Hey all,
So, for those that don't know, SCaLE is the Southern California Linux Expo, it's the largest annual open source conference of it's type in North America (we had over 3,000 registered attendees this year). Just for transparency, I am one of the conference organizers (the Arts Chair), so I wanted to put that out there.
Jon Cruz probably has a much better feel for how the booth activity was, but from the time I was there it seemed like the expo attendees were really interested in Inkscape as usual. The mix of people who know about Inkscape and those that have never heard of it was about the same as previous years from what I can tell (about 50/50), Jon could probably better comment on that since he spent far more time in the booth than I. Probably some of my best interactions were where people were users that couldn't figure out how to do things, and teaching them on the spot.
I did want to say that the banner that we got for the booth made a big difference in terms of an appearance of professionalism. There was also an 18"x24" sign for the hackfest (which SCaLE paid for) which contributed to the booth appearance. Jon could give you numbers on how many of the Moo mini cards went out, but I think stickers will be a must in the future (people love free stuff, and I want to see people's laptops decorated with our logo). Anyway the items we had were definitely a great first step imho, but there are other components which we might want to look into for future years. Table skirt or much larger banner/booth backdrop for example. Note: The banner we have is great for the front of the booth, we just need something for the back as well.
Anyway, just wanted to drop that little bit of info. I'm still kind of drained and not running on all cylinders again yet, so if I think of more, I will add it to the thread.
Oh, and I just donated $5 to the hackfest via paypal because someone gave me a $5 bill in person at SCaLE.
Cheers, Josh
Thanks Josh!
Is SCaLE still happening? When it's finished, all this information would be great for a news article. I'll collect any additional info and put one together unless you beat me to it :-)
Pro Tip: Coloured Bed sheets work really well as table clothes at booths. They're even usually similar aspects.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On 24 February 2015 at 15:19, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
Hey all,
So, for those that don't know, SCaLE is the Southern California Linux Expo, it's the largest annual open source conference of it's type in North America (we had over 3,000 registered attendees this year). Just for transparency, I am one of the conference organizers (the Arts Chair), so I wanted to put that out there.
Jon Cruz probably has a much better feel for how the booth activity was, but from the time I was there it seemed like the expo attendees were really interested in Inkscape as usual. The mix of people who know about Inkscape and those that have never heard of it was about the same as previous years from what I can tell (about 50/50), Jon could probably better comment on that since he spent far more time in the booth than I. Probably some of my best interactions were where people were users that couldn't figure out how to do things, and teaching them on the spot.
I did want to say that the banner that we got for the booth made a big difference in terms of an appearance of professionalism. There was also an 18"x24" sign for the hackfest (which SCaLE paid for) which contributed to the booth appearance. Jon could give you numbers on how many of the Moo mini cards went out, but I think stickers will be a must in the future (people love free stuff, and I want to see people's laptops decorated with our logo). Anyway the items we had were definitely a great first step imho, but there are other components which we might want to look into for future years. Table skirt or much larger banner/booth backdrop for example. Note: The banner we have is great for the front of the booth, we just need something for the back as well.
Anyway, just wanted to drop that little bit of info. I'm still kind of drained and not running on all cylinders again yet, so if I think of more, I will add it to the thread.
Oh, and I just donated $5 to the hackfest via paypal because someone gave me a $5 bill in person at SCaLE.
Cheers, Josh
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 06:15:48PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
Thanks Josh!
Is SCaLE still happening? When it's finished, all this information would be great for a news article. I'll collect any additional info and put one together unless you beat me to it :-)
Pro Tip: Coloured Bed sheets work really well as table clothes at booths. They're even usually similar aspects.
I know there is a contingent of Inkscape users that use it for making patterns for fabric cutting machines. I wonder if we could recruit one of them to manufacture something cool?
May as well make the booth decorations themselves be discussion pieces on use of Inkscape, right?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On 24 February 2015 at 15:19, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
Hey all,
So, for those that don't know, SCaLE is the Southern California Linux Expo, it's the largest annual open source conference of it's type in North America (we had over 3,000 registered attendees this year). Just for transparency, I am one of the conference organizers (the Arts Chair), so I wanted to put that out there.
Jon Cruz probably has a much better feel for how the booth activity was, but from the time I was there it seemed like the expo attendees were really interested in Inkscape as usual. The mix of people who know about Inkscape and those that have never heard of it was about the same as previous years from what I can tell (about 50/50), Jon could probably better comment on that since he spent far more time in the booth than I. Probably some of my best interactions were where people were users that couldn't figure out how to do things, and teaching them on the spot.
