Hey List,
After some discussion, Alex C. and i would like to put together the first EMEA Event Box. I've talked to Max and he's OKed it from a budget and shipping perspective. If there is another one in the works, it may not be a bad thing to have two floating around in any case.
The timeline is to plan it out over the next couple of weeks and come up with a good idea of what we want to put in it between now and LinuxTag. We plan on debuting it at Hacking At Random 2009, where we will likely need many of the components in it. Here's a tentative list of things we will want to put on it. Anything with an asterix next to it is something that would be very helpful to have at HAR.
Box * Projector * Projector Screen * Video Camera * Wireless Router (Preferably running Linux) * A handful of CDs to make booths look pretty USB sticks with the latest up to date respins of all the LiveCD isos. Stickers galore Some Tshirts A Fedora branded party tent * UTP Cable UTP crimper (?) Packet of leaflets to handout XO (?)
And we'll probably go through the list of odds and ends that are on the wiki for the other two event boxes, things such as pens, banners, hooks, etc...
Any comments?
-Yaakov
Am Montag 15 Juni 2009 11:55:17 schrieb Yaakov Nemoy:
After some discussion, Alex C. and i would like to put together the first EMEA Event Box. I've talked to Max and he's OKed it from a budget and shipping perspective. If there is another one in the works, it may not be a bad thing to have two floating around in any case.
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And we'll probably go through the list of odds and ends that are on the wiki for the other two event boxes, things such as pens, banners, hooks, etc...
Any comments?
We have a lot of this material you have suggested, but the very high cross- border shipping costs stopped us from put this in a Shipping Container. read about our first attempt here: http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/FAD3.pdfpage 25-27
The best way to set it up seems the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventBox
Thanks Yaakov to start this again - but i am sceptical as long as we have no partner for shipping this box around europe. Maybe this should be clarified first.
cu Joerg
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Joerg Simon wrote:
Thanks Yaakov to start this again - but i am sceptical as long as we have no partner for shipping this box around europe. Maybe this should be clarified first.
In North America, we have a shipping account that bills directly to my Red Hat credit card. Perhaps we can do the same thing in Europe (either to my credit card, or to Fedora EMEA e.V.), and when we make our quarterly budgets, we make sure we consider what the shipping costs will be.
I'm happy to automatically bill things to my credit card, but if I ever leave Red Hat, then it will all have to change. I don't know if it is possible for Fedora EMEA e.V. to pay these shipping costs via online payments. Maybe that would be a good solution, that doesn't "depend" on any one person.
Thoughts?
--Max
2009/6/15 Joerg Simon jsimon@fedoraproject.org:
Am Montag 15 Juni 2009 11:55:17 schrieb Yaakov Nemoy:
After some discussion, Alex C. and i would like to put together the first EMEA Event Box. I've talked to Max and he's OKed it from a budget and shipping perspective. If there is another one in the works, it may not be a bad thing to have two floating around in any case.
...
And we'll probably go through the list of odds and ends that are on the wiki for the other two event boxes, things such as pens, banners, hooks, etc...
Any comments?
We have a lot of this material you have suggested, but the very high cross- border shipping costs stopped us from put this in a Shipping Container. read about our first attempt here: http://jsimon.fedorapeople.org/FAD3.pdfpage 25-27
The best way to set it up seems the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventBox
Thanks Yaakov to start this again - but i am sceptical as long as we have no partner for shipping this box around europe. Maybe this should be clarified first.
The slides seem to ask the same question i posed to Max last week.
I suppose the question is then, are there still high shipping tarifs between EU and/or European nations? Ideally it would be nice to have this Event Box available for all of EMEA, but if we can only manage EU for now, that will have to do. The second question is, like Max said, who wants to handle the paperwork, Fedora EMEA or Red Hat. Either way, the NA ambassadors have it mostly taken care of via Max.
FWIW, my two cents are on having Fedora EMEA handle the banking side of shipping. I will bring this up at the next meeting.
-Yaakov
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