ubuntu-us-ohio team mailing list archive

[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Stephen Michael Kellat
<skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay.  I've just been reading on Identi.ca about the lovely flap
> involving an Ubuntu Member in New Zealand so I kinda missed the start of
> this thread.  That flap will relate to the Software Freedom Day note I
> am now re-writing so we can put our best foot forward in spreading
> Ubuntu.
>
> We've got $66.23 in the pool that can be obligated at this point.  If we
> cannot get a conference pack, what else can we do within our resources?

Fantastic question.

>
> 1.  If anybody has a Lightscribe burner (or more), we can make our own
> nice-looking CDs for distribution.

I'm going to try and get CDs out of this. I'll have a box-load for us,
but more is always better.

>
> 2.  A small order can be done with FedexOffice to print hand-outs.  We
> need to have the print job's extent settled one week before show time.
> Considering the Kiwi who shot his mouth off on the planet earlier, it is
> going to be rather important that we use appropriate PR skills to
> deflect from that mess.  Since we're not getting anything from Canonical
> we're going to have to hurriedly make our own.

Someone should run with this. I like it already :)

>
> 3.  T-shirts take about a month in terms of lead-time to order from a
> supplier.  Unless we wanted to do our own silk-screening of the Ubuntu
> Ohio logo, that's out the window as an option right now.

Let's try for it anyway. See if we can get a quote and turnaround
ASAP. See if we can do something :)

>
> 4.  If somebody can find a suitably-sized punch bowl and ladle, we could
> go with custom-print M&M's bearing logos.  This might clean us out
> financially, though: http://www.mymms.com/customprint_faces/

I like the email after this RE choco product, that site looks amazing :)

-Tag

>
> SMK
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:47:31 -0400, "Paul Tagliamonte"
> <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jacob Peddicord <jpeddicord@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > I fail at reply-to-all.
>> >
>> > They probably have a ton of old branding materials. Think of how many
>> > stickers and T-shirts are going to waste! :P
>> >
>> > Just double-checking, this includes CDs, right?
>>
>> I think so, I'm going to try and get what I can out of it.
>>
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> They are re-branding everything, and they don't want to send the old
>> >>> "round" branding out.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jacob Peddicord
>> >> http://jacob.peddicord.net/
>> >> https://launchpad.net/~jpeddicord
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jacob Peddicord
>> > http://jacob.peddicord.net/
>> > https://launchpad.net/~jpeddicord
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> :wq
>>
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