I did want to say that the banner that we got for the booth made a big difference in terms of an appearance of professionalism. There was also an 18"x24" sign for the hackfest (which SCaLE paid for) which contributed to the booth appearance. Jon could give you numbers on how many of the Moo mini cards went out, but I think stickers will be a must in the future (people love free stuff, and I want to see people's laptops decorated with our logo). Anyway the items we had were definitely a great first step imho, but there are other components which we might want to look into for future years. Table skirt or much larger banner/booth backdrop for example. Note: The banner we have is great for the front of the booth, we just need something for the back as well.
Anyway, just wanted to drop that little bit of info. I'm still kind of drained and not running on all cylinders again yet, so if I think of more, I will add it to the thread.
Oh, and I just donated $5 to the hackfest via paypal because someone gave me a $5 bill in person at SCaLE.
Cheers, Josh
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
I know there is a contingent of Inkscape users that use it for making patterns for fabric cutting machines. I wonder if we could recruit one of them to manufacture something cool?
May as well make the booth decorations themselves be discussion pieces on use of Inkscape, right?
Excellent idea! I will try the forums, and then move on to social media if there isn't much of a response to if anyone might be interested.
Cheers, Josh
SCaLE was from Feb 19-22, at the Hilton @ LAX. So yes, it's over, my brain is still not back to 100% functional yet though. :) As for writeups, chances are I won't beat you to it because I'm still getting caught up on lots of other things.
Cheers, Josh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
Thanks Josh!
Is SCaLE still happening? When it's finished, all this information would be great for a news article. I'll collect any additional info and put one together unless you beat me to it :-)
Pro Tip: Coloured Bed sheets work really well as table clothes at booths. They're even usually similar aspects.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On 24 February 2015 at 15:19, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
Hey all,
So, for those that don't know, SCaLE is the Southern California Linux Expo, it's the largest annual open source conference of it's type in North America (we had over 3,000 registered attendees this year). Just for transparency, I am one of the conference organizers (the Arts Chair), so I wanted to put that out there.
Jon Cruz probably has a much better feel for how the booth activity was, but from the time I was there it seemed like the expo attendees were really interested in Inkscape as usual. The mix of people who know about Inkscape and those that have never heard of it was about the same as previous years from what I can tell (about 50/50), Jon could probably better comment on that since he spent far more time in the booth than I. Probably some of my best interactions were where people were users that couldn't figure out how to do things, and teaching them on the spot.
I did want to say that the banner that we got for the booth made a big difference in terms of an appearance of professionalism. There was also an 18"x24" sign for the hackfest (which SCaLE paid for) which contributed to the booth appearance. Jon could give you numbers on how many of the Moo mini cards went out, but I think stickers will be a must in the future (people love free stuff, and I want to see people's laptops decorated with our logo). Anyway the items we had were definitely a great first step imho, but there are other components which we might want to look into for future years. Table skirt or much larger banner/booth backdrop for example. Note: The banner we have is great for the front of the booth, we just need something for the back as well.
Anyway, just wanted to drop that little bit of info. I'm still kind of drained and not running on all cylinders again yet, so if I think of more, I will add it to the thread.
Oh, and I just donated $5 to the hackfest via paypal because someone gave me a $5 bill in person at SCaLE.
Cheers, Josh
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Great Josh,
I'll wait for the extra info and a photo if you have any for the article.
Martin,
On 25 February 2015 at 18:43, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
SCaLE was from Feb 19-22, at the Hilton @ LAX. So yes, it's over, my brain is still not back to 100% functional yet though. :) As for writeups, chances are I won't beat you to it because I'm still getting caught up on lots of other things.
Cheers, Josh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
Thanks Josh!
Is SCaLE still happening? When it's finished, all this information would be great for a news article. I'll collect any additional info and put one together unless you beat me to it :-)
Pro Tip: Coloured Bed sheets work really well as table clothes at booths. They're even usually similar aspects.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On 24 February 2015 at 15:19, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
Hey all,
So, for those that don't know, SCaLE is the Southern California Linux Expo, it's the largest annual open source conference of it's type in North America (we had over 3,000 registered attendees this year). Just for transparency, I am one of the conference organizers (the Arts Chair), so I wanted to put that out there.
Jon Cruz probably has a much better feel for how the booth activity was, but from the time I was there it seemed like the expo attendees were really interested in Inkscape as usual. The mix of people who know about Inkscape and those that have never heard of it was about the same as previous years from what I can tell (about 50/50), Jon could probably better comment on that since he spent far more time in the booth than I. Probably some of my best interactions were where people were users that couldn't figure out how to do things, and teaching them on the spot.
