On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Ted Gould wrote:
Hey guys,
I submitted the application for us to have a booth at SCALE again this year. I was thinking that perhaps we'd have a give away like stickers, something that says "Inkscape" on it. I figured we could do the design via contest. Anyway, that's really background, what I want to ask is how the stickers should (if they were approved by the board) be distributed:
-- Give aways -- Sell for a $1 donation
I'm kinda thinking give aways, but it seems like a case where we could make some money and not spend money on people who really don't care, they just want something for free.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Just been at a similar show (ditto mental). People like to pick up things for free without even looking at them. Putting a cost on them says firstly that you care about them and secondly that they are not advertising (which is of course not actually true, but that seems to be perception). I would charge for them. Ideally charge as close as possible to cost price. You might also get some ubuntu CDs with inkscape on them to sell for a few $ for people who want to try it.
Finally, make some business cards for inkscape to give out and put important URLs on it (including inkscape.org, openclipart.org and the mailing list page). Otherwise you will spend the day writing them out.
njh