Re: GNOME FOSDEM Stand

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de> wrote:
> Hey folks :)
>
> On 06.02.2012 16:05, Allan Day wrote:
>> Do we know if there is room in the box for those things?
> We do. And it doesn't. At all. There has barely been enough space to fit
> the nice nametags we had. That's for the v2 box (which should be called
> v3 because of GNOME3 anyway ;-) ) but the v1 box didn't have significant
> space left as I've last seen it in May.
>
> Your suggestions are very good though. We should try to figure out how
> to get things like more merchandise or roll up displays around the world.
> Some suggestions that need evaluation:
>
> Simply have another box with the additional stuff.
> But we'd need to find out:
>        How much does such a box cost?
>        Much much does shipping cost?
>        And well, then we need an educated guess whether these costs
>        are worth the expected promotional effect.

If we want a better stand, we need more stuff for the stand, and that
means we need more transport capacity. That means either another box
or a bigger box. :)

Is someone able to find out how much another box would cost to buy and
transport? Do we know how many times a year the events box is used?

> Somehow attach more things to the existing box, i.e. with duct tape
> (which is currently not present in the box ;-) ).
>        Does it make sense at all to have such a construction shipped?
>        Is there a container that is attachable to the box?
>
> Distribute more, i.e. make more people have more stuff.
>        Well, I guess it costs a lot of money to distribute everything
>        multiple times so that shipping will never be necessary. But
>        then again, that's just a feeling and I haven't checked it.
>
>> Who has the box at the moment?
> Me. I wanted to bring it to CeBIT. But so far we lack people to stand at
> the booth. So it's probably not going to happen :-/

Yeah, these options don't seem to be as practical.

Allan