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

[jim stockford]

    If more $$ == more cookies, count me in for
$50, but i want to be sure I get a couple to eat.
jim

On Jul 22, 2007, at 2:35 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:

> 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).
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