchandise (pens, mugs, keyrings, usb sticks, a greater range of stickers, etc etc). We also need new banners (some of which are looking like they have seen better days) and a big GNOME tablecloth (I was also envious of the roll-up vertical banners that the other stands had). Do we know if there is room in the box for those things? Who has the box at the moment? Perhaps we could organise for it to be restocked? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Dear Allan, On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 15:05 +, Allan Day wrote: how did you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time? I didn't spend much time behind the stand (thanks to everybody else who helped and did much much more work!) but dumping what I remember from when I wasn't drunk or slacking or both: * I was asked twice if the POSTERS (official desktop of happy people) are available but did not know the wiki URL by heart. For the next print it should be written on them in a small font in a dark corner. * Tobias put up some of our available t-shirts but we were missing a ROPE/TAPE so we ended up using two network cables to get them onto the wall. It had a geeky charme so maybe we should not fix this. * The LEAFLET includes a screenshot of GNOME 2 (and doesn't look great if they are just black and white photocopies). * Tobias wants one of these STAND-UP displays that are a poster in 120x200cm and can be rolled up. I have no idea what it's called and no idea yet what to put onto it. * I sometimes wonder (for geeky audiences) if we should have a how-to help list handy, like some (real) examples for tasks where we need help (e.g. application $foo needs updated documentation or $bar's maintainer is AWOL and you could take over). Might not make us look good though, so maybe just a printed summary of the Getting involved page showing that there are many areas where people can contribute and that you don't need to be a coder. OUTREACH. * Not Fosdem specific: The STICKERS with the foot logo don't help spreading the word to people who do not know what the logo stands for. If we had stickers with a gnome.org URL on them our street teams could put them onto every traffic light and toilet door of those hip clubs and schools where the cool kids go that should really check out our project. Of course our street teams should only do this in countries where wild advertising is legal(TM)! Cheers, andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
I 100% support having a table cloth and a roll up self-standing banner in both of the event boxes. Stormy On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Thanks to everyone who staffed the GNOME stand at FOSDEM! It was great to have so many enthusiastic volunteers. If you were there - how did you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time? I thought our visual presence was pretty good, and the videos we showed on the demo machine were good. It was also really great to have information posted up about upcoming GNOME talks - that was a great idea. As was brought up on the list recently, I also thought it would be good to organise the stand around a more engaging activity. Friends of GNOME sign up was one idea there. Technical demonstrations was another. We could also do things like a GNOME Love/Hate board or a suggestions box or even a game that people can play at the stand. Any other ideas? The other thing I thought was that the stand would be better if we had more in the way of merchandise (pens, mugs, keyrings, usb sticks, a greater range of stickers, etc etc). We also need new banners (some of which are looking like they have seen better days) and a big GNOME tablecloth (I was also envious of the roll-up vertical banners that the other stands had). Do we know if there is room in the box for those things? Who has the box at the moment? Perhaps we could organise for it to be restocked? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand
And I'll wallpaper Colorado with those stickers :) On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote: I 100% support having a table cloth and a roll up self-standing banner in both of the event boxes. Stormy On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Thanks to everyone who staffed the GNOME stand at FOSDEM! It was great to have so many enthusiastic volunteers. If you were there - how did you think the stand worked, and what could we improve for next time? I thought our visual presence was pretty good, and the videos we showed on the demo machine were good. It was also really great to have information posted up about upcoming GNOME talks - that was a great idea. As was brought up on the list recently, I also thought it would be good to organise the stand around a more engaging activity. Friends of GNOME sign up was one idea there. Technical demonstrations was another. We could also do things like a GNOME Love/Hate board or a suggestions box or even a game that people can play at the stand. Any other ideas? The other thing I thought was that the stand would be better if we had more in the way of merchandise (pens, mugs, keyrings, usb sticks, a greater range of stickers, etc etc). We also need new banners (some of which are looking like they have seen better days) and a big GNOME tablecloth (I was also envious of the roll-up vertical banners that the other stands had). Do we know if there is room in the box for those things? Who has the box at the moment? Perhaps we could organise for it to be restocked? Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
