Thread: oscon booth report - more details.
Link to my post to -general listing the booth volunteers: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-07/msg01076.php Booth photos from flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitpusher/2696574958/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/seokchanyun/2698606943/ That is our groovy new folding banner in the background. It collapses down into a hard case approximately the size of a tuba, with rolling wheels for easy transpo. It's a bit awkward for someone of my size but not unmanageable. Two people makes it easier. Swag: - We sold a lot of shirts. I did not keep an inventory & am basing that conclusion on the amount of money we had in the cash box and the fact that the remaining shirts fit in a single box. - The USB keys did not do as well as we'd hoped. People really wanted them as a freebie. - We threw in a tin of M&Ms with t-shirt or usb key purchase. This seemed to work well. - The stickers were a big hit again & we were out of them by midway through the second day. - The bags remain a popular item. - I believe we successfully deployed all of the EnterpriseDB mugs. Two things I didn't get to do that I wanted to: - Temporary tattoos. I couldn't find a merchant that looked trustworthy & would make a run of less than 1000. I have some other contacts for this item & will continue to look into it. - List of Pg-related talks at OSCON. This was on my list of things to prep and I let it slip. I'll try that again next time. Thanks again to everyone who helped out. gabrielle
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:14 PM, gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks again to everyone who helped out. Thank you, Gabrielle, for running the booth! You did an amazing job. -selena
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM, gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com> wrote: > > - I believe we successfully deployed all of the EnterpriseDB mugs. I've still got one, if anybody needs it... ;) Well done, Gabrielle! :) ---Michael Brewer mbrewer@gmail.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 > The USB keys did not do as well as we'd hoped. People really > wanted them as a freebie. Yes, I still think that's what we should do. It's silly to charge for a USB key. How many do we have left anyway? - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200807282231 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAkiOgRMACgkQvJuQZxSWSsg5wACgibr9alH8jsYxarAz5PkNiUN/ RPcAnR9deNmcumVM0XulktE1lvk2ry+5 =OePJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 02:32 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > The USB keys did not do as well as we'd hoped. People really > > wanted them as a freebie. > > Yes, I still think that's what we should do. It's silly to charge > for a USB key. How many do we have left anyway? Well it is the same cost as the "Make" booth was asking for theirs (according to Mbrewer). However, what I was thinking was that we put a shirt, tote and key all together for 25.00. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
Josh, > Well it is the same cost as the "Make" booth was asking for theirs > (according to Mbrewer). However, what I was thinking was that we put a > shirt, tote and key all together for 25.00. Hmmm. I thought the idea of the USB keys was to load them up with software, maybe a bootable demo image. Then give them to "special people" in terms of genuine interest. Also, we appear to be almost out of shirts. I seem to recall mentioning that they wouldn't "sell" on their own with some booths giving away USB keys for the price of listening to a sales pitch. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL San Francisco
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 20:33 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Josh, > > > Well it is the same cost as the "Make" booth was asking for theirs > > (according to Mbrewer). However, what I was thinking was that we put a > > shirt, tote and key all together for 25.00. > > Hmmm. I thought the idea of the USB keys was to load them up with software, > maybe a bootable demo image. Then give them to "special people" in terms of > genuine interest. Yes, due to circumstances outside the booths control, that didn't happen. > > Also, we appear to be almost out of shirts. > Yes which we knew. > I seem to recall mentioning that they wouldn't "sell" on their own with some > booths giving away USB keys for the price of listening to a sales pitch. At this point we can do whatever we want, they are paid for but remember, they cost the same as a shirt. Joshua D. Drake > -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
Josh, > At this point we can do whatever we want, they are paid for but > remember, they cost the same as a shirt. Well, they won't go bad. I'd suggest holding on to them until we can do something really useful with them. -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL San Francisco
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > Josh, > >> At this point we can do whatever we want, they are paid for but >> remember, they cost the same as a shirt. > > Well, they won't go bad. I'd suggest holding on to them until we can do > something really useful with them. I've been playing with getting Ubuntu to boot on one. I picked Ubuntu because I found the most help with setting up a persistent install on them. I'm not picky so other pointers welcome for other distros. I will continue experimenting, but I only have 1 of the usb drives though. Any change the rest are still in the Portland area? I figure a few more would be more than enough to play with a couple of distros. Regards, Mark