<> ||<>|| == Discussion Points == === Logos === * Trademarks has approved the logos, John will post a poll on the forums. === Ubuntu Boxes === * Jon has created a small container with text and logos which will hold CDs: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GeorgiaUSTeam/Marketing?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=100_0465.JPG|see here]]. He will post instructions on creating them. * Bakey will be working on his design. * We will discuss possible locations to put these out to at the next meeting. === CD Label === * Matt is going to check with his boss if we can use their printer to print CD labels. == Log == {{{ bandb|laptop> ok, logos, I think ClinicalMistake found out that the logos we wanted to poll were all ok, right ClinicalMistake ? think he got a response from trademark@ saying it was ok. So someone needs to post the poll on the forum. anyone interested? I can do it jsvh: cool which ones are we putting in the poll? ummm... i think we had picked out some a couple meetings ago i think we chose the logos in one of our past meetings I think 2 or 3 by Clinical and 1 by nomasteryoda, right? i think its in the meeting logs sounds about right Bakey right... I'll give it a check ok, ubuntu boxes, I posted a picture of what some people are getting from canonical, the CDs come in a nice little box, take a look at the meetings page on the wiki I'm wondering if that should be integrated into the box designs we don't have to, it was just a random thought i have made a nice little box to go on top of tables I have also uploaded a pick to the wiki *picture I like it as for me, i've gotten ahold of some plexi and plan to start building sometime JonReagan: looks good Bakey: outstanding I just need to find a heat gun so I can bend it cool... not really sure where to get one, but cool ask heathen , he probably has every imaginable tool I think my uncle may have one...otherwise i may try with a small torch JonReagan: what is your box made off? will be able to hold a few CDs without toppling over? hey robertj i have tested the box, and it holds up... it is made out of regular computer paper hi robertj JonReagan: excellent hey robertj Classy howdy, how was yesterdays meetup? The drive back from SC took longer than expected & we couldnt make it back Jon, got a link to the pic? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GeorgiaUSTeam/Marketing?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=100_0465.JPG ummmm.... the pic is in the attatchments in the /marketing page lol... that was fast i had the page up oh ok, so JonReagan can you make a few more oh nice And make up a template :P sure, I can make quite a few I bet that'll work just fine for indoors...maybe printed on card stock the template is just one you print off your computer hmm I will upload it to the wiki I should get a box of shipit CDs and stow it in the student center waiting area at school -waiting area Cool, and some folding/gluing instructions? that's a good idea! it comes w/ the instructions :) nice I will include some notes, they sometimes can be confusing How close can CDs be to a microwave without them being damaged? MKR: anywhere but inside? :D I think they're OK as long as they're not inside although inside it quite entertaining lol *is Oh yeah Oh, marketing tool! ? Nah, never mind so it looks like we are in goodd here, JonReagan make a few more, Bakey will get us a prototype soon. good shape yeah I hope so and we should get CDs *soon* so we'll mail them out to Bakey and JonReagan I was going to suggest makign a video of someone microwaving a shipit CD, then "booting" the computer with it (though it'll already be installed, so it won't boot from the CD) But that would be dishonest :) lol cool... these boxes only require 1 piece of paper dishonest - but really fun! Bakey, JonReagan, do either of you need stickers? Think jsvh had some he could send to you I'd like some after I get my prototype built yea, I got a bunch from System 76 not at the moment... I don't have any places to put the CDs or the boxes ok, jsvh can you send them to Bakey ? the "powered by Ubuntu" stickers maybe as soon as I get one in place, I could use them to put in the cd cases yea, email me and let me know how many and where u want them sent to Bakey I'm surprised they don't ship them with the CDs ok, will do jsvh yeah. that would really be cool if they did MKR, think they shipped like 5 stickers with the CDs oh yeah, kinda dumb, oh well... ok, are we done with the boxes for now? Oh, one thing ok hangovers and lawn work do NOT mix lol! Does the GPL let a stoe owner chargea "stocking fee" for placing the CDs? It would be good for compelling them to stock them Like $1-3 I think so... I will have to find out MKR, you