[TOS] SIGCSE is coming, who wants swag?
de Lanerolle, Trishan R.
Trishan.deLanerolle at trincoll.edu
Fri Feb 11 20:43:08 UTC 2011
Hi Mel,
Sounds like a great idea. The HFOSS 2011 program is coming together nicely. We have a diverse set of speakers from Academia and industry this year. Check out the line up at http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2011/?q=speakers . Should be a good event.
I wanted to encourage you to bring along and distribute some of the "TOS" swag at the event. Hope to see you and other TOS members at HFOSS 2011 on March 9th in Dallas.
Bye,
Trishan
Trishan de Lanerolle
Project Director
Humanitarian FOSS Project
Computer Science, Trinity College, Hartford CT.
(860) 297 5313
http://www.hfoss.org
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From: tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org [tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org] on behalf of Mel Chua [mel at redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:20 PM
To: TOS
Subject: [TOS] SIGCSE is coming, who wants swag?
SIGCSE is coming up in less than a month. More immediately, I've got to
file all fiscal year 2010 Red Hat expenses by the end of next Friday
(2/18), so I'm trying to get all SIGCSE swag purchases in before then.
One thing I want to offer is sets of TOS business cards for people
who'll be at SIGCSE - these aren't intended to replace your
institutional business card, but rather complement them and help answer
the repeated questions that we tend to get about our TOS activities so
we don't have to keep writing out the URL, etc...
Imagine being able to hand out something like this alongside your normal
business card:
+-----------------------------------------+
| <your name goes here> |
| <your institution and position> |
| http://teachingopensource.org |
| |
| Involving students as contributors |
| to open source communities as part |
| of their academic experience |
| |
| To get started, join our mailing list: |
| <link to list signup URL> |
| POSSE faculty workshop: |
| <link to POSSE URL>
| |
| My class: <class URL> |
+-----------------------------------------+
Obviously this will have graphics and such, but it is still a pretty
boring design. Thoughts on improving it welcome (do we not need to put
your institution name on here? should the POSSE URL be there? what FAQs
have you gotten? etc.)
If you want a bunch of these, give me the info you want on your cards by
the end of Wednesday, whatever your timezone is, because I will be
placing orders Thursday afternoon EST. You'll be able to grab your cards
from me or Sebastian at SIGCSE, I'll have them all shipped to our hotel
(and yes, we'll be at the HFOSS symposium).
You do NOT need to be a professor to get these! (Heck, I'm not a
professor and I'm getting them...) But you do have to be coming to
SIGCSE, at least for this round. We'll see how the experiment goes then
and consider making more for other folks afterwards if these are a hit.
What other sorts of SIGCSE TOS swag would be most useful? Some
brainstorming results from Max and Sebastian:
* Posters (with what design?)
* Flyers (with what design?)
* Info packets (with what design?)
* TOS whiteboard markers (we made these for the first POSSE and again
for LinuxCon - they say "should this be on the wiki?" along with the TOS
URL).
* TOS whiteboard erasers
* Get pony, paint TOS logo on it (...okay, probably over budget)
* TOS sticky notes
* TOS or POSSE-branded thumbdrives
By default, I'm going to go for whiteboard markers, flyers, and
POSSE-branded thumbdrives unless people go "noooo! bad idea!" or
"really, <this> would be more useful!" Note that we're *not* making
tshirts because everybody makes t-shirts and I think whiteboard markers
are more likely to be used frequently by faculty.
Thoughts? Card design thoughts, and/or requests for cards? Reply to the
list!
--M
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