On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Max Spevack <mspevack(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> 20:01 < gregdek> We produced about 2500 CDs/DVDs for NA for
Fedora 9.
> 20:01 < gregdek> Is that a good number? A bad number? No idea. We
> pulled it right out of our ass with what budget we had left.
> 20:02 < lxmaier_home> that cost us what? 3000?
No, that's wrong. We produced 3,000 Live CDs and 2,000 DVDs. 5,000 total
media for $8,175. It was not fantastic. This company did a great job for
F8, but their prices went up and their quality went down for F9, so that's
that.
Here's my problem -- in Q3, people in North America are going to want media
again. If we spend $8,000 on media for NA out of a total FAMSCo budget of
$12-15k, then what the heck is the rest of the world going to do? And how
will we have money for subsidizing travel and actually getting people to
shows?
My take: no more mass production of media. The artwork for each release
needs to be on the wiki, and when an Ambassador gets $1,000 of budget for
his event, he should be able to go to Karlie (or someone) and say "send me
$400 worth of media".
Why not just push USB sticks more? Perhaps we need to invest enough
money into a head fund of 200 USB sticks for a couple of regions, and
give people the chance to buy USB sticks like we did in LinuxTag.
Then the funds from that can be used to set up a few more regions with
a pool of resellable USB sticks.
As for free distribution, polish Kobold up a bit, so we can start
doing more USB Fueling stations. I think this might be more cost
effective in the long run.
-Yaakov