Hi all,
FOSDEM Schedule. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have send in the final schedule to the FOSDEM organisation. The schedule is less tense, mostly because Fedora only has a five talks. This means we have a Lunch break and time to break down the booth and clean the devroom.
pre-FOSDEM on Friday. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Now, we proposed to have a pre-FOSDEM on Friday, so we could sit together and discuss some CentOS topics in 'private'. I want to book the Monk for this on friday-noon and friday-afternoon, but nobody has registered their name yet on the wiki. If you plan to be there, please put that in the wiki !
The Beer-event is for the first time in a different venue, with more space and more beer, so we definitely plan to go there this year without disappointements. We still need a good place to have dinner on Friday (proposals are welcome).
Promo stuff. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ We still have sufficient flyers from last year and I reordered business cards. If it is still feasible, it would be nice to have stickers and better posters. Lance could have posters printed, but I think the only part missing is the design ! Who can do this ?
For stickers I am going to look today to see if I can order something online.
Lunch and dinner during FOSDEM. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It would also be nice to have a plan on Saturday evening for dinner (and maybe on Sunday evening for those heading home later) and something to eat during lunch time both days. Maybe we could just buy enough sandwiches and make our own sandwiches for lunch ? Anyone want to organise this ?
Since we have the devroom free during lunch on Sunday we could eat together in the devroom.
Booth. ^^^^^^ Afaik, we don't have anything to show at the booth. If we could do the same as last year that would be great, but who is bringing a big screen and a computer system ?
Is there something we could improve compared to last year wrt. the booth ?
Only 2 weeks to go, so we have to hurry !
Dag Wieers wrote:
Promo stuff. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ We still have sufficient flyers from last year and I reordered business cards. If it is still feasible, it would be nice to have stickers and better posters.
I still need to take some of that stuff then with met to Germany - so I hope we really do have enough of that :)
Lance could have posters printed, but I think the only part missing is the design ! Who can do this ?
Has anyone (except me) looked at the design John put in the Wiki?
http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/MarketingMaterial - it looks much better than what we had before.
Cheers,
Ralph
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
Promo stuff. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ We still have sufficient flyers from last year and I reordered business cards. If it is still feasible, it would be nice to have stickers and better posters.
I still need to take some of that stuff then with met to Germany - so I hope we really do have enough of that :)
Fingers crossed.
Lance could have posters printed, but I think the only part missing is the design ! Who can do this ?
Has anyone (except me) looked at the design John put in the Wiki?
http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/MarketingMaterial - it looks much better than what we had before.
If you mean the new logo and poster from Ioana Dulgheru, I like that new logo ! Comes out much better, I am going to change the design for the business cards based on that. We should probably put those logos on the wiki as well.
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
Promo stuff. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ We still have sufficient flyers from last year and I reordered business cards. If it is still feasible, it would be nice to have stickers and better posters.
I still need to take some of that stuff then with met to Germany - so I hope we really do have enough of that :)
Fingers crossed.
Lance could have posters printed, but I think the only part missing is the design ! Who can do this ?
Has anyone (except me) looked at the design John put in the Wiki?
http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/MarketingMaterial - it looks much better than what we had before.
If you mean the new logo and poster from Ioana Dulgheru, I like that new logo ! Comes out much better, I am going to change the design for the business cards based on that. We should probably put those logos on the wiki as well.
Sorry, apparently they are made by Nicu Bunu. I guess I followed the wrong link :-/
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
Promo stuff. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ We still have sufficient flyers from last year and I reordered business cards. If it is still feasible, it would be nice to have stickers
do you mean PC badges or stickers ??
Lance could have posters printed, but I think the only part missing is the design ! Who can do this ?
Has anyone (except me) looked at the design John put in the Wiki?
http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/MarketingMaterial - it looks much better than what we had before.
Sorry - disagree - to me that poster is a mess.
And it is not the CentOS Logo !!
Please lets keep some corporate identity :)
I believe seanos from irc is already printing that poster :(
Regards Lance
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Lance Davis wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
Promo stuff. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ We still have sufficient flyers from last year and I reordered business cards. If it is still feasible, it would be nice to have stickers
do you mean PC badges or stickers ??
Stickers. The PC badges were quite expensive if I remember correctly.
Lance could have posters printed, but I think the only part missing is the design ! Who can do this ?
