On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, new_guy <byte8b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I mentioned this when I pre-ordered 4.4... I think folks thought that I was >> > joking. Do prizes for pre-orders. Nothing fancy just something like this: >> > >> > 1. First 50 pre-orders win a T-Shirt and Theo signs the CD case. >> > 2. The 100th pre-order wins a coffee mug. >> > 3. 200th " >> > 4. 300th " >> > 5. Do something special for the 1000th. >> > 6. etc. >> > >> > Those are just suggestions. The prizes could be anything. Just an idea to >> > juice things up and hopefully sell more CDs. I find OpenBSD extremely useful >> > and I want to see it grow and prosper... even in hard economic times. That's >> > why I bring this up again. >> >> I don't so much like the "prize" idea, but maybe have developer signed >> posters or CDs for extra $$$ and maybe in limited number of units per >> release. > > Oh yeah, that's a great idea! > > We can take a poster and ship it from Milk River to 20 developers > around the world (say Netherlands, France, UK, Switzerland, Japan, > Australia, Sweden, etc) step by step, and when each of them gets it he > can pull it out of the increasingly ratty looking poster tube, sign > it, slip it back -- add new postage -- and maybe the poster even > eventually makes it somewhere without getting lost... and guess what! > Someone can get it about 3 months later. B It's going to be the same > low price because we can have The Computer Shop and OpenBSD pay for > all the shipping costs to get that poster all the way around the > world! B Naw, we'd charge all the postage to the person who is silly > enough pay for a poster tube round-the-world trip, and we know the > project would not one cent extra.
Don't you guys get together few times a year for a marathon coding session? Sign a dozen posters then and hold'em off 'til the next release. Put a sticker price of $500 each (or more). Take a dozen posters to hackaton ($10/each) Take 10 minutes off to have devs sign them (= fun morale booster) Sell each poster for $500/each: Profit! or something like that ... > Or how about we just keep trying to make high quality software, and > hope that people support us for doing just that? > > I think that is a better plan. That's good also. --patrick
