[Ambassadors] Re: Fedora 9 CD/DVDs

[David Nalley]

2008/7/30 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 22:39 +0200, Gerold Kassube wrote:
>> LUCA ...
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, den 30.07.2008, 21:55 +0200 schrieb Luca Foppiano:
>> > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:28 +0200, Max Spevack wrote:
>> >
>> > > I can help make sure that you get some Fedora 9 Live CDs.  How many do
>> > > you think you will need?
>> >
>> > we wish to have about 1000 cd/dvds, but only just printed CD...
>> > in my previous email I meant I didn't want fedora spends money to
>> > print fedora 9 cds ;-)
>> ^^
>> for sure?????? ONE Thousand DvDs???? We burned for Linuxtag with more
>> than 10.000 visitors, and three other events 600 ....
>
> Gerold -- I don't know if this is on the Ambassadors areas of the wiki
> somewhere, but it's very useful information.  If Ambassadors have some
> guidelines for how many pieces of media they should consider requesting,
> it helps in the overall budget planning as well.
>
> It may not be as simple as saying "1 CD for every {5,10,...} people."
> For some small events, it makes sense to have 1 piece of media for each
> person.  For some larger ones, the ratio may need to be smaller if we
> want to stay within budget!
>
> This would be a useful thing to consider drafting and having the
> Ambassador community think about.  I don't think it needs to be an
> absolute rule, but rather a guideline for planning.
>
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Indeed - we should add a field to the Events and Archived Events page
to denote money and media and swag handed out - that would be
tremendously useful for future planning.