Hello Geekos, I would like to give my feedback as well. As the last year i participated in some FOSS events (by boothing), i would like to mention the following ones: a) Depending on the event (small-scale , medium-scale , large-scale) i estimate that always 35% of attendees in the event they do pick up swag items (Promo DVD's, leaflets, stickers etc) , in other words 1 in 3 people do take "our" stuff. b) If i have swag, like stickers, posters, t-shirts i think the best ways to give them away are: i) Make a draw [1] like i did during the Release Party in Madrid [2] ii) Create a quiz and give away a set of swag [poster,t-shirt,sticker etc] in the winner(s) of this quiz [1] https://github.com/athanrous/openSUSE-Release-Party [2] https://zoumpis.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/informe-de-la-fiesta-de-lanzamiento... Greetings , Ilias R. (aka Zoumpis) On 11/27/2012 03:27 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Jos Poortvliet<jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
And does it make a difference if you also have other things, like stickers, posters, t-shirts and such - do you then need less, or more DVD's? T-Shirts, Posters, and other swag items do make a difference. People love the stuff gecko, I hold on to those to pass out to people that really want to use openSUSE. At one Linux Fest because I only had two, I told a few people if they were willing to install openSUSE there I would give them gecko, and I did have two people do it.
T-Shirts I give out to those will watch and try out and openSUSE. We have sold t-shirts to help out a Linux Fest I was at. The fest have loved us for that.
I usually I take print out one pages documents with commands like the poster that I did for openSUSE. I always have a couple other one page man pages. I think if we could so some small pages on how to use SUSE Studio and OBS that those would be a bit hit as well.
The people that usually get the DVD, get the stickers and place them on their laptops. I have request for cooler stickers. Like those gecko that Novell did a few back. Or the cards that Carlos made for SCALE. So sticker a big items. I have even had a quest for SUSE Studio Roboman as stickers.
I have had a requested for usb drives with openSUSE install it so that people can use on their netbooks and other devices.
The only thing that hasn't been popular was those ipod man things.
So yes, please keep the t-shirt, posters, stickers, and other items. People love them, I can tell you that they are unhappy when we don't have any swag items.
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