probably could, don't stop anyone from charging anything thats why people sell it on e sell linux CDs on ebay being the Gideon of Ubuntu CDs Id say theres no reason you cant charge That would be a good way to get owners of high-traffic shops to let you put them on their counter if you wanted to yeah, maybe like on a small table next to their door, or maybe on their register counter? MKR lets talk about once we have the boxes and we need to come up with a way of distributing them It'd be awesome to get them at the register where people check out ok I left a bunch in a barnes and noble once yeah! a girl came up to the counter and asked the girl how much it cost I nearly died in laughter yeah, lets put it on the agenda for next week nice lol... that's awsome yeah Bakey: don't the cds say something about ubuntu beeing free and to report people selling ship-it cds? mouments in Kingbahamut Greatness robertj_ I don't know, I ton't think so *don't i don't know... they probalby wouldn't mind having free cd's in their store, its like their AOL cds ooo, replace all AOL cds with Ubuntu ones It might be a last-resort step if they say no to distributing them for free (if it's ok with shipit) let me look at one of the shipit cds lol bakey AOL cds glorified coffee coaster lol... nice CompiledKernel - did you see where some guys made a chair out of AOL cds? I wouldn't waste the condensation on them :P you know BandB one of the other staff nothing on the shipit packaging says it can't be sold went down this road of distributing stuff I cant remember what mark said about it in the CC meeting that ensued after http://stupidco.com/aol_throne_finished.html cool... good news about the shipit CDs as well! we might not to be able to do the charging stuff, but we can hand them out to businesses sure... why not? ive found businesses to be unreceptive in the past have to be careful there I think mom & pop computer shops are likely to be the most receptive I think I may have some places in mind that we could place these yeah, this isn't going to work at best buy Yep robertj_ local shops usually are They would probably be happy to give away the cds with "naked" machines I have a list of probably 20 or so friendly local shops that would distribute or already do alright, we'll get together a list of potential stores robertj_ that might be a push, naked boxes with a free ubuntu cd not to be rude, but in the interest of moving on, didn't we say we'll discuss this next week after we get boxes from Jon and maybe a prototype from me? Bakey: good idea sure :D it will be on the agenda for nexdt week cool JonReagan: did you have some ideas about the dell thing yes The basic idea is that we could include some dell in our marketing Need to be careful here, last thing we want is a letter from Dell's lawyers yeah, could be tricky right... i'd have to email them first Good idea give them the final product, ect. AFAIK Dell situation is still lacking in details? yes, this would begin after the details are final I'd hold off Last I heard they will definitely be offering Ubuntu as an option on a couple of desktops and 1 laptop yup... that have an announcement on their site from what I hear , midrange desktop and 2 midrange laptops it would help ubuntu look more professional http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en& there it is! :) yeah, I think putting dell anywhere is going to be tricky http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&thread.id=8812 Ubuntu's all over Dell's websites/forums anyways, I think it would be a nice plus for our ubuntu marketing... that's basically all I have. (nice link!) I think it's safe to mention them in the same breath anyway yup *** robertj_ is now known as robertj any ideas on how to go about mentioning them? maybe the names, models of computers offered? Just be vague :P Hmmm, maybe something like "Coming soon on Dell computers" "supported by system builders!" might be a little while before we find out all that stuff That'd be the best thing Jon, but I don't think Dell has released that info yet Or "supported by major computer manufacturers!". :D not yet, but when they do... Yeah, when they do, it'd definitely be a good think to include with marketing materials and I don't see why Dell would have a problem with that, it's free advertising for them yeah... especially since a lot of people do not upgrade, and just buy a new computer Bakey, companies sometimes get upset when people try to market for them Without asking, that is I'll email them as soon as they release more info ok...next... approval stuff...nothing really...lets do the boxes and then we'll apply feisty CDs...we are just waiting at this point and oncce we get approved we can get a lot more CDs has anyone