Inkscape Conference stuff...
Hey board,
Can we get some conference stuff funded? Primarily, we need a slick banner for SCaLE... the standard one they provide is horrible. Also, if we can find a good supplier, selling Inkscape shirts (for very little profit) would be really cool to both spread the word, make users feel pride, and to raise small amounts of money. Selling at cost may be more awkward due to the odd amounts we'd have to ask for, but if we put it forth as "the less than $1 difference" or "the extra dollar"->"gets contributed to the project". At the very least we need shirts for people manning booths. Any thoughts?
Cheers, Josh
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 01:12:37AM -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
Hey board,
Can we get some conference stuff funded? Primarily, we need a slick banner for SCaLE... the standard one they provide is horrible. Also, if we can find a good supplier, selling Inkscape shirts (for very little profit) would be really cool to both spread the word, make users feel pride, and to raise small amounts of money. Selling at cost may be more awkward due to the odd amounts we'd have to ask for, but if we put it forth as "the less than $1 difference" or "the extra dollar"->"gets contributed to the project". At the very least we need shirts for people manning booths. Any thoughts?
I think they both sound like good ideas.
Our donation page specifically says that donations will be used to support conferences "such as SCALE", so that seems like a no-brainer. Get a quote on a design, post it to the board and we'll do a vote. Really the only question is where the banner should live between events.
The T-shirts seems like a good idea too, although a bit more complicated. I assume for this we'd need to get some approved amount of $$ for printing the shirts, then some plan for how to dispose of shirts not sold at the event.
Bryce
P.S. I'll get the results of this week's vote out this weekend.
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...24...>wrote:
Our donation page specifically says that donations will be used to support conferences "such as SCALE", so that seems like a no-brainer. Get a quote on a design, post it to the board and we'll do a vote. Really the only question is where the banner should live between events.
I think the where the banner should live between events is pretty straight forward... Jon Cruz should have it. He attends the most conferences in the name of Inkscape and to me it just seems like the logical choice. On average he seems to attend at least LGM, SCaLE, OSCon, & LCA on the regular (I know he attends others too). I don't know that we have a booth presence at half of these, but still... there's potential for us to if we don't. I also don't know what things are like in terms of our presence at SIGGRAPH, but it does seem appropriate that we try to be visible there.
As a side-comment... if you have "google suggest" enabled, just type the letters "ink" into google's search bar. For as many applicable "ink" searches I can think of, I find that to be quite rewarding/fulfilling. :)
The T-shirts seems like a good idea too, although a bit more complicated. I assume for this we'd need to get some approved amount of $$ for printing the shirts, then some plan for how to dispose of shirts not sold at the event.
I see storage for next year as opposed to disposal as a more viable solution. There's no way we'd go for a crazy bulk order the first time around without testing the waters. So... 50 shirts? (or wherever the price-break mark is) That's what we go for. Yeah, we're probably saying, "Hey Jon, can you store this between conferences and are you willing?" but I think it's not a bad way to explore this. For the people in the booth, I think we should go the embroidery on quality Polos route to be interesting... I have a friend's mom who would be willing to do it for us, so it would be purely cost of shirts and thread. :)
Cheers, Josh
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 01:47:57AM -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...24...>wrote:
Our donation page specifically says that donations will be used to support conferences "such as SCALE", so that seems like a no-brainer. Get a quote on a design, post it to the board and we'll do a vote. Really the only question is where the banner should live between events.
I think the where the banner should live between events is pretty straight forward... Jon Cruz should have it. He attends the most conferences in the name of Inkscape and to me it just seems like the logical choice. On average he seems to attend at least LGM, SCaLE, OSCon, & LCA on the regular (I know he attends others too). I don't know that we have a booth presence at half of these, but still... there's potential for us to if we don't.
Alright, so draft up a proposal for a booth banner that Jon Cruz will manage at his discretion for events he (or his designee) can attend. Is there an existing design that would be used, or would something need to be crafted? If the former, we just need to know printing costs; if the latter, guess it should include a design bid as well.
The T-shirts seems like a good idea too, although a bit more complicated. I assume for this we'd need to get some approved amount of $$ for printing the shirts, then some plan for how to dispose of shirts not sold at the event.
I see storage for next year as opposed to disposal as a more viable solution. There's no way we'd go for a crazy bulk order the first time around without testing the waters. So... 50 shirts? (or wherever the price-break mark is) That's what we go for. Yeah, we're probably saying, "Hey Jon, can you store this between conferences and are you willing?" but I think it's not a bad way to explore this. For the people in the booth, I think we should go the embroidery on quality Polos route to be interesting... I have a friend's mom who would be willing to do it for us, so it would be purely cost of shirts and thread. :)
Ok, so I guess what we'd need to see is the $ cost on the 50 shirts embroidered, and sample of the embroidery.
Even if I can't make it to the conference I'd definitely be interested in buying an embroidered Inkscape t-shirt (or polo).
Bryce
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