[Ambassadors] Fedora case badges for the WHOLE WORLD

[David Nalley]

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:04 AM, David Nalley  wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Max Spevack  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the Fedora Ambassadors NA meeting tonight, we were talking about
>> producing more case badges, which look like this:
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>>        http://myweb.cableone.net/dthomas/fedora/fcasebadges.jpg
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>> They are beautiful (IMHO) and the picture doesn't do it justice.  What looks
>> gray in the picture is really silver, and quite shiny.
>>
>> Due to the price points around producing these, it would make the most sense
>> to produce a HUGE amount of badges (5,000 or more even) and shipping them to
>> key folks around the world.
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>>> From a budget point of view, we'd simply share the cost across regions,
>>
>> when we do the Q4 budget calculations.
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>> An example of the budget calculations in previous quarters:
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>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Architecture_expenses
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>> So, I guess the question is -- do folks in EMEA, LATAM, India, and Asia have
>> use for some of these?  Should we go ahead with this plan?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Max
>>
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> Just to add some concrete numbers so informed decision making can occur.
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> The first 1,000 case badges cost $1,000, so $1 each. Most of this is
> the setup cost for the run. Every 1,000 case badges there after is
> $180, so the price drops to 0.18 per badge. Unfortunately it doesn't
> seem to drop any lower from there.
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> This means we could order 11,000 case badges for $2,800 (25.45 cents
> each); 20,000 for $4,420 (22.1 cents each); and 50,000 for $9,820
> (19.6 cents each).
> While those numbers seem big, globaly if we split that across APAC,
> EMEA, LATAM, and NA, it's a lot more affordable.
>
> The quality on these case badges is quite honestly second to none. I
> have literally not seen anything that comes close to comparing
> anywhere. They are also incredibly popular. In NA we burned through
> 3000 in a couple of months.
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CORRECTION:

Apparently my numbers are way off. John Rose pulled up the actual
numbers and the cost after the first 500 is 13cents per piece.
The first 500 cost $550.

So to redo my numbers:
11,000 would cost   $1,915
20,000 would cost $3,085
50,000 would cost  $6,985

At least it was less


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