[Ambassadors] Re: Fedora 9 CD/DVDs

[Francesco Ugolini]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, David Nalley wrote:

> 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.
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Right, we need one. We have a public page with global events total expense 
but, as i know, we haven't a page with all pasts quarter outcomes. We 
have, moreover, a page for the past events (see 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents), we could repeat 
something similar. Thanks!

Best regards

Francesco Ugolini