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Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year (Mathias Friman)

by Frederic Muller

Dear Arthur, When you mention banner what do you have in mind? Graphically designed banner, physical piece of clothe banner, or something else? What size would you need as well? Thanks Fred Arthur Simiyu wrote: > > Dear all, > > > We've been starting to prepare for SFD'09 and we would like to > know if > > there is anything that we could add/replace in the schwags we're > sending > > out that could be more helpful for your team to prepare the event this > > year. We of course do have a limited budget, but it would be nice to get > > some feedback about how to possibly improve our support. > > > So I hope to get a lot of feedbacks from the 600 team leaders and their > > support team who made SFD '08 happen! > Hi, > If its possible could you include the large SFD banner, something for > the venue > Thanks :) > > Simiyu >

Feb. 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year

by Frederic Muller

Dear Mathias, I totally understand. In fact in China we have the same problem where everything need to be localized. So T-shirts, CDs and the content selected by SFI and its community gives us directions on what to do and select. We have a page on the SFD wiki where all the marketing and T-shirt files are aggregated in SVG format - our own and other teams ones. I am not directly involve in the design of logos and T-shirt but I need them early enough to be able to print and ship on time. jmC8 is and we're supposed to coordinate that effort. What's your deadline? When would you actually need those to be available? Thanks Fred Mathias Friman wrote: > Since we do a lot of marketing on the web, one thing that would be nice > is the new SFD'09 logo. Couldn't take more than an hour to do a remake > on the '08 one.. :) Preferrably in SVG format so it can be fitted to any > physical size. This is definately priority number one. > > Since we in Sweden (at least to some part) try to coordinate everything > on a local level, we usually do our own swedish marketing material. That's > why it would'a been awsome to get t-shirt-logos and stuff so that we can > hunt our own sponsors for printing t-shirts and posters. > > However, I don't know how much responsability and control you are > willing to delegate to local groups. :) > > Kindest regards, > Mathias > SFD Sweden > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Feb. 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Open source community members in Hobart, Tasmania

by Frederic Muller

Dear Steve, Best way to find out would be to look on our wiki at http://softwarefreedomday.org. It's classified by continents, countries, regions and cities. If you find no team in Tasmania then it's probably a good time to start one. note: I do get the same amount of spam and hate it. We're trying to workout something. Fred Steve Olive wrote: > Hi, > > A bit of a strange request ;-) but one of my colleagues has moved from > Bathurst NSW to Hobart Tasmania. He has helped me with Software Freedom > Day for that last 3 years and wanted to get involved in Hobart but isn't > sure who to contact. Is there a Software Freedom Day group in Hobart? > > If so, could someone or everyone in SFD Hobart please contact me off > list so I can pass on contact details? > > I'd post his contact details, but I use this email address which is the > only email account on this mail server, for one thing, subscribing to > the SFD Discuss list but I receive nearly 300 spam emails a week :( > >

Feb. 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year

by Frederic Muller

Dear David, We didn't open registrations for 2009. When this is open the only way to make you we have the proper address is by typing the proper address yourself... There was little ways to update things last year. You can always email us if you have a doubt later. Fred David Thomas wrote: > I have a team setup How do we make sure you have the proper mailing > address? > > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 20:47 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> We've been starting to prepare for SFD'09 and we would like to know if >> there is anything that we could add/replace in the schwags we're sending >> out that could be more helpful for your team to prepare the event this >> year. We of course do have a limited budget, but it would be nice to get >> some feedback about how to possibly improve our support. >> >> So I hope to get a lot of feedbacks from the 600 team leaders and their >> support team who made SFD '08 happen! >> >> Looking forward to it. >> >> Fred >> SFI Vice President >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Feb. 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year

