Event Box Revisited

[Jeffrey Tadlock]

One of the topics that has come up in the weekly Fedora Marketing
meetings is the topic of the Event Box [1].  The event box is an idea,
heavily borrowed from the GNOME Project, that could make organizing a
booth at an event much easier for an Ambassador.  It would be a decent
sized shipping container that contained the basic materials necessary
to organize and run a Fedora booth at a small to mid-sized event.  For
larger events it would be starting point, but would probably need
supplemented by additional materials.  The items currently suggested
for an event box are listed on the wiki page [1].

Shipping a box of this size is not cheap, so if successful there would
likely be an event box assigned to a major region - based on the
success of the first event box.  Even though the cost of shipping is
high, I think it will allow an ambassador to free up time to get other
event preparation done without the need to track down basic materials
for every event.  It also helps make sure that a Fedora Booth at any
event at least has the basics covered.  It seems we repeat a lot of
work for every event we do (at least it seems that way for events in
North America).

> From the marketing meeting we wanted to bring this discussion up again
with the Ambassadors.  Please visit the Event Box wiki page [1] and
read up on it if you have not seen the proposal before.  It covers
more of the details than I have here.  Once you have done that, please
comment on whether you would find an event box useful in your event
preparation.  And also feel free to suggest changes to the contents of
the box as well.

Thanks!
Jeffrey

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventBox

[Robert M. Albrecht]

Hi,

the KDE event box is regional only too.

It contains posters, ... and a display, keyboard, ... but not a PC.

I would advice against including hardware in the Fedora event box. HW adds 
some heavy weight and everyone has a laptop or PC availiable, so I don´t 
think shipping a PC aroun is very usefull.

After Cebit we shipped the KDE eventbox from Cebit (Hannover Germany) to 
Bern (Switzerland) which costs 220 Euros.

Problem is, on the Hannover fair grounds, Fedex has an exclusive contract 
as shipping partner. So we had no choice but to use the very expensive 
Fedex service.

If we ship the box five times a year, we have about 1000 Euros. For that 
amount of money we could simply equip all ambassadors with a collection of 
posters, ... and create a very small and leightweight event box (perhaps 
including an OLPC ...)

cu romal



Jeffrey Tadlock schrieb:
>  One of the topics that has come up in the weekly Fedora Marketing
>  meetings is the topic of the Event Box [1].  The event box is an idea,
>  heavily borrowed from the GNOME Project, that could make organizing a
>  booth at an event much easier for an Ambassador.  It would be a decent
>  sized shipping container that contained the basic materials necessary
>  to organize and run a Fedora booth at a small to mid-sized event.  For
>  larger events it would be starting point, but would probably need
>  supplemented by additional materials.  The items currently suggested
>  for an event box are listed on the wiki page [1].
>  
>  Shipping a box of this size is not cheap, so if successful there would
>  likely be an event box assigned to a major region - based on the
>  success of the first event box.  Even though the cost of shipping is
>  high, I think it will allow an ambassador to free up time to get other
>  event preparation done without the need to track down basic materials
>  for every event.  It also helps make sure that a Fedora Booth at any
>  event at least has the basics covered.  It seems we repeat a lot of
>  work for every event we do (at least it seems that way for events in
>  North America).
>  
> > >From the marketing meeting we wanted to bring this discussion up again
>  with the Ambassadors.  Please visit the Event Box wiki page [1] and
>  read up on it if you have not seen the proposal before.  It covers
>  more of the details than I have here.  Once you have done that, please
>  comment on whether you would find an event box useful in your event
>  preparation.  And also feel free to suggest changes to the contents of
>  the box as well.
>  
>  Thanks!
>  Jeffrey
>  
>  [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventBox
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[Jason Fenner]

I think that it's a good idea.  However, it would be good to get some
estimates on what the shipping costs would be.  Also, do you have any
numbers that show how often more then one event happens simultaneously in a
region?


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[Jeffrey Tadlock]

2008/6/4 Jason Fenner <axelilly(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  I think that it's a good idea.  However, it would be good to get
> some
>  estimates on what the shipping costs would be.  Also, do you have any
>  numbers that show how often more then one event happens simultaneously in a
>  region? 
I did guesstimate at shipping costs.  From a somewhat central location
shipping of an 85 pound box would cost between $63 and $90 for most
continental US locations - not including additional insurance.  This
also does not include any possible discounts that someone's employer
might let them piggyback on.

I did take a quick look at the North American Events list.  For the
most part it looks pretty doable scheduling wise.  There is one busy
stretch in July where it might not be possible to make the box
available for all events due to not being enough time between events.

There is another time in October where some events are close together,
but all in the Ohio, Pennsylvania, Toronto area that we could probably
pull it off since the distance between events isn't quite as large.

Thanks!
Jeffrey

[Robert M. Albrecht]

Hi,

at least in Germany we don't get any problems due to simultaneously events.

International shipping would be much more expensive. And if we include HW, 
we get into troubles with power cords, 110/230V, taxes and tool, ...

I would recommand a light-box with some rare or very expensive items like
  an OLPC.

Other items should simply be produced and shipped to all event-guys. 
Printing posters, stickers, ... is so cheap, shipping simply is to expensive.

If someone has some templates (posters, flyer, sticker, ...) to print, I 
ask my friend (he`s working in a printing factory specialized on marketing 
stuff) for a good price to produce this stuff.

I can then ship the materials to the people.

I can also buy a box to create a light event-box for Germany. What should 
be included ?

cu romal

www.romal.de
blog.romal.de


Jason Fenner schrieb:
>  I think that it's a good idea.  However, it would be good to get
> some 
>  estimates on what the shipping costs would be.  Also, do you have any 
>  numbers that show how often more then one event happens simultaneously 
>  in a region?
>  
>  
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