[Ambassadors] Ambassador NA meeting minutes

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:43 +0200, Max Spevack wrote:
> > 20:01 < gregdek> We produced about 2500 CDs/DVDs for NA for Fedora 9.
> > 20:01 < gregdek> Is that a good number?  A bad number?  No idea.  We
> > pulled it right out of our ass with what budget we had left.
> > 20:02 < lxmaier_home> that cost us what? 3000?
> 
> No, that's wrong.  We produced 3,000 Live CDs and 2,000 DVDs.  5,000 
> total media for $8,175.  It was not fantastic.  This company did a great 
> job for F8, but their prices went up and their quality went down for F9, 
> so that's that.
> 
> Here's my problem -- in Q3, people in North America are going to want 
> media again.  If we spend $8,000 on media for NA out of a total FAMSCo 
> budget of $12-15k, then what the heck is the rest of the world going to 
> do?  And how will we have money for subsidizing travel and actually 
> getting people to shows?
> 
> My take: no more mass production of media.  The artwork for each release 
> needs to be on the wiki, and when an Ambassador gets $1,000 of budget 
> for his event, he should be able to go to Karlie (or someone) and say 
> "send me $400 worth of media".

Max, this idea about how to do future CD/DVD production is *great*.
Here's another benefit of that model -- when people *inside* Red Hat
want media to support events, their groups can be responsible for paying
for the media.

Karlie, given the above -- what would be needed for us to proceed with a
plan like this, from your perspective?  Here are some of the questions
that come to my mind, but feel free to add others:

 * lead time required
 * minimum/maximum orders
 * setup fees
 * shipping costs
 * artwork formats
 * samples for quality checking

Mo -- Assuming we can get this off the ground, one of the things Karlie
(or someone else who produces our media) will likely need is artwork.
And you're the master of making sure the lovely SVGs the Artwork team
produces become lovely printed materials. :-)  Your experience from
previous releases will undoubtedly come in handy!

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Paul W. Frields
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