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

[Michael Paoli]

Quoting jim stockford <jim at well.com>:

> 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.

A technicality - I'd be inclined to include the trailing / on the URL, i.e.:
http://www.balug.org/

I was thinking we could possibly do a custom URL associated with the
cookie - but that's probably more trouble than it's worth, ... I was thinking
instead around the time of LinuxWorld (and for a while thereafter) "we"(/I)
could change the web page a bit, ... I was thinking roughly redo the logo
at the top a bit, ... with a fortune cookie, and have that be a link to
some more information on the idea behind the fortune cookie and such.
Could still have the Four Seas Restaurant logo atop the fortune cookie -
still fits in well with Chinatown/Chinese theme.

untangle.com will have their stuff printed on one side (
website and tagline or two, likely:
The Open Source Network Gateway
www.untangle.com
)
and we'll have BALUG stuff printed on the other side.

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

untangle.com is in it for at least 1,000 cookies.  We can probably
stretch that to around 1,500 cookies based on what some BALUG folks
have said they'll contribute.  More $$ contributed will cover more cookies.
For that quantity, we're roughly around $300 per 1,000 cookies, or figure
$0.30 per cookie (that's cookie with custom printed fortune, each individually
wrapped - since we'll be handing 'em out to folks).