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Subject:    Re: AW: [kde-promo] Fwd: Linux World Expo, NYC
From:       "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle () danka ! de>
Date:       2004-01-01 22:58:28
Message-ID: 3FF4A614.4030701 () danka ! de
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Waldo Bastian wrote:

> On Thu January 01 2004 22:29, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 
> > In fact this is an *excellent*, *brilliant* opportunity! It is a
> > marvellous offer to make to KDE -- even if it is a very cheap laptop!
> > 
> > Imagine the ballyhoo and publicity and exposure you can create with
> > that one "story" for the visitors of the event. imagine how many
> > stories would pick it up when reporting from LWE... We could have a
> > "dot" story in advance and we can have an interview with the happy
> > winner later. We can have a dot story with the sponsor (and we should
> > make him enter his data into "enterprise.kde.org" also, of course!)
> 
> 
> Yup, excellent opportunity to create press.
> 
> 
> > If we could make a similar sum at CeBIT with just the live-CD, one
> > should be able to make such a sum with a CD plus a raffle with
> > a KDE laptop to win! One could have 2 people going round that
> > exhibition and sell "1 CD for 5.- $US" and "1 CD + 1 raffle ticket:
> > 10.- $US". 
> 
> 
> No, no.

Yes, yes.    ;-)

I have seen me doing this, and that makes me so confident. The point
is, that by "going round" you will also reach people who are probably
too busy to come to the booth, because they run their own. (But, of
course, to be able to have 1 or 2 people "going round", you need to
have enough man- and/or womanpower present in the first place....)

But of course I agree with your suggestions underneath also. You go
round and try to get as many people as possible to visit the KDE booth,
sure. But no problem getting 10 $US out of them while you talk and
hand them over a CD.

> You go around and give out leaflets that tell people that they can win 
> a laptop if they visit the KDE booth (together with a "what is KDE?" 101) 
> When you have them at the booth you tell them about KDE, that it is an all 
> volunteer organisation and talk them into giving a donation.

If at any rate possible, presentations at the boot should be made
with a microfon, and a "beamer" (how do you say in English? "video
data projector"?), so that 20-50 people can follow it at once. These
can be very short (like 3-5 minutes), but taking place every 30 minutes,
while you have like 2-4 major presentations during the day....

> After they have 
> listened to you, regardless of donation, they can get a raffle ticket, after 
> all you can give away as many of those as you like. If they already use KDE 
> they may be inclined to give a donation after your talk, if they don't know 
> KDE you just successfully introduced them and can reward them with a raffle 
> ticket to confirm the "KDE is cool" impression. If they are just their to win 
> the laptop, well at least they have heard about KDE now, give them their 
> damned raffle ticket so that they go away and that you can concentrate on 
> people who are truly interested.
> 

The one point I don't agree is that we shouldn't give away the raffle
ticket for free. At least some sort of absolute minimum should be 1.-$US.
We could say, "1.- $US minimum, but if you want to show your support for
KDE, we'd like to ask you for 5.- $US or more, if you can afford...."
I have *experience* that this works very well.

My heart would be bleeding if a person won that laptop which hadn't
found it worth to make at least a 1.- $US donation to KDE...

Cheers,
Kurt

 
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