On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 12:51 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote: > Dear Akhil, > > If you believe every attendees carry their own bags, let's skip the > paper bags / any bags. > > Do we have time to quote for Pins instead? > > http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/LaunchParty/Artworks?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=launch-parties-goodies.png > > If yes, let's give away pins? what do u think? I would still propose t-shirt or even conference bag (jute or cloth) which will come between $3 - $4. It doesn't mean that if we have additional money, we should spend everything. We are just requesting for item which is feasible and expected by paid registrants specially in India. Why we should give - 1) This is the first time we have registration fee (for valid reasons as per local experience) so even if you hadn't given anything like free t-shirt to participants in previous gnome.asia events (those years registration was free), it would be fine to give this time. 2) We are not asking to give free item to everybody. It will be given to only who have paid us registration money. We haven't reached 100 so far in online registration system, so the actual quantity will be very limited and won't add very much on our budget. This will make differentiation easy between paid and free registrants. We cann't justify that only food is free for paid registrants. Say 800 people come to conference and only 150 comes through online paid registration, we will be giving free giveaways to only 150 participants. 3) It's good for GNOME marketing. That is the whole purpose of the event - Help to grow GNOME in Asia. It doesn't mean that by giving free give ways only GNOME can reach to masses but it will surely help. It may help to spread the message to a larger student community. Just my thoughts. But in any case, we should take final call soon. Thanks, Akhil > > Cheers, > Pockey > > > On 03/22/2011 06:49 PM, Akhil Laddha wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 17:40 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote: > > > I think Bharath has quoted conference bag and gave me the size > > > earlier. It's about 1 US$ each. Is it right? > > > They are standard paper conference bags, purpose is for sponsors to > > > put leaflets or gifts inside. What do you suggest? > > I don't see much use of those paper bags. Even if we don't give paper > > bags, it's fine, people will have their own bags to carry. If we want to > > give something memorable, then we should give something useful which can > > be used at least for some months. > > > > We can arrange for plastic bags which will cost way less than paper bag > > if we just want to give bags to keep conference stuff. > > > > - Akhil > > > > > Pockey > > > > > > > > > On 03/22/2011 05:35 PM, Akhil Laddha wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > How much budget have we allocated or we have available for > > > > conference bags ? I meant price per bag, how much is feasible for us ? > > > > > > > > We have found one manufacturer [1] in Bangalore. You can find different > > > > types of bags on website and let us know if you have any preference/ > > > > choice. We will inquire about price for that model. He will show us > > > > samples but would be good to know budget before we proceed further. > > > > > > > > [1] http://www.jjp.in/ or http://www.justjuteproducts.com/ > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Akhil > > > > > > > > > >
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