Has anyone (except me) looked at the design John put in the Wiki?
http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/MarketingMaterial - it looks much better than what we had before.
Sorry - disagree - to me that poster is a mess.
And it is not the CentOS Logo !!
Hmm, last years poster had a another 3D logo which wasn't the 'official' CentOS logo either. If that is not the CentOS logo, do you mean people can use that without approval ? :-)
Please lets keep some corporate identity :)
I believe seanos from irc is already printing that poster :(
Ok.
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Lance Davis wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
Promo stuff. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ We still have sufficient flyers from last year and I reordered business cards. If it is still feasible, it would be nice to have stickers
do you mean PC badges or stickers ??
Stickers. The PC badges were quite expensive if I remember correctly.
ah - ok
Has anyone (except me) looked at the design John put in the Wiki?
http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/MarketingMaterial - it looks much better than what we had before.
Sorry - disagree - to me that poster is a mess.
And it is not the CentOS Logo !!
Hmm, last years poster had a another 3D logo which wasn't the 'official' CentOS logo either. If that is not the CentOS logo, do you mean people can use that without approval ? :-)
At least that is the CentOS logo in 3d isnt it ??
Anyway - it seems my machine completely misrendered the image and it isnt as bad as I thought it was :)
Regards Lance
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Lance Davis lance@uklinux.net wrote:
I believe seanos from irc is already printing that poster :(
Not done so yet. I'll hold off till get confirmation of the design then.
Seán
Seán O Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Lance Davis lance@uklinux.net wrote:
I believe seanos from irc is already printing that poster :(
Not done so yet. I'll hold off till get confirmation of the design then.
HRM!
"Official Confirmers", please step up!
IMNSHO that looks much better than any of the posters we had last year. So I'd say "Yes, print it". Maybe someone else might want to chime in?
Ah yes, I'd need one for the Chemnitzer Linuxtage also (which then could be taken to Linuxtag 2008 in Berlin).
Cheers,
Ralph
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Seán O Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Lance Davis lance@uklinux.net wrote:
I believe seanos from irc is already printing that poster :(
Not done so yet. I'll hold off till get confirmation of the design then.
HRM!
"Official Confirmers", please step up!
IMNSHO that looks much better than any of the posters we had last year. So I'd say "Yes, print it". Maybe someone else might want to chime in?
Ah yes, I'd need one for the Chemnitzer Linuxtage also (which then could be taken to Linuxtag 2008 in Berlin).
Yes, I would say print the one from the wiki instead of the one we used last year.
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 13:30 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Seán O Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Lance Davis lance@uklinux.net wrote:
I believe seanos from irc is already printing that poster :(
Not done so yet. I'll hold off till get confirmation of the design then.
HRM!
"Official Confirmers", please step up!
IMNSHO that looks much better than any of the posters we had last year. So I'd say "Yes, print it". Maybe someone else might want to chime in?
Ah yes, I'd need one for the Chemnitzer Linuxtage also (which then could be taken to Linuxtag 2008 in Berlin).
Yes, I would say print the one from the wiki instead of the one we used last year.
+1
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Seán O Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Lance Davis lance@uklinux.net wrote:
I believe seanos from irc is already printing that poster :(
Not done so yet. I'll hold off till get confirmation of the design then.
HRM!
"Official Confirmers", please step up!
IMNSHO that looks much better than any of the posters we had last year. So I'd say "Yes, print it". Maybe someone else might want to chime in?
I am not happy yet with the logo - and have asked Geoff to get pdf's of the posters we used last year so that I can add them to the wiki for comparison.
Also - that poster has zero information on it - is that what you want ??
Lance
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Lance Davis wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Seán O Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Lance Davis lance@uklinux.net wrote:
I believe seanos from irc is already printing that poster :(
Not done so yet. I'll hold off till get confirmation of the design then.
HRM!
"Official Confirmers", please step up!
IMNSHO that looks much better than any of the posters we had last year. So I'd say "Yes, print it". Maybe someone else might want to chime in?
I am not happy yet with the logo - and have asked Geoff to get pdf's of the posters we used last year so that I can add them to the wiki for comparison.
Also - that poster has zero information on it - is that what you want ??
No, it can certainly be better, and hopefully we can create glossy posters and make them so cool that we can sell them. But with less than 10 days to go I don't think we can be very picky.