I did want to say that the banner that we got for the booth made a big difference in terms of an appearance of professionalism. There was also an 18"x24" sign for the hackfest (which SCaLE paid for) which contributed to the booth appearance. Jon could give you numbers on how many of the Moo mini cards went out, but I think stickers will be a must in the future (people love free stuff, and I want to see people's laptops decorated with our logo). Anyway the items we had were definitely a great first step imho, but there are other components which we might want to look into for future years. Table skirt or much larger banner/booth backdrop for example. Note: The banner we have is great for the front of the booth, we just need something for the back as well.
Anyway, just wanted to drop that little bit of info. I'm still kind of drained and not running on all cylinders again yet, so if I think of more, I will add it to the thread.
Oh, and I just donated $5 to the hackfest via paypal because someone gave me a $5 bill in person at SCaLE.
Cheers, Josh
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Martin,
So, I don't have a booth photo, but if you look to the far right, you can see how our banner at the front of our booth is pretty effective at improving our visibility. :) https://flic.kr/p/riaxbi (I'm still looking for photos of it)
Cheers, Josh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
Great Josh,
I'll wait for the extra info and a photo if you have any for the article.
Martin,
On 25 February 2015 at 18:43, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
SCaLE was from Feb 19-22, at the Hilton @ LAX. So yes, it's over, my brain is still not back to 100% functional yet though. :) As for writeups, chances are I won't beat you to it because I'm still getting caught up on lots of other things.
Cheers, Josh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
Thanks Josh!
Is SCaLE still happening? When it's finished, all this information would be great for a news article. I'll collect any additional info and put one together unless you beat me to it :-)
Pro Tip: Coloured Bed sheets work really well as table clothes at booths. They're even usually similar aspects.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On 24 February 2015 at 15:19, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
Hey all,
So, for those that don't know, SCaLE is the Southern California Linux Expo, it's the largest annual open source conference of it's type in North America (we had over 3,000 registered attendees this year). Just for transparency, I am one of the conference organizers (the Arts Chair), so I wanted to put that out there.
Jon Cruz probably has a much better feel for how the booth activity was, but from the time I was there it seemed like the expo attendees were really interested in Inkscape as usual. The mix of people who know about Inkscape and those that have never heard of it was about the same as previous years from what I can tell (about 50/50), Jon could probably better comment on that since he spent far more time in the booth than I. Probably some of my best interactions were where people were users that couldn't figure out how to do things, and teaching them on the spot.
I did want to say that the banner that we got for the booth made a big difference in terms of an appearance of professionalism. There was also an 18"x24" sign for the hackfest (which SCaLE paid for) which contributed to the booth appearance. Jon could give you numbers on how many of the Moo mini cards went out, but I think stickers will be a must in the future (people love free stuff, and I want to see people's laptops decorated with our logo). Anyway the items we had were definitely a great first step imho, but there are other components which we might want to look into for future years. Table skirt or much larger banner/booth backdrop for example. Note: The banner we have is great for the front of the booth, we just need something for the back as well.
Anyway, just wanted to drop that little bit of info. I'm still kind of drained and not running on all cylinders again yet, so if I think of more, I will add it to the thread.
Oh, and I just donated $5 to the hackfest via paypal because someone gave me a $5 bill in person at SCaLE.
Cheers, Josh
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2015-02-24 21:19 GMT+01:00 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>:
Hey all,
So, for those that don't know, SCaLE is the Southern California Linux Expo, it's the largest annual open source conference of it's type in North America (we had over 3,000 registered attendees this year). Just for transparency, I am one of the conference organizers (the Arts Chair), so I wanted to put that out there.
Jon Cruz probably has a much better feel for how the booth activity was, but from the time I was there it seemed like the expo attendees were really interested in Inkscape as usual. The mix of people who know about Inkscape and those that have never heard of it was about the same as previous years from what I can tell (about 50/50), Jon could probably better comment on that since he spent far more time in the booth than I. Probably some of my best interactions were where people were users that couldn't figure out how to do things, and teaching them on the spot.
Just wanted to say thank you for representing us at this event :)
I did want to say that the banner that we got for the booth made a big difference in terms of an appearance of professionalism. There was also an 18"x24" sign for the hackfest (which SCaLE paid for) which contributed to the booth appearance. Jon could give you numbers on how many of the Moo mini cards went out, but I think stickers will be a must in the future (people love free stuff, and I want to see people's laptops decorated with our logo). Anyway the items we had were definitely a great first step imho, but there are other components which we might want to look into for future years. Table skirt or much larger banner/booth backdrop for example. Note: The banner we have is great for the front of the booth, we just need something for the back as well.
