On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:29:16AM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > > I can probably make at least 100 of these CDs, and I (or rather the DDDI) > > > will > > > sponsor them so we can give them away for free. (But donations should be > > > encouraged of course..) I'll put the final image in some rsyncable place > > > so > > > that interested parties can burn too. I have >500 paper sleeves (NL: > > > papieren > > > CD hoesjes) available, so you can buy jewelcase-less CDs for this purpose. > > > I currently recommend Arita (74 if you can get them) which cost NLG > > > ~1.25/CD. > > > > IMHO 100 CD's are nothing. > > > > On the LinuxTag-2000 (Stuttgart / Germany) we handout 10.000 (?, Joey > > can you remember?) CD's in three days. > > It was 5,000 CDs and I cannot believe this or about any visitor of > the Debian booth got one. I feel somewhat sad that no cd's were > left over and that I only got one by accident.
Please remember that Linux Expo Amsterdam is NOT a big event. According to http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/exhibition/faq.php3 there were 20,000 visitors to LinuxTag-2000. LEAms will only have 3,000. Also, Linux is not yet known very well here, so it's quite hard to find sponsors of any kind. > > With only 100 free (in the meaning 'free beer') handout CD's, you > > don't have CD's after 1 hour. > > I don't believe the cd's should be handed out like suse crap. People > just take them but don't install them. That doesn't help. Imho it's > better to hand out cd's at request for really interested people. That's exactly what I had in mind. From what I've heard, this was also done quite successfully in London last year. Regards, Anne Bezemer
