Re: exhibition kits

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 03:06:34PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:29:10PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > > What I'd actually like to see if we can do is get some banners/posters
> > > > created that we can reuse at events. If you can get a cost on them, and
> > > > agree to manage their use, I think it can be done.
> > > 
> > > Yes, agreed.  We need some "exhibition kit" placed in several parts
> > > of the world.
> > > 
> > > Sorry if I sounded harsh but I'm really serious about this issue.
> > 
> > This is the type of "funding" I was refering to. Obviously I don't want
> > to start paying for boothes or we will be broke. Reusable items that we
> > retain are one thing. I'm not suggesting we start paying for returnables
> > like boothes, tables, etc.
> 
> I would heartily recommend putting together some kind of affordable
> "exhibition kit".  Every time I've seen a Debian booth (well, only
> twice, in the LWE in New York) it's been pretty pathetetic on the face
> of it.  It was fun, of course, putting faces to names that I've seen,
> but I think some effort should be made in terms of having a booth be a
> more visible less, uh, amateurish.
> 
> If there's any will to get this done, I might be able to hook folks up
> with some pro-bono designer types who have experience with such
> things...
> 
> A topic for debian-project ?

Very much so, let's start some context on this subject. It's one of the
goals I'd like to see reached.

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