[TOS] SIGCSE is coming, who wants swag?

[Mel Chua]

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