seen a good option for making burned CD's look a little more professional? A good designer and a CD printer :P lightscribe? I've got neither some LoCos are making those CD label things that cover the whole CD lightscribe seems to take too long like 15 or 20 minutes per CD wow... btw, I have tried using inkscape... what a cool app!!! 15-20 *per cd*!? yeah hmm 15 people doing 4 per hour... * MKR ponders hmm yeah, thats we need to figure out those CD label things but I don't know if any of the software works in linux I think that k3b prints CD labels does anyone have a printer they could try this out on? I don't have a printer at all. http://www.ask.com/web?q=CD+label+paper&qsrc=0&o=333&l=dir How long should we have the poll up for the logo? a week, two? lets do a couple weeks and we'll send out an email to the list I have access to a color laser, but it's not mine, so it would be hard ot get approval to do something like this yeah, hard to get access to the color printer at work for me too http://www.cdstomper.com/ i wonder how much it would cost just going to staples k... also, i haven't been able to find any lightscribe burning feature :( I may can do something with our color printer at work, provided I buy the paper hey sorry I've been out the UPS store has copies for 39c a page... expensive, expensive, expensive.... kinko's was 89c per page was taking a phone call for a while >.> Bakey: i'll pay for the paper if you can try it out It's ok, we're only deciding the fate of the free world :D hey clinical bandb - let me talk to my boss to make sure it'd be OK Bakey: ok, let me know how many copies are we talkin about, 50? 100? how goes Bakey: maybe to make 100 CDs first? ok maybe using this label: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/ubuntu7-04livei3860.php Smexy Actually, I like that better than canonical's yeah, and I think Corvix had made something similar with different colors Bakey: find out if you can pull it off and then we'll decide on the design cool alright I'll talk to my boss Monday about it GIMP has a CD cover template :D hey though, for now, is there anything yall need done? I think I can have at least 1 thing done for next weeks meeting We need sharks with lasers on their heads ... ok, if anyone has any opinions of stickers or posters they would be interested in using to market, check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/DIYWebsite/Get/ already done MKR :D ClinicalMistake: you have to color laser printer? access no not right now >.> come like next month I will :D ClinicalMistake: thats right, mr. editor we may have to abuse your rights to the newspaper haha :P yeah we're getting a fucking boss new printer This thing is going to be amazing ClinicalMistake: that could be a huge help for us :) None of those seem to fit with a kiosk thing :\ (the ones in the poll) Wait, never mind lol, we need to build one of the kiosk things one day hmm hold on not sure if it's color 1 sec ok, if anyone wants stickers or posters, see the link above and let me know LoCo LoGo poll: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=435077 cool i only see a logo for choice 1 http://www.xante.com/products/4n/accel-a-writer4N_printer.aspx <-- I dont think this is color :( well ClinicalMistake , you know what you have to put in the newspaper budget then, don't you? :-P newspaper? haha dear god, I dunno about that We have a HP Color Laserjet 2605dn. Nice and cheap, and prints well $300 something robertj: here are a few pics from yesterday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntugeorgia bandb - you have to sign in to see the others Bakey: got it nice pics bandb|laptop: nice, you should do hotspots with nicks robertj: good idea Who's who?! :P lol You know, it wouldnt make sense for that thing to NOT be in color, especially considering how much it costs http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntugeorgia/485772926/ is fignew http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntugeorgia/485772912/ the left is CompiledKernel on a side note, when will the flyer be updated for Feisty? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntugeorgia/485772908/ left is b-rad, right is Corvix wow... that was a pretty nice turnout! http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntugeorgia/486779066/ I'm in yellow in the back with my eyes closed bandb shouldnt shut your eyes don't you know photographs steal your soul? ahh, well, this saves me from having to locate you guys in the next meeting! JonReagan it was funny huh? B-rad and I stood outside the vortext staring at each other lol and then he tosses out a -- after 10 minutes "Are you here for a linux user group" lol! hey guys, I gotta go i think thats all we have for the agenda }}}