Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice Business cards

On 01/17/2013 07:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Eliane and Italo
>
> Le 2013-01-17 06:06, Italo Vignoli a écrit :
> > On 1/17/13 5:04 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> >
> > > We have a list of these items on our Conference kit page[2]. We have a
> > > booth at Scale that we will need to help organize for Jean.
> >
> > The BoD has just agreed to use MOO minicards for BoD and MC members, so
> > Jean will receive her business cards for SCALE.
> >
> > If you want to have a look at the layout, you can find it here:
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116590/minicards.pdf (just look at the visual
> > layout). We have agreed to use the following standard title: Member,
> > Board of Directors instead of Director, xxx, as in the example.
>
> Eliane: Thanks. Once you upload the source files I will put up a link 
> to them.
>
> Italo: Thanks. Could I upload this to the wiki and then link to it on 
> the wiki resources page? If you use if for BoD and MC members, could 
> we also expand it for use by TDF members and conference business 
> cards? Then we would all carry the same cards and this would add to 
> the visibility of our brand.
>
> BTW ... I know that we are not to print business cards freely, I just 
> want to leave examples on the wiki resources page so that we can refer 
> to these the next time someone asks about them. We are normally asked 
> about them close to conference times when people are busy.
>
> BTW .. I have been looking at VistPrint which serves both the N. & S. 
> Americas and Europe[1]. They also sell conference booth materials, 
> swag, clothing and other marketing items that seems reasonably priced. 
> We could purchase from them as well. If we approached them, they may 
> give us corporate discount if we were to purchase all our items from 
> them. Their printing locations are in Windsor, Canada (next the the US 
> border), you can virtually yell across the river to our American 
> cousins from there, and, Venlo IT. They also have an office in Paris.[2]
>
> It looks like they could serve a good part of our needs in these 
> geographical areas. We would have to find another service such as them 
> for the Asian, Arabian, African etc. markets. But it looks like 
> VistaPrint could also serve these markets as well.
>
> IMO, VistaPrint would be a good choice of supplier for the 
> TDF/LibreOffice. We have been talking about a TDF/LibreOffice store 
> for quite a while, and I think it would be more efficient to get 
> VistaPrint to work out a TDF/LibreOffice group of products that could 
> support our needs. IMO we would not be efficient enough to support a 
> LibreOffice store, we just lack the manpower to do this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
> [1] www.vistaprint.ca
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistaprint

We've been using Vistaprint for several year now.

Mostly for business card runs (250/per) but, also, some swag (e.g. pens, 
t-shirts, bags).  Overall, apart from the t-shirts, we've been happy 
with the quality of the runs.  As well, they've been very responsive to 
emailed inquiries.  The only, slight, downside in all of this has been 
their pricing structure: it's not what I'd call fully 'transparent'.  
I'm not saying it's bad but, for example, they might still charge for 
uploading custom images.

I'm guessing no one's heard of an "open source friendly" print shop, 
similar to World Label?
http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/pageinformation.htm

fyi,
-Craig



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