by Frederic Muller

Thilo, Lots of suggestion and some which requires long explanations I think. Team members count and potential size is impossible to verify for us before, during and after the event. The only fair thing we can do is send the same amount to everyone. Doing customized packaging is probably for professional (money making professional) organizations but not something for SFI. We are all volunteers like you and packaging all those, getting the address right, hand writing each and every phone number (plus getting the right number for team for forget half of the digits) is already a huge task. That probably addresses you point 1 and You should wear those T-shirt on top of your clothes and not under. It's a fun event where you do promotion. What's the value of hiding the T-shirt? Good point on the additional DVD marketing content. We tried to do that last year but unfortunately could not deliver on time. Hopefully we'll do better this year. Again authoring a DVD takes time and expertise (if you want it to look professional). I know our SFD video in 2007 took over a month to be made (a 5 minutes movie)... But yes we should start and improve over the years anyway. SFD is always at the same date: 3rd Saturday of September. This year will be a Saturday 19th. Even if it's not on the site the information has been sent out to the mailing list and we probably need to better advertise. The website system is going to be reviewed this year. We might change our wiki and a few other things to provide a better experience to everyone. At least that's the plan. I hope this clarifies the date issue with you, and hopefully the new system won't be hard on your power consumption ;-) Thanks a lot. Fred Thilo Pfennig wrote: > I suggest the following: > > If teams register it should be essential to add the number of team > members and the potential size. > > I would start to deliver different packages. It does not make sense to > ship the same ammount to a 30 people event as well as to a 600 people event. > > I also would suggest that teams can request different amounts of stuff > per se. > > In our case T-Shirts werent that helpful because it is quite cold in > northern germany in September (about 14-15 degrees centigrade). So one > would wear that under other clothes. > > I would suggest to provide a CD or DVD that has stuff for presentations > (open source movies, statistics, images, music, lectures ...). Otherwise > people need to collect all that data. Maybe also provide some OpenOffice > documents for printing out SFD marketing stuff. Maybe also provide some > Vcards to contact SFD organizers - so alltogether a good mix. > > > BTW I suggest to already now bringt 2009 content and day to > http://softwarefreedomday.org/ - In Kiel we have the problem that as > well as last year another open source event now already chose October - > so information about the date needs to be available more than just a few > months before september. > > BTW2. I managed to get the surge protection for the wiki activated. > maybe your settings a re a bit too strong. > > regards, > thilo > > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Feb. 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year

by Frederic Muller

Hi Alexjan, We used the balloons for decorations here in Beijing and people tend to like them. Indoor you can 'scratch' them again your sweater and they will 'stick' on the ceiling... Save you the helium tank ;-) More CDs will depends on distributions willing to sponsor and step in. I guess Sun might do that this year with OpenSolaris but shipping CDs is heavy and costly. Ubuntu was paying for all this and we'll see what we can get this year. So yes we'd like to be able to send our more CDs with more distributions, but I cannot guarantee anything yet. Another usage of those CDs (including the OpenDisk) is for people with no, or poor Internet access to be able to duplicate them and distribute. So definitely more choice is good. Bigger quantity let's see... Thanks a lot. Fred Alexjan Carraturo wrote: > > > Hi Fred > Italy Speaking.... > > We are preparing DFD too. > > So, I think that the pack need only little change. T-shirt was all > right, but i think that you have to increase the number. > Baloon are useless. In the 08 we was in a High school of more of 1000 > student and are all to old for baloon. Need more CD's, and not only > Ubuntu (that is useful and important to have) > > >

