EMEA out of swags

[Germano Massullo]

Good day.
Actually in EMEA there are no swags.
How is that possible that in the moment of a new Fedora release we
cannot organize a Fedora release party?

Best regards

[Brian (bex) Exelbierd]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 9:40 AM Germano Massullo <germano.massullo(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  Good day.
>  Actually in EMEA there are no swags.
>  How is that possible that in the moment of a new Fedora release we
>  cannot organize a Fedora release party? 

Swag is now served by Mindshare. You were sent swag for a generic release
party of 50. Can you help me understand what you think you should have
gotten?

We have swag and have been shipping it.

Regards,

bex



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[Justin W. Flory]

On 11/6/18 3:39 AM, Germano Massullo wrote:
>  Good day.
>  Actually in EMEA there are no swags.
>  How is that possible that in the moment of a new Fedora release we
>  cannot organize a Fedora release party?
>   
Hi Germano,

Did you file a ticket in the Mindshare repo to request any swag?

    https://pagure.io/mindshare

There are other tickets for release parties in Poland and Serbia that
requested and are receiving swag this week. For example:

    https://pagure.io/mindshare/issue/53

It is true there is no more swag in the Brno office, but until it is
replenished, shipments are currently arranged from the Red Hat Raleigh
headquarters.

Please don't let this be a blocker for you to organize a release party.
:-) There is definitely swag and budget available to help you organize a
release party for F29.

-- 
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[S.Kemter]

Hi,


Am 06.11.2018 um 17:50 schrieb Brian (bex) Exelbierd:
>  On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 9:40 AM Germano Massullo 
>  <germano.massullo(a)gmail.com <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>      Good day.
>      Actually in EMEA there are no swags.
>      How is that possible that in the moment of a new Fedora release we
>      cannot organize a Fedora release party?
>
>
>  Swag is now served by Mindshare. You were sent swag for a generic 
>  release party of 50. Can you help me understand what you think you 
>  should have gotten? 
Maybe I am the only one who realizes that or like most of the time the 
only one who says something to that.

Since when is that so? And more why? The production of swag was always 
in the hand of the regions and there was a good reason for that. Why 
swag has to produced in Europe for x times that much and then shipped 
adding even more costs. Not speaking of custom and postal troubles you 
have in some countries

br gnokii


>  We have swag and have been shipping it.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  bex
>
>
>
>
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[Sirko Kemter]

>  Hi,
>  
>  
>  Am 06.11.2018 um 17:50 schrieb Brian (bex) Exelbierd:
>  
>  Maybe I am the only one who realizes that or like most of the time the 
>  only one who says something to that.
>  
>  Since when is that so? And more why? The production of swag was always 
>  in the hand of the regions and there was a good reason for that. Why 
>  swag has to produced in Europe for x times that much and then shipped 
>  adding even more costs. Not speaking of custom and postal troubles you 
>  have in some countries 
I still waiting for an answer
> 
> br gnokii

[Germano Massullo]

Hi, please apologize me for the late reply

06/11/18 11:50, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
>  You were sent swag for a generic release party of 50. Can you help
> me
>  understand what you think you should have gotten? 
What do you mean with generic?

>  You were sent swag for a generic release party of 50. Can you help
> me
>  understand what you think you should have gotten? 
Well, swag always used to be made of:
- baseball hats;
- winter hats;
- Fedora polo shirt;
- Fedora pins;
- Fedora mugs;
- Fedora t-shirts;
- Fedora stickers in at least 3 different types

06/11/18 12:36, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>  Did you file a ticket in the Mindshare repo to request any swag?
>
>      https://pagure.io/mindshare 
Yes

>  Please don't let this be a blocker for you to organize a release
> party.
>  :-) There is definitely swag and budget available to help you organize a
>  release party for F29. 
The problem is that this is going to be a trend. Even the past year,
when I ordered swags for Linux day events in all Italy, we got an
insufficient amount of material. But this year the low amount of
material reached a ridiculous level.

