The local team can handle this, there's going to be more of us beginning July and we're going to have more time on our hands..
But we need to figure out what kind of goods we could give away if we decide to do it..
On Apr 15, 2011 5:32 PM, "Damyan Ivanov" <
dmn@debian.org> wrote:
> -=| Steve McIntyre, Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:35:09PM +0100 |=-
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:19:13PM +0100, Natalie Mayer-Hutchings wrote:
>> >On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:18:52AM +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
>> >
>> >> Besides tshirts, I was also thinking about having pens, rubber braclets, key
>> >> chains and so on, whag do you thibk about that one?
>> >
>> >That's not really top-priority necessary. Maybe if there's money left over
>> >at the end, but I personally am not really in favour of huge amounts of
>> >extra swag.
>>
>> Agreed. Two points:
>>
>> * It's often the kind of stuff that might be given away by the
>> sponsors
>> * It's often the kind of stuff that just ends up being dumped
>
> So in order to overcome these cons, any additional gifts must be worth
> taking home, i.e. really good. This leads to two new cons: the goods
> won't be cheap, and someone has to drive the process locally (finding
> quotes, choosing raw pens/keychains/etc find a printer, transport).
>
> I personally would like a good debconf gear that I can use and show
> around (like the t-shirts, which were great so far, thanks!). I don't
> worry much about the extra money, as the bufget.ods file looks pretty
> encouraging. However the time/effort component bothers me. Are there
> local people who can handle this?
>
> Just to avoid misunderstanding, I don't say we go on and do it at any
> cost. I want to consider the possibility in a couple of weeks when we
> have increased the amount of sponsorship money.
>
> Last point, good DebConf gear in sponsor bags would be nice to the
> sponsors.