Re: Booth Swag
От | Joshua D. Drake |
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Тема | Re: Booth Swag |
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Msg-id | 1213292675.11470.117.camel@jd-laptop обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Booth Swag (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>) |
Список | pgsql-advocacy |
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:37 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Josh, > > > Hmm to me it does. At least in comparison to other things. If we really > > think we can't get good donations for USB sticks, I question the > > expense. Especially when (as you say and are correct) we already > > generate good donations, and feedback from other less expensive but > > equally useful items. > > Well, then we're back to CDs, yes? Since we are a free software project, we > really do want to hand out a "copy" of PostgreSQL. Well, no we really don't :). Frankly I would rather hand out a copy of Ubuntu, which Canonical will give us for free and say, just type apt-get install postgresql-8.3 pgadmin3 and go to this URL. > At trade shows > (LinuxWorld, LinuxTag, LISA, etc.) this is one of the things which > distinguishes us from the commercial software vendors; they won't give away > their software, we will. No it doesn't, if there is a software vendor there, I can get their software on a nice little CD or DVD. Including our primary competition, Oracle. > As for the donations, I don't think we realistically can raise more than about > $350 per trade show booth from all sources without merchandising becoming the > main focus of our booth. Debian does that, and I don't think it's something > we should emulate. > We raised more than that at SCALE, and OSCON last year. > If we're going to add anything to the booth for $$$, I think we should > consider the plushy elephants. That's a higher-end item, and can inspire > people to give us $30-$40 for an elephant instead of $20 for a t-shirt, which > would increase total giving. A shirt is more useful than a plushy elephant and cost about the same. > > I also think we should make a wholesale distribution arrangement with a > publisher (APress?) for PostgreSQL books. Robert, whom should I talk to at > APress? Well we could just use Ingram for that and then avoid dealing with publishers directly as a whole. Joshua D. Drake
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