Thread: Poster Distribution, also poster auction
All, I have 100 PostgreSQL 9.1 posters for promoting the new database version. I'd like to know where these should go. What conferences are coming up in the next 3 months which could distributed them to good effect? What I see is: Open Source Bridge (June, USA): no booth, so not much opporunity to use posters. Might give a couple away at PostgreSQL talks. CHAR(11) (July, Oxford): No way to get the posters there. OSCON (July, USA): pgDay. PostgreSQL Booth. Can use posters, send some to Portland Then we have three more: Postgres Open (September, USA) Postgres West (September, USA) pg.EU (October, Amsterdam) I think it would be fine to supply posters to any of these conferences, but I'd like to hear from organizers involved: How many posters can you actually use, and what would you do with them? Note that these cost us a bit in printing costs, so I'd like some of them to go for donations of $5 or $10. ================== Poster Auction We had all of the developers at the Developers meeting ... some 30 major contributors to PostgreSQL ... sign two of the 9.1 posters. One poster went at auction to Gavin Roy for $750 (which went to benefit the Japanese Red Cross). I still have the second poster. Unfortunately, I don't know any other event which has a terrific auctioneer like Dan to get a good price for it. It really needs to go for more than $200. As a result, I'm thinking of putting it on Ebay or another public auction site. That would let most of the world have a shot at acquiring this piece of PostgreSQL history. Thoughts? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > CHAR(11) (July, Oxford): No way to get the posters there. I'm guessing California has a postal service also? -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
On 06/06/2011 11:54 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > I have 100 PostgreSQL 9.1 posters for promoting the new database > version. I'd like to know where these should go. What conferences are > coming up in the next 3 months which could distributed them to good effect? > > What I see is: > > Open Source Bridge (June, USA): no booth, so not much opporunity to use > posters. Might give a couple away at PostgreSQL talks. > > CHAR(11) (July, Oxford): No way to get the posters there. > > OSCON (July, USA): pgDay. PostgreSQL Booth. Can use posters, send some > to Portland > > Then we have three more: > PgDay Denver > Postgres Open (September, USA) > Postgres West (September, USA) > pg.EU (October, Amsterdam) > -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ @cmdpromptinc - @postgresconf - 509-416-6579
On 6/6/11 12:07 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >> CHAR(11) (July, Oxford): No way to get the posters there. > > I'm guessing California has a postal service also? Lemme make that "no cost-effective way" to get the posters there. As in, it would cost more to ship them than it would for you to have new posters printed. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Monday, June 6, 2011, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 6/6/11 12:07 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> >>> CHAR(11) (July, Oxford): No way to get the posters there. >> >> I'm guessing California has a postal service also? > > Lemme make that "no cost-effective way" to get the posters there. > > As in, it would cost more to ship them than it would for you to have new > posters printed. Will you be bringing some to pgconf.eu yourself if we want them then? I expect postage to .nl will be similar to .uk. If so, please submit a talk or two :-) -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 6/6/11 12:07 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> >>> CHAR(11) (July, Oxford): No way to get the posters there. >> >> I'm guessing California has a postal service also? > > Lemme make that "no cost-effective way" to get the posters there. > > As in, it would cost more to ship them than it would for you to have new > posters printed. Have them printed in the UK, by purchasing via a UK website. e.g. http://print24.com/uk/product/posters/ That way, only HTML and money needs to travel. Thanks -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
Le 06/06/2011 21:46, Joshua D. Drake a écrit : > On 06/06/2011 11:54 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> All, >> >> I have 100 PostgreSQL 9.1 posters for promoting the new database >> version. I'd like to know where these should go. What conferences are >> coming up in the next 3 months which could distributed them to good >> effect? >> >> What I see is: >> >> Open Source Bridge (June, USA): no booth, so not much opporunity to use >> posters. Might give a couple away at PostgreSQL talks. >> >> CHAR(11) (July, Oxford): No way to get the posters there. >> >> OSCON (July, USA): pgDay. PostgreSQL Booth. Can use posters, send some >> to Portland >> >> Then we have three more: >> > > PgDay Denver > + PostgreSQL Session #2 (June, Paris) I guess we can handle the printing ourself. Can you send us the file ? >> Postgres Open (September, USA) >> Postgres West (September, USA) >> pg.EU (October, Amsterdam) >> > > > -- damien clochard dalibo.com | dalibo.org
Hi Josh, We have the Tecnologia Week in November. "We can get some or the Barner to print? -- Saludos, Gilberto Castillo Edificio Beijing. Miramar Trade Center. Etecsa. Miramar, La Habana.Cuba. --- This message was processed by Kaspersky Mail Gateway 5.6.28/RELEASE running at host imx2.etecsa.cu Visit our web-site: <http://www.kaspersky.com>, <http://www.viruslist.com>
On Jun 6, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > As a result, I'm thinking of putting it on Ebay or another public > auction site. That would let most of the world have a shot at acquiring > this piece of PostgreSQL history. Thoughts? +1. Would be very interesting to see if we could get it to beat the one auctioned at pgCon. (Crap, I still need to send Gavinthat shirt!) -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect jim@nasby.net 512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > I have 100 PostgreSQL 9.1 posters for promoting the new database > version. I'd like to know where these should go. What > conferences are coming up in the next 3 months which could > distributed them to good effect? > Note that these cost us a bit in printing costs, so I'd like some > of them to go for donations of $5 or $10. If someone wanted to obtain one or two by mail for such a donation plus mailing costs, would that be feasible? What would the total be, including postage (and packing materials, etc.)? -Kevin
All, Sorry for the delay. The poster designs are here: http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000089/13798/poster-final.pdf http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000089/13799/poster-final.ai Have fun! -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com