Am 24.03.19 um 02:07 schrieb Bryce Harrington:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 01:15:18AM +0100, Maren Hachmann wrote:
Am 23.03.19 um 05:44 schrieb Bryce Harrington:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:15:09PM +0100, Maren Hachmann wrote:
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Aude is asking us if we would be able to staff a booth there, to present Inkscape to students and small businesses.
This would be cool, we had a lot of fun manning the booth at SCALE. Who might be interested in staffing this one?
- So far, Mihaela, Marc and myself (they replied to this thread). One or
two more German speakers would be nice.
Okay, that should be plenty. Let Aude know, and maybe ask about how big the event is, so we have an idea for how much handout material to bring.
- I already told her :)
The planning for the event isn't fully done yet, and I'm not sure she herself can already estimate how many visitors there will be on that day (and if they care about graphics software, or mostly about ERP and CRM).
She's planning for 2 keynotes, and then 3 tracks (2 with talks, 1 workshop) + exhibition, but it's not ready yet.
It's not going to be a huge event, I think, but we'll only know when the program is public.
I assume that we'll also need handout stuff for LGM itself? If we take care to keep things generic and version-agnostic, it's okay if we have leftovers. There's always going to be a chance to spread it :)
Checking my records, we approved $80 for the hanging banner including hardware and packaging. For one of the earlier SCALE events, we allocated $80 to cover costs for printing stickers, cards, etc. So that'd suggest a budget of about 150-200 €. Does that sound adequate?
- I looked into rollup display banners yesterday. At the print shop I usually use, the ones that are B1-certified (fire protected, a requirement for many exhibition spaces) cost between 50 and 70 €, depending on the size (200 x 60 or 200 x 85 cm) which depends on the width/height ratio of our template.
Business cards are dead cheap, with 250 in a quality that is explicitly described as 'writeable' coming at 10 €.
100 double-side printed A4 matte 250g/m² Mini-Posters (idea: kbd shortcuts front, tricks and tips and general project info back - but there's no template yet) cost 21 €.
Stickers (20 sheets A4) depend on the material selected, but are around 60 €- I've asked for a sample pack for the materials. I don't think we will need that many, but we could spread them among ourselves, so everyone has a stash to give away at conferences they attend. I don't know how much the ones Chris made cost.
So the amount you are suggesting should be enough, I think.
I have test-ordered a couple of stickers (see photo: https://framadrive.org/s/ir3kN4TZK4gN7GB), but they didn't turn out as nice as the ones Chris made (they seem to be printed with a lower resolution (photo compression makes it hard to see, though), and 'silver foil' is something different, too - and of course, they lack that bit of creative skill. They're very durable, though, I believe.).
At least I now know what type of data I need to send when printing white on silver, and making cutting lines
The sheet itself cost 2,84 €, corresponding to roughly 7 eurocent per sticker. Machine adjustment was 8,20 €, though. More sheets are cheaper.
I'd prefer Chris' stickers, though, if we can manage to get some of them over here in time.
Yes, those would be ideal; they went quickly at our booth. (There were piles of stickers at SCALE, you had to be choosy what stickers to take!)
Fwiw, hexagonal stickers were definitely a Thing there. We'd discussed this in the past, might be something to consider.
- If Chris has some time ;-)
But what we felt what we really needed were business cards. Something with the URL we could hand out, and that had whitespace to jot notes on for people. This could be simpler to design than a brochure, and super cheap to print a lot of.
An idea Josh suggested was to find a printer that can print and ship the whole set of materials (stickers, banners, cards, brochures) in one go, so as to minimize the amount of legwork needed on our end to piece-by-piece source stuff. We didn't get into details on that though, so I'm hoping Josh can elaborate on the bug report about this:
- The print shop I usually use for Kielux would be able to print all materials. They ship each ordered item separately, to any address (in Europe).
While the stickers' black color seems to bleed a bit, so the tiny hairline gaps in the lettering get really very tiny, I have made good experiences with the quality of flyers / business cards / posters.
Customer service is a bit clueless, though. They only know where to click in Adobe Illustrator, so you need to know what you're doing already when ordering there and using FLOSS. Took me some time to learn...
Maren
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/111
Bryce