From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OxgXS-0004mB-Fw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:36:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DC10E0AE3; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lordvan.com (lordvan.com [213.239.219.131]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E6BE0B1A for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from secure.lordvan.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lordvan.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C697117800F for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:35:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:35:41 +0200 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Thomas Raschbacher Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FOSDEM 2011 Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: PHPMailer (phpmailer.codeworxtech.com) [version 2.1] X-Mailer: FeLaMiMail In-Reply-To: <4C7B5E64.6010305@salomon.at> Organization: Gentoo Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: 08a44f47-a2ba-43f3-bd24-0408a49279ee X-Archives-Hash: 9279fa2813f690d6620c3edb12a7f48d hi. after already posting in -core someone pointed me to this thread ;) 1) I am going to be at FOSDEM (Flights booked still looking into some = cheap B&B for a night or sth for me and a friend who's coming too) 2) I might still have a high quality print of the Gentoo logo from Linuxday(.at) in 2003 where I was (pretty much by myself unfortunately) doing a talk and a small booth 3) back then I handed out more than 30odd cds for sure .. but I guess nowadays a lot more people have fast internet connections 4) If there's gonna be a booth i can help out a bit but I'll want to look around a bit more as well since it's gonna be my first FOSDEM and we're = only gonna be there some time saturday morning and fly back sunday evening. Regards ----------------original message----------------- From: "Markus Duft" markus.duft@salomon.at To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org CC: rbu@gentoo.org, sping@gentoo.org, hollow@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:31:48 +0200 ------------------------------------------------- =20 =20 > On 08/27/2010 04:26 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >> On 26-08-2010 12:07, Alex Legler wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:01:27 +0200, Markus Duft >>> markus.duft@salomon.at wrote: >>=20 >>>> booth registration is not yet open, i will have an eye on this too... >>>> (is there any interest in it anyway? who could come up with flyers, >>>> cds, etc.?) >>=20 >> Any attempt to get a booth should be preceded by a serious discussion >> about what will be handed at the booth and who will be responsible to >> ensure the merchandise and promotion tools (banner?) are present. We >> should not forget that the experience in some of the former events >> wasn't "stellar". >=20 > yeah, right :) >=20 > i once worked in an advertising agency, where i can possibly get rather > good prices to print banners, flyers, etc. i just need them in digital > form. however transportation by plane is not so easy, if it's a lot. >=20 > would it be an option to send them to somebody whos going by > train/car/whatever? (grobian?) >=20 >>=20 >>> The Gentoo e.V. has printed flyers a year ago. There should be plenty >>> left, especially in English. Talk to rbu, sping or hollow. Also, >>> there's other stuff like T-Shirts, see >>> https://www.gentoo-ev.org/wiki/Events for a few pictures. >=20 > rbu, sping, hollow: any comments? :) will any of you be there? is there > some stuff left over we can use? >=20 >>=20 >>> As for CDs, we've used the 10.1 LiveDVDs, simply burned to DVD-R, but >>> with a nice printed label. You can expect to hand out at least 35 per >>> day (we gave them to people for free after a short chat). >>=20 >> It would be great if we could get a LiveDVD release around January. It >> isn't simple and last year we weren't able to get it done by FOSDEM - = we >> being mostly likewhoa. Having more people help testing and fixing >> packages would help. >> About CDs per day, I'm pretty sure we handed more than 35 on FOSDEM2009 >> and they weren't "pretty". >=20 > if we get some funds for cds and ink from the foundaiton, i can both > burn and prettify (i.e. print directly on them). i guess 100 would be a > good number for the start? >=20 > i will request funds as soon as we've come up with a list of things we > need. (so waiting for rbu/sping/hollow to respond in the first place = now). >=20 > markus >=20 >>=20 >=20 >=20