[FOSS4G-Oceania] Swag

[Martin Tomko]

+1, great ideas.
The #pyconau thread had some interesting stuff going on now, incl someone who redesigned their swag.
M.

From: FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>
Date: Monday, 27 August 2018 at 2:14 pm
To: Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com>
Cc: "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Swag

Colouring book, could be great fun!! :) (esp if Oceania or Melbourne specific)

I love these wearable map from splashmap<http://www.splash-maps.com>. and could be really fun swag for a geo conference - we'd have to still design it obviously... but probably this is not possible as too pricey (although we could explore costs for batch cost). But not sure would anyone actually use it ... actually if it was Melbourne specific I think they would, people could draw on it...and we can mark the relevant buildings - we might need to provide a wash-off-able (logo'd perhaps) pen too! We could continue this with fun social media posts of people using their maps around the city!

A tea towel is at least useful! and could be very cool if we have a really great design.... Could we run a tea-towel design competition? i.e. Using open data and open software design a map for our "FOSS4G-Oceania" merchandise (merