Re: Moving toward a more professional booth presence

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Moving toward a more professional booth presence
Date: 2007-06-01 18:46:00
Message-ID: 46606968.9000102@commandprompt.com
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Josh,
>
>> Usually at our booths (at least the ones that I man) we have a various
>> assortment of sundries including brochures (cmd included). At LW-SF last
>> year we had:
>
> I'd agree we need to cut down on the variety of paper stuff. "Less is
> more". Sticking to .ORG-only stuff would do that.
>
> I'd suggest:
> 1-page general information sheet
> "PostgreSQL for Executives" brochure ala Fujitsu
> 1-page B&W flyer about some current/related information
> (e.g. about 8.3 when we release it, listing PostgreSQL talks at OSCON,
> etc.)

PostgreSQL for Executives should be color.

Agreed otherwise.

>
>> A little section for Community Help, Training, Support, Consulting
>> etc... Each company/consultant/community member could have their own
>> full page flyer in the folder and *that* person's company / expense.
>
> I'm going to suggest another requirement: the listed company must be a
> PostgreSQL project contributor. That is, they must have/be donating code,
> money or resources to the project, our NGOs and/or our conferences.

Agreed.

>
> I think we have enough companies actually supporting the project that we
> don't need to help promote those which don't.

Agreed.

Joshua D. Drake

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