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 ? -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]