[balug-talk] We're on for BALUG fortune cookies at LinuxWorld Expo!

[jim stockford]

A) Bay Area Linux Users Group
http://www.balug.org
Meets monthly in Chinatown SF
* is there only one side printed? If so, something
along the lines of the above. Can the other side
be printed? If so, something extolling open source.

B) what amount is needed beyond what the commercial
sponsor will provide (and who's the commercial
sponsor so's we can say "Thanks!")?


On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Michael Paoli wrote:

> We're on for BALUG fortune cookies at LinuxWorld Expo!
>
> As mentioned earlier (e.g.:
> http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-July/ 
> 000385.html
> et seq.
> )
> we've been looking at doing custom fortune cookies to be handed out
> at LinuxWorld Expo.
>
> Most urgently needed (hopefully we can get this wrapped up by
> Monday morning),
>
> A) What exactly do we want printed on the "fortune" (BALUG stuff will
> be printed on one side of the "fortune" in the cookie).  Based on
> earlier information, we probably have at most line length of 32
> characters to work with, and max of 3 lines.  It might be a bit less
> than that - so plan/think conservatively space-wise.  Also, for 3  
> lines,
> think of priority and ordering - so if we have to drop it to 2 lines,  
> we
> know which line to drop out.  I was thinking perhaps, for the 1st and  
> last
> line:
> Bay Area Linux Users Group
> http://www.balug.org/
> perhaps (hopefully :-)) folks can think of brilliant ideas for one more
> line between those - presuming we want to and can and/or improvements  
> to
> those lines.  I was thinking for additional line - presuming we can do  
> 3 -
> to go between those two of possibly:
> Chinatown, San Francisco
> or:
> meets in Chinatown, SF
> Anyway, please let us know your thoughts/ideas
>
> B) we've got one commercial (open source based) sponsor to well help  
> out
> with costs, but we're also looking for funding and specific pledge  
> amounts
> from individual contributors.  If you can and will contribute to this,
> we'd like to know exactly how much - so we can adjust the order size  
> to match
> funding.  To let us know on funding contributions and pledge amount,
> send an e-mail to: balug-fortune-cookie-funding at balug.org
> (if you're looking at this in list archive, you may need to change
> " at " back into the at sign).  Also let us know if you want
> to be individually named as a contributor, or if you just want to be
> part of the not individually named "and other BALUG contributors".
> We'll almost certainly have some flyer (or mini-flyer - might be 1/4  
> sheet)
> that has some more information about BALUG to be passed out with the
> cookies (and will also continue to be distributed after the cookies
> run out) and may also put some of that information on the BALUG web  
> site.
>
> Looks like we'll probably have fairly well over 1,000 cookies to  
> distribute.
> Exactly how many will probably depend on specific funding/pledges  
> (current
> guestimate is >~= 1,500 cookies).
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