On Saturday 11 May 2013 14:20:01 Peter Czanik wrote:
Hello,
On 05/11/2013 01:55 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
For example, the boothbox contents are being developed here: https://board.opensuse.org/projects/travel-support-program-management/wi ki/Booth_box Input welcome, of course.
OK. Just read it (well, most of it :-) ). So, I have a couple of questions:
- Here in Hungary I'm aware of four larger events for this year, and by local measures "larger" means 100+ visitors :-) Neither of them reach the magic 1k visitor number mentioned on the page, but the combined number is expected to be over 2k. What to do in this case?
For the first year, that means there won't be any materials from Nuremberg. However, you can use the travel program which has a Eur 100 budget per event to create things locally. Moreover, once the list I've created is more public we can discuss things like this. It might indeed make sense to send one box to Hungary, but then we have to ensure that the materials actually make it to these events. The goal is to try and get materials to several countries and get things to the right place within the country. We'll just have to focus - if you have seen the costs of the boxes (the small box would be over Eur 700, and shipping is usually about the same) I hope you understand we have only a limited number of them. We will have to be smart about it - and how to do that exactly we still have to figure out.
- Our next and largest event will be held in about a month (FSF Hungary Conference: http://konf.fsf.hu/ ). I ordered DVDs two months in advance just to learn last week, that they will never arrive. Can you send a "small box" on time (if at all)?
I doubt it, I'm sorry. We will hopefully begin ordering materials by the end of this month but I don't expect anything to be send out before the end of June... Also, we'll use the slowest shipment options to limit the costs so I don't think any event will have a box until after the openSUSE Conference. This all just takes a LOT of time and work. Also, the question is if the events in Hungary are on the list of events we will support the coming 12 months. This list contains the events from our ambassador event wiki [1] as well as the events I was told about when I asked (several times) on the ambassador and marketing lists for help with making the list. So again, travel committee has budget. Use it, please.
Bye, CzP