In fact, I would prefer 2 kind of posters. One being an attention grabber that is cool and something that people want to have at home. And the other one being an informative poster that is useful so people that walk by get the message without needing to address someone (which sometimes people do not do by themselves).
Both can help people to come and talk to us, but the second poster gives away the message even if they don't.
However, FOSDEM is not the typical tradeshow so I am not that concerned.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Lance Davis wrote:
I am not happy yet with the logo - and have asked Geoff to get pdf's of the posters we used last year so that I can add them to the wiki for comparison.
OK - I have added them to the wiki - together with artwork in the 'new' poster style using the previous CentOS 3D logo ...
Also - that poster has zero information on it - is that what you want ??
No, it can certainly be better, and hopefully we can create glossy posters and make them so cool that we can sell them. But with less than 10 days to go I don't think we can be very picky.
IMHO people wont buy them - but YMMV
If anyone is really good at posters artwork then I am sure we can get them printed - we still have an offer of printing sponsorship , but I dont know what timescales they are working to.
Do you have a cost for bulk printing posters ??
In fact, I would prefer 2 kind of posters. One being an attention grabber that is cool and something that people want to have at home. And the other one being an informative poster that is useful so people that walk by get the message without needing to address someone (which sometimes people do not do by themselves).
Both can help people to come and talk to us, but the second poster gives away the message even if they don't.
We did have posters at the last linux world expo in London with info on them - shall I find the artwork and upload it to the wiki ??
It would not take that long to finalise artwork if you can agree content - probably something loosely based on the flyer we have would be good ?? :)
Regards Lance
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Lance Davis wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Lance Davis wrote:
I am not happy yet with the logo - and have asked Geoff to get pdf's of the posters we used last year so that I can add them to the wiki for comparison.
OK - I have added them to the wiki - together with artwork in the 'new' poster style using the previous CentOS 3D logo ...
Also - that poster has zero information on it - is that what you want ??
No, it can certainly be better, and hopefully we can create glossy posters and make them so cool that we can sell them. But with less than 10 days to go I don't think we can be very picky.
IMHO people wont buy them - but YMMV
Depends on the price and the poster, I am sure.
If anyone is really good at posters artwork then I am sure we can get them printed - we still have an offer of printing sponsorship , but I dont know what timescales they are working to.
Do you have a cost for bulk printing posters ??
Once upon a time we discussed this with prices and everything. It must be somewhere in the IRC logs of the meeting.
In fact, I would prefer 2 kind of posters. One being an attention grabber that is cool and something that people want to have at home. And the other one being an informative poster that is useful so people that walk by get the message without needing to address someone (which sometimes people do not do by themselves).
Both can help people to come and talk to us, but the second poster gives away the message even if they don't.
We did have posters at the last linux world expo in London with info on them - shall I find the artwork and upload it to the wiki ??
Please do !
It would not take that long to finalise artwork if you can agree content - probably something loosely based on the flyer we have would be good ?? :)
The problem is to agree both on the content and the artwork in the limited timeframe. (Without being too pessimistic)
So whatever we have is fine by me. But if we have 2 designs of which already 3 persons opted for one design today, I am not sure why we are wasting more time and risking not having anything at all.
That is my biggest concern atm.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:
So whatever we have is fine by me. But if we have 2 designs of which already 3 persons opted for one design today, I am not sure why we are wasting more time and risking not having anything at all.
I am concerned to maintain the brand identity of the CentOS logo - and the one on the proposed poster seems to be different to me in that it has extra white lines around the arrows, that turn the into boxes rotated by 45 degrees, which dont appear in the original logo at least when printed on a white background.
In my view it is the arrows that are the most important part of the logo and they are detracted from by the white outline.
The 3d logo we have used previously and which is on the poster I uploaded is the CentOS logo unchanged but given depth ,perspective and shading.
Sean: when is your deadline for printing ???
Regards Lance
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:48:27 +0000 (GMT) Lance Davis lance@centos.org wrote:
Sean: when is your deadline for printing ???
Preferably, early next week. I may be able to delay until mid-week, at the latest.
Seán
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Seán O Sullivan wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:48:27 +0000 (GMT) Lance Davis lance@centos.org wrote:
Sean: when is your deadline for printing ???
Preferably, early next week. I may be able to delay until mid-week, at the latest.
Seán
Sean,
thanks again for the posters. They look definitely better than the ones we used last year ... It was also a pleasure to see you .. hope that it was not the last one ;-)
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