Regarding promotional items: I think it could be useful to create a good sticker design and T-shirt design (preferably something more interesting than just our logo) and commit them to the "branding" directory, or otherwise make it available e.g. on the website.
Rationale: There are now many companies that sell custom T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers and similar promotional items printed using DTG technology. Usually it is substantially cheaper to order a one-off item at a local DTG printing company than ship it across Europe or even from the US. Therefore, this could make Inkscape promotional items more easily available. For instance, ordering items from a local company called cupsell.pl is approximately half as expensive for me as ordering from zazzle.com or similar US printers, and that's not even taking shipping charges into account.
Regards, Krzysztof
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 01:21 +0100, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
For instance, ordering items from a local company called cupsell.pl is approximately half as expensive for me as ordering from zazzle.com or similar US printers, and that's not even taking shipping charges into account.
So what your saying is. You'd like to be the supplier for inkscape's European merchandise?
I think it's a great idea!
Putting the designs on the website will be interesting. I'll make a new 'Inkscape Branding' category so you can group them all together.
Martin,
2015-02-26 2:36 GMT+01:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 01:21 +0100, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
For instance, ordering items from a local company called cupsell.pl is approximately half as expensive for me as ordering from zazzle.com or similar US printers, and that's not even taking shipping charges into account.
So what your saying is. You'd like to be the supplier for inkscape's European merchandise?
I think it's a great idea!
Well, a "supplier" is maybe too big of a word :)
What I meant is that a custom printed full color T-shirt at my local company costs 39 PLN (= ~$11 at current exchange rates). I have one from them and the quality seems comparable to the ones that Google gives out to GSoC participants. Three years ago I ordered a run of 100 screen printed, full color T-shirts for a conference, and the total was around 2000 PLN, so they cost around 20 PLN apiece ($6.5 back then; the design looks pretty nice and I have one of them, so I can take it to the hackfest).
These prices are between half and one fifth of I would have to pay to get an equivalent item from a US printer/retailer; an equivalent order at customink.com with delivery to San Francisco costs around $20. So my idea was that if earning extra money for Inkscape through swag sales is not the primary goal, we could just allow people to print their own swag at their local printers, thereby reducing shipping costs considerably.
I don't think I would have time to actually act as a supplier and ship out these things, and although the site I mentioned allows one to create a substore, it is so far only available in Polish - I'm not even sure whether they ship internationally.
Regards, Krzysztof
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 03:47 +0100, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
I don't think I would have time to actually act as a supplier and ship out these things, and although the site I mentioned allows one to create a substore, it is so far only available in Polish - I'm not even sure whether they ship internationally.
These things are all about the systems you can put together to make it /not a job at all/. You could send them out easy.
But mostly I was thinking if we conferences/events in Europe again, we could get you to make a few bits on the cheap instead of brining things from the USA.
Martin,
2015-02-26 4:14 GMT+01:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 03:47 +0100, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
I don't think I would have time to actually act as a supplier and ship out these things, and although the site I mentioned allows one to create a substore, it is so far only available in Polish - I'm not even sure whether they ship internationally.
These things are all about the systems you can put together to make it /not a job at all/. You could send them out easy.
But mostly I was thinking if we conferences/events in Europe again, we could get you to make a few bits on the cheap instead of brining things from the USA.
OK, that I could do. :) I'm not sure where I will live next year though. I might relocate to the U.S. for some time.
Regards, Krzysztof
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 08:36:13PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 01:21 +0100, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
For instance, ordering items from a local company called cupsell.pl is approximately half as expensive for me as ordering from zazzle.com or similar US printers, and that's not even taking shipping charges into account.
So what your saying is. You'd like to be the supplier for inkscape's European merchandise?
I think it's a great idea!
Putting the designs on the website will be interesting. I'll make a new 'Inkscape Branding' category so you can group them all together.
What would the possibility be of having items orderable via our website with a tip jar? I.e. leverage the merch for fundraising purposes...
Bryce
Martin,
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On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 20:22 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
What would the possibility be of having items orderable via our website with a tip jar? I.e. leverage the merch for fundraising purposes...
That's an infrastructure problem. Both physical and online. We'll get to that point, but it'll take more code. I want to make the donations or payments pieces integrated first and then we can move onto using it for things like this.
Martin,
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