[ubuntu-uk] Linux User Group of Glastonbury (was High Wycombe LUG)

[alan c]

On 29/07/12 18:26, Laura Czajkowski wrote:
> On 29/07/12 17:56, alan c wrote:
>> On 29/07/12 11:40, Bill B. wrote:
>>> Make up an Ubuntu flag, stick it on a pole with a Tux flag adjacent
>>> [above or below] and set up at the next Glastonbury festival.
>>> The people you meet will [hopefully] be a nice surprise, more open
>>> minded and may solve all those problems for you - and  maybe sow a few
>>> seeds of their own.
>>
>> Please let me know of any Ubuntu flag?
>> I would like to consider this, I also attend events where a flag would
>> be a benefit. The Orange Ubuntu logo is less attractive than the
>> multicoloured legacy logo. Before the logo changed I contacted the
>> Ubuntu shop and also flag makers to see what could be done. It was
>> deemed to be not shop worthy, and flags seemed surprisingly expensive
>> as custom items.
> We have the Ubuntu table cloths which are branded nicely and many teams
> world wide use them at events. Some people also have pop up stands,
> again leads to looking more professional as it has our branding on it.

Table cloths are good for close up, already captured, customers.
Pop up stands - I think I used one via Alan Pope a few years ago - 
signal 'corporate' which is really good in some contexts. In other 
contexts 'corporate' is a no no because 'community', 'voluntary'  and 
  'local group' are very non-corporate in the traditional sense.
However, a flag is a generally seen as happiness on a stick, and at a 
distance too. The world now (unwittingly) awaits  a wider advertising 
of Ubuntu, and flags could play a part in that.
I originally  had in mind car window flags, and also a larger flag to 
hoist at various non tech camping  type rallies.

-- 
alan cocks