[Silvia Sánchez]

Hello everyone,

For what is worth, I have a small box of swag sitting downstairs in
Stuttgart.  If anyone is in the area and needs swag, they can get it there
and it's probably going to be faster than opening a request.  So far, I
have some gloves, handbooks, DVDs  (old but well), tons of stickers of
about any kind, pins, transfers and something else I forgot.


Kind regards,
Silvia
FAS:  Lailah



On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 21:57, Germano Massullo <germano.massullo(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  Hi, please apologize me for the late reply
>
>  06/11/18 11:50, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
>
>  You were sent swag for a generic release party of 50. Can you help me
>  understand what you think you should have gotten?
>
>
>  What do you mean with generic?
>
>  You were sent swag for a generic release party of 50. Can you help me
>  understand what you think you should have gotten?
>
>
>  Well, swag always used to be made of:
>  - baseball hats;
>  - winter hats;
>  - Fedora polo shirt;
>  - Fedora pins;
>  - Fedora mugs;
>  - Fedora t-shirts;
>  - Fedora stickers in at least 3 different types
>
>  06/11/18 12:36, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>
>  Did you file a ticket in the Mindshare repo to request any swag?
>
>      https://pagure.io/mindshare
>
>
>  Yes
>
>  Please don't let this be a blocker for you to organize a release party.
>  :-) There is definitely swag and budget available to help you organize a
>  release party for F29.
>
>
>  The problem is that this is going to be a trend. Even the past year, when
>  I ordered swags for Linux day events in all Italy, we got an insufficient
>  amount of material. But this year the low amount of material reached a
>  ridiculous level.
>
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[Brian (bex) Exelbierd]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 10:58 PM Germano Massullo
<germano.massullo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi, please apologize me for the late reply
>
>  06/11/18 11:50, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
>
>  You were sent swag for a generic release party of 50. Can you help me understand what you
> think you should have gotten?
>
>
>  What do you mean with generic? 
In this case it means a party with no specific theme other than the release.

>  You were sent swag for a generic release party of 50. Can you help me
> understand what you think you should have gotten?
>
>
>  Well, swag always used to be made of:
>  - baseball hats;
>  - winter hats;
>  - Fedora polo shirt;
>  - Fedora pins;
>  - Fedora mugs;
>  - Fedora t-shirts;
>  - Fedora stickers in at least 3 different types 
We have been holding off on printing new swag pending the logo change
as we thought it would be done sooner.  Now that it isn't we can print
more items, but we need to understand how these items help us so we
print the right stuff, not just stuff.

>  06/11/18 12:36, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>
>  Did you file a ticket in the Mindshare repo to request any swag?
>
>      https://pagure.io/mindshare
>
>
>  Yes
>
>  Please don't let this be a blocker for you to organize a release party.
>  :-) There is definitely swag and budget available to help you organize a
>  release party for F29.
>
>
>  The problem is that this is going to be a trend. Even the past year, when I ordered swags
> for Linux day events in all Italy, we got an insufficient amount of material. But this
> year the low amount of material reached a ridiculous level. 
I reviewed the ticket and the event report and don't see where was it
mentioned that there wasn't enough swag or that there were problems.
I am sorry to hear this feedback so long after the event.  We based
the shipment on the number of estimated attendees and standard swag
distribution patterns in the absence of other information.

An ongoing and open question about swag is how we can use it to
further our goals and not just as a way of giving away items with no
known return.  The general thinking I've heard from others is that
things like stickers are great give-aways and basically are branding.
Other items, when used with a plan, can be good for converting users
and contributors.  If we are wanting to do swag for our existing
contributors, we should probably do special items for them as many of
them have our stickers and other items.

As an example, there is an open request for a few non-stickers to use
with a quiz at a release party.  We are trying to figure out how to
fulfill that request now.

regards,

bex

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