On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Andres Silva wrote:

That sounds fantastic. Our tram could design something. Although we need to know the banner size and if the project approves of a specific banner.

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Thanks, the help would definitely be welcome. I was thinking about going through one of those online companies that make banners for cheap... all we have to do is provide the graphic and give them a bit of cash. I found this place: http://www.buildasign.com/CustomBanners They do a 3ft by 8ft sign for $50. I don't know what the dementions of the booth is going I don't know if anyone has ever used that company or had success with another company but it should be simple, no matter who I go though. As for getting it approved, I think we should come up with something first and then submit it for approval. Getting an approval when we don't have anything seems like we won't get too far to me. Do you like the idea of a California theme though? -- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:

2012/11/16 Drew Adams :

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Andres Silva wrote:

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That sounds fantastic. Our tram could design something. Although we need to know the banner size and if the project approves of a specific banner.

Sent from my iPhone

Thanks, the help would definitely be welcome. I was thinking about going through one of those online companies that make banners for cheap... all we have to do is provide the graphic and give them a bit of cash. I found this place:

http://www.buildasign.com/CustomBanners

They do a 3ft by 8ft sign for $50. I don't know what the dementions of the booth is going I don't know if anyone has ever used that company or had success with another company but it should be simple, no matter who I go though.

As for getting it approved, I think we should come up with something first and then submit it for approval. Getting an approval when we don't have anything seems like we won't get too far to me. Do you like the idea of a California theme though?

I think that this is a really great idea, Scale is a big event and deserves its own banner, plus that the past 2-3 years we have a constant presence there. Do we have any openSUSE pressentations happening this year? What else are you thinking of having as promotional stuff? Please have in mind that TSP can aprove a small amount for making promotional stuff for the event. let me know your ideas and maybe then I can make some contribution to it :) Kostas

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Exactly what I was thinking... we have been at SCaLE for several years in a row and so long as I live out here I plan to continue working it... it is a larger event in the US and I think it would really get local people interested and want to come talk to us. As far as TSP support for promotional stuff, I was thinking about maybe getting some openSUSE shirts made up with a similar California theme as the banner... to draw even more people to the booth. I really these efforts to help draw people to the booth. I am not going to make the mistake that I made last year... I am going to make a huge effort tell people about our growing local community and tell them about our Southern California openSUSE Meetup group. This way we can stay in communication with them beyond SCaLE and possibly involve them in Launch Parties and such in the future. This way, next year we might have a broader local pool of openSUSE users that might be interested in working the booth.... rinse repeat! I really believe helping people feel more connected to the project by showing a local community who is there and proud will help people want to get engaiged and stay engaged with the overall community (both locally and internationally). The more people feel connected and engaged the more likely they are to want to contribute in whatever way they can... and that is what it is all about for me. -- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

Yes, yes and yes. I fully agree - I even have some tips, see: http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2011/08/10-steps-to-building-local- community.html

Hope it helps.

On to the more practical side of SCALE 11x: * To help things get going I have set up a SCALE page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SCALE2013 And Drew, I put you on there as organizer as you initiated this and clearly want to organize it. If you can't, for some reason - let some of the others who are interested in helping know so ppl can pick things up, of course.

* The TSP (travel support program) can reimburse costs for events up to $100 so now you need a design and a quote on the costs and you can do the banner thing ;-)

I'd suggest to try and put things on that wiki page to make them easier to find and follow.

Loads of hugs, Jos

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-- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project

Jos, Thank you very much for putting up the wiki page for SCaLE 11x. I have very little experience with our wiki but I will try to figure out hot to keep the page up-to-date. I am going to reach out on the -artwork mailinglist for some help with the banner... I am excited to see what we'll come up with for the banner. -- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

Looks great! I am sure we can do something cool with that image and a California sunset for example. Andy (anditosan) On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Drew Adams wrote:

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Drew Adams wrote:

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Hey everyone,

The 11th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 11x), is just around the corner. I have already been in contact with the fine people at SCaLE and secured our booth. They will be getting us our Exhibitor=92s Kit soon enough. I would like to put some feelers out in the community for interested community members that would like to help work the booth. I have informally spoken to a few local people who have expressed a desire to help, but I would like to formalize those discussions by bringing them on-list.

Also, I know there has been some ideas tossed about... Ideas like, getting a custom "openSUSE Project" banner, and having some videos looping showing off the different desktops running on 12.2. If we are serious about doing ideas like these, we need to start planning and, more importantly, acting in preparation for SCaLE.

SCaLE is going to be on February 22-24, 2013 at the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport Hotel. I am looking forward to working the booth again... I hope we get some new faces working the booth this year too. Join us, we always have a lot of fun!

-- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project

I was just looking at some of the openSUSE Artwork and found this image

http://en.opensuse.org/File:Future.png

I was thinking that might be a good image to start with... perhaps we could modify that image to have a palmtree in place of the sign or something... I don't know what other images people feel would represent California that we could work into this image (or one like it). I think if we could come up with something that we really liked maybe we can adapet the banner image to somethnig that would work on a t-shirt too and get some shirts made up for the event... Maybe we cold modify the colors or something too for the shirt version as I know the more colors on a shirt the more expensive it is to get them made.

-- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org