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Re: [Debconf-team] Booting t-shirt organization



-=| 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.

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