[Infopoint] Re: New Materials (Was: Get your fair requests in!)

[Katherine Goodwin]

As I decided that as the date hadn't been confirmed, I thought I may as 
well take the opportunity to prepare properly for the next fair, in 
November.

One of the main things I brought away from the other infopoints I've 
done is that I felt that 90% of the people we gave CDs to would put them 
to one side and not look at them for quite a long time.  I had already 
thought about that and so had provided small inserts to the little CD 
wallets explaining about the CD.  However, I decided they probably 
didn't have enough detail, so next time I shall be trying the following:
For a small donation (Cost looks like it will be <50p per CD) we'll be 
giving away boxed CDs.  A colleague sells similarly boxed versions of 
his Welsh Knoppix/OpenCD to bookshops in Wales for a fiver and they look 
great.  While he uses good quality paper and colour and suchlike, I 
don't think we need to do that, but he does send his customer away with 
all the information they need to get started, with the printing on the 
cover and a small insert.

We went along to the fair today and purchased some cheap cases and more 
labels and CDs and I'm now putting together some new materials for 
this.  I'm really pleased with the resulting DVD cases, and think that 
they will draw people in (It seemed to work when Jono managed to get 
some old boxed distros donated for one wolverhampton fair)

Anyway, I'm putting up the results under Materials on the wiki as I go 
along, and would really appreciate some feedback.  Feel free to edit the 
OOo draw files if you want to make changes, and send the results back to 
me, or just use the PDF if you only want to print.

Anyway, the point of this email is to let you know about the resources 
that will be up, and to ask for feedback on this idea.

thanks

Kat