Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Ken VanDine
I don't know where to start, but if I can help let me know. Lets get the ball rolling quickly, LWE is coming up real fast :) --Ken On 4/19/07, Patrick Wagstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken VanDine wrote: > > Perhaps we could sell shirts or hats... something i know i would pay for :) > > > >

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Patrick Wagstrom
Ken VanDine wrote: > Perhaps we could sell shirts or hats... something i know i would pay for :) > > How do we deal with the money and taxes? I'd like to second the idea of shirts and hats. Last September when I ran the GNOME booth for Ohio Linux Fest people were clamoring for GNOME related pa

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Ken VanDine
Perhaps we could sell shirts or hats... something i know i would pay for :) How do we deal with the money and taxes? --Ken On 4/19/07, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/19/07, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No objections from me. Selling them does have two or three bene

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 4/19/07, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 Yeah, people at LWE just tend to take swag without thinking

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Neary
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 m

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Luis Villa
On 4/19/07, Ken VanDine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why sell the CDs, just to recoup the costs? And to provide seed money for the next batch. People saw it as a simple way to donate to the project, I think. It was less sales and more like a New York museum, anyway- 'a requested donation' for the

Re: LWE stand organisation

2007-04-19 Thread Ken VanDine
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 t