[Penguicon-Concom] Set up appropriate to Technical conferences

[Tracy Worcester]

I might be able to take point on this; I did some of this during my
incaranation as a software marketing person.

If that means it is now my job, what is the minimum number we want, and
what's the rough budget we want to give to this?  They'd also make good
giveaways for events like Ohio Linuxfest and the like.  FWIW, I would *not*
be buying the absolute cheapest option - that gets you pens where one in ten
don't write properly to start with.  But I would do my best to be cost
effective.

...Tracy

On 7/6/06, john guest <phecda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think this falls under "sales and marketing".
>
> On 7/6/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/6/06, Anne KG Murphy <akgmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I was just at a couple conferences in a row for work, and I wrote a
> > > note to myself at one of them that Penguicon should have classroom
> > > tables, notepads, and pens set out for the attendees for some of the
> > > tech tracks at penguicon.  Even if we don't put out classroom tables,
> > > I noted that the smaller rooms at one conference still had a pile of
> > > notepads and pens on the water station at the back of the room, so
> > > people had something to take notes with.
> > >
> > > These were just little notepads and pens provided by the hotel. I
> > > wonder if it would be worth it for Penguicon to look into getting this
> > > service from our hotel?
> > >
> > > Alternatively, and as another point, pens are not that expensive a
> > > printed giveaway (at least, they weren't when Bill and I made a batch
> > > for our wedding) - we could have pens specific to penguicon, with the
> > > website URL on them and such.
> > >
> > > It just seems like professional technical conferences have this.  not
> > > sure if we're still hoping to some day have that during-the-day-friday
> > > hard core technical track again, but if we want to be viewed as a
> > > technical conference (in part), maybe we should have some of the
> > > vestiges of one.
> > >
> > > best,
> > >
> > > --Anne
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> > That sounds great. Is this my job? Or is that "Programming Ops"? For
> > that matter, am I "Programming Ops"? Just let me know.
> > -Matt
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