One place where money is needed is providing handouts for the major events. There are events planned world wide for Linux and other shows that LO could/should be a part of.
I know what it costs for creating DVD and brochures to hand out to people. I do it myself for my local area. Shows could be a place where you could hand out 50, 100, 200, or more DVDs with LO "stuff" on them, plus brochures, and the typical free marketing items that companies tend to give out to the people who visit their booths. I use to do such shows, either as a person working table for a group or just go to the shows. I cannot do this now, but I remember what it was like.
I know that an individual or small group cannot afford to pay for these discs, brochures, and other free handouts, by themselves unless they really have a well paying job. The costs of doing a good presentation at a show can be rather large. There was some talk about sending a "single" copy of a LO banner to the different lead persons of each show, to help reduce the costs for the table display. But LO could have a "display kit" that goes to every single show, to reduce the costs. BUT, each show would have the cost for handing out media discs and everything else that people expect a table to have for free.
Marketing expenses can be high.I sure do not have the money to spend if I was going to be sitting at a table for one of them and pay for the free handouts. I have enough to do just paying for all the DVDs, DVD movie cases, case inserts, and brochures, that I hand out to my local community. I print them up a few at a time with my DVD printer and my color laser printer. Thin DVD-Movie cases cost about 30 cents if you buy them in lots of 100 [shipping included] instead of buck or more if bought locally at 10 per box. I give out only as many as I can afford on my fixed income from my injuries forcing me to stop working a "normal job".
So maybe someone can provide how much it costs to do the shows, and then look into having some of those costs provided by some type of "marketing account".
On 03/10/2012 09:59 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
I should add that any request for books or money should say how the LO community might benefit, and why the requester (individual or group) is unable (or would find it difficult) to cover the cost themself. Each request will be considered on its merits, and no one should assume that any particular request would be approved or declined. Jean On 11/03/2012, at 11:17, Jean Weber<jeanweber@gmail.com> wrote:Dave. Yes, that's a common use of the money: sending copies of user guides to people for various promotional purposes. (And that way the books are paid for by the publisher -- FoOD -- at the wholesale price, not the retail price, typically saving more than enough to cover shipping.) Please send your request, with details of which book (there are several in the LO series), why wanted, address for delivery, etc) to info@friendsofopendocument.com. Allow at least 4 weeks for delivery. Mind you, the covers on the current books don't look very exciting or professional. The next set of books will have a really nice cover... if the Docs team ever finishes an update so FoOD can publish it! --Jean On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:00, Dave Johnson<davefilms.us@gmail.com> wrote:Can a marketing person request a printed LO user guide instead of money? I am approaching a Church School to adopt L O vice MSO. A book to show them in my presentation will help. On Mar 10, 2012 6:24 PM, "Jean Weber"<jeanweber@gmail.com> wrote:Hi Tom, Are you supporting or objecting to having local groups request some of the money that Friends of OpenDocument is holding? Jean On 11/03/2012, at 8:55, Tom Davies<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:Hi :) I thought the plan was to have "local teams", such as the Brazilian, orthe French or wherever, all administering their own finances and then giving maybe a flat rate as "Affiliation fees" or some such and then maybe a percentage too.My personal feeling is that Local teams need to work towards beingself-sufficient and it would be great if they can cover their own sundry costs without always having to discuss minutia and waiting for TDF's BoD to approve a sundry expense. I don't see any problem with Local Teams being affiliated to both OOo and LO at the same time now. I guess some funds may need to be restricted to one or the other but that is something for the bookkeeping records and end-of-year financial accounts.Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 10/3/12, ol klaus-jürgen weghorn<ol@sophia-louise.de>wrote:From: ol klaus-jürgen weghorn<ol@sophia-louise.de> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Funds available for marketingLibreOfficeTo: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 10 March, 2012, 8:18 Hi Jean, all, Am 10.03.2012 05:13, schrieb Jean Weber:Instead of giving the LO money to The Document Foundation for general expenses, we think it is better to make it available to cover expenses that The Document Foundation can't or won't deal with. Some examples might be the cost of marketing materials (including copies of the user guides) for tables at events, attendance at events aimed at potential and actual customers (librarians, educators, etc), or just about anything that would be valuable for spreading awareness and growing the community and the customer base.2 thoughts: - maybe interesting for the BoD-ml (board-discuss@documentfoundation.org)too.- maybe some part of the money for a travel refund (see point 12 of theBoD-tasks [1]? "We are not yet in a position to pay these"[1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Tasks --- Grüße k-j -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail tomarketing+help@global.libreoffice.orgProblems?http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot bedeleted-- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail tomarketing+help@global.libreoffice.orgProblems?http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot bedeleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted-- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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