ShipIt Requests For LoCo Team Events

[Jan Claeys]

Op donderdag 17-12-2009 om 12:33 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef
Christopher Swift:
> As for popey's and Jan's responses to the issue,  yes it may seem
> like the request is huge and completely unneccessary however with
> around 300 discs,  we will only be catering for 1% of the attendees of
> the event and I'm sure as anything hoping that we can at least get an
> extra 50 community members out of the 300 or so people that we manage
> to talk to regarding Ubuntu and eventually help by giving them a
> professional looking disc.

Most of the discs ubuntu-be distributes are CD-Rs we burn ourselves, as
in the past asking for the real amount of discs we needed was never
approved.

We also have an urn for contributions[*] at most events, which in many
but not all places provides us with enough money to pay for the booth &
CD-Rs (occasionally we get up to twice the booth cost in gifts!).

Don't worry too much about discs "looking professional", but rather
emphasize that it's legal to copy Ubuntu unlimitedly--distributing CD-Rs
sort of proves your point on that.


[*] visitor: "Can we get a free CD?" - we: "Yes, but of course we always
appreciate contributions to our costs" - don't be surprised if some
people donate up to 5, 10 or even 20 €.  So: *Don't be shy to ask for
gifts!*


-- 
Jan Claeys