On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, John Newbigin wrote:
Looks like we are going to linux.conf.au!
When ? When ?
From experience I know that for a good booth you need big posters, big screens and lots of things for your visitors to take. For linux you also need penguins, thats a given.
The big three I think are:
- Posters
- CD/DVDs
- Stickers
Right :) And:
- CentOS flag - CentOS shirts for the booth people
In the past I had the benefit of a marketing department who arranged all that for me but I guess this time I'll have to do some work.
Is there a recommended procedure for getting everything together? Is there money available for printing? I'll need to get things underway this week because next Monday is a holiday down here.
There is no budget (that I know of). It would be nice if we could set up a location from where we could ship all of these items. A logistics secretary would be nice :)
But before we can think of something like this, we have to produce new flyers, posters, CDs and stickers cheaply and get a budget together.
If we order these things online on-the-fly I think it will cost us much more than if we can dispatch it from one location ourselves.
PS Also, to increase the promo budget I think we need to have a transparant look at the income and the costs of the CentOS project. If we have a plan and a need for money I am sure that more people are willing to donate. Also if we can send out invoices for expensive CD-bundles, companies may actually be willing to buy tax-deductable wares as well.
We can improve a lot in these areas, but who is volunteering ?