Feb. 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year

by Frederic Muller

Hi Edgar, Thanks for the feedback. Posters have been talked about, so we're glad some teams believe it's could be helpful. more about T-shirts in following emails. Fred Edgar Hoffmann wrote: > Hello. > Germany speaking... ;-) > > In our case we could have dispensed the balloons. > As we hadn't an event inside but a little booth there was no need for > it. > We also are going to celebrate DFD this year, it might be better to > have two or three posters (A2 or so) to bring it on some windows. > Last year we did this posters ourselves. > In my opinion the CDs could be only for download and copying locally. > Maybe then there is a chance to get some more T-Shirts which were really > loved by the team members and the customers. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Greetings from Offenburg Germany > > Edgar "Fast Edi" Hoffmann > > Am Freitag, den 13.02.2009, 20:47 +0800 schrieb Frederic Muller: > >> Dear all, >> >> We've been starting to prepare for SFD'09 and we would like to know if >> there is anything that we could add/replace in the schwags we're sending >> out that could be more helpful for your team to prepare the event this >> year. We of course do have a limited budget, but it would be nice to get >> some feedback about how to possibly improve our support. >> >> So I hope to get a lot of feedbacks from the 600 team leaders and their >> support team who made SFD '08 happen! >> >> Looking forward to it. >> >> Fred >> SFI Vice President >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SFD-discuss mailing list >> SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org >> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >> > Durchbruch: Es bootete beim Ersten Versuch. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Feb. 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year (Mathias Friman)

by Arthur Simiyu

> Dear all, > We've been starting to prepare for SFD'09 and we would like to know if > there is anything that we could add/replace in the schwags we're sending > out that could be more helpful for your team to prepare the event this > year. We of course do have a limited budget, but it would be nice to get > some feedback about how to possibly improve our support. > So I hope to get a lot of feedbacks from the 600 team leaders and their > support team who made SFD '08 happen!Hi, If its possible could you include the large SFD banner, something for the venue Thanks :) Simiyu Since we do a lot of marketing on the web, one thing that would be nice is the new SFD'09 logo. Couldn't take more than an hour to do a remake on the '08 one.. :) Preferrably in SVG format so it can be fitted to any physical size. This is definately priority number one. Since we in Sweden (at least to some part) try to coordinate everything on a local level, we usually do our own swedish marketing material. That's why it would'a been awsome to get t-shirt-logos and stuff so that we can hunt our own sponsors for printing t-shirts and posters. However, I don't know how much responsability and control you are willing to delegate to local groups. :) Kindest regards, Mathias SFD Sweden ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss End of SFD-discuss Digest, Vol 28, Issue 2 ******************************************

Feb. 16, 2009

Re: [SFD-discuss] Schwags this year

by Mathias Friman

> Dear all, > We've been starting to prepare for SFD'09 and we would like to know if > there is anything that we could add/replace in the schwags we're sending > out that could be more helpful for your team to prepare the event this > year. We of course do have a limited budget, but it would be nice to get > some feedback about how to possibly improve our support. > So I hope to get a lot of feedbacks from the 600 team leaders and their > support team who made SFD '08 happen! Since we do a lot of marketing on the web, one thing that would be nice is the new SFD'09 logo. Couldn't take more than an hour to do a remake on the '08 one.. :) Preferrably in SVG format so it can be fitted to any physical size. This is definately priority number one. Since we in Sweden (at least to some part) try to coordinate everything on a local level, we usually do our own swedish marketing material. That's why it would'a been awsome to get t-shirt-logos and stuff so that we can hunt our own sponsors for printing t-shirts and posters. However, I don't know how much responsability and control you are willing to delegate to local groups. :) Kindest regards, Mathias SFD Sweden

Feb. 15, 2009

Open source community members in Hobart, Tasmania

by Steve Olive

Hi, A bit of a strange request ;-) but one of my colleagues has moved from Bathurst NSW to Hobart Tasmania. He has helped me with Software Freedom Day for that last 3 years and wanted to get involved in Hobart but isn't sure who to contact. Is there a Software Freedom Day group in Hobart? If so, could someone or everyone in SFD Hobart please contact me off list so I can pass on contact details? I'd post his contact details, but I use this email address which is the only email account on this mail server, for one thing, subscribing to the SFD Discuss list but I receive nearly 300 spam emails a week :( -- Thanks, Steve Computer Support Officer P/T Teacher Information Technology P/T Arts & IT Faculty Bathurst TAFE NSW Western Institute Phone: 02 6338 2450 email: steve(a)bathurst-tafe.nsw.edu.au .... _ ... (0)> ... //\ .. //. ) .. V__/_ Linux Powered! Registered Linux User #355382 Registered Ubuntu User #19586

Feb. 14, 2009