Re: LWE stand organisation

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

No objections from me. Selling them does have two or three benefits, though:

1. People feel like they're supporting GNOME
2. People who pay for a LiveCD are more likely to use it
3. Recuping costs is good.

Cheers,
Dave.

Ken VanDine wrote:
> Why sell the CDs, just to recoup the costs?  rPath's marketing folks
> has offered to pay to have 1000 CDs made up, with the GNOME artwork
> for us to give away for free.  Only request is to include a small
> "built by rPath" type logo on it.  Any objections?  They are also the
> same folks paying my way to manage the GNOME booth :)
>
> --Ken
>
> On 4/14/07, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> > On 4/14/07, Ken VanDine <ken vandine org> wrote:
> > > rPath always has a booth, and we have noticed a major slowdown the
> > > past couple shows.  Not only Boston, by SF was slower too.  We will
> > > just hope this year is better :-D
> >
> > I was actually surprised to see you guys at the last one I went to.
> >
> > FWIW, I sold 123 of the liveCDs at $5/pop. There was a very slight
> > profit (about $200), which I think ended up getting used to buy a
> > round of beer at Summit.
> >
> > Luis
> >
> > > On 4/14/07, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> > > > [cc'ing marketing-list instead of board.]
> > > >
> > > > On 4/14/07, Ken VanDine <ken vandine org> wrote:
> > > > > I am very pleased to do it, I will email the marketing list to look
> > > > > for volunteers to help.  But if anyone here would be interested in
> > > > > helping or can help find volunteers, that would be great.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have details from previous LWEs?  Like number of
> > visitors
> > > > > to the booth?  How many LiveCDs were given out?  Anything else
> > useful?
> > > > In past years, several thousand booth visitors; I don't recall how
> > > > many liveCDs I sold two years ago, but 'a lot'- a couple hundred,
> > > > IIRC? I can try to look it up sometime later- not today, though.
> > > >
> > > > Note, though, that LWE is a wounded beast, AFAICT; floor traffic was
> > > > down substantially during the second year in Boston, and I imagine
> > the
> > > > same is true in San Fran. So my numbers may not be as valid anymore.
> > > >
> > > > Luis


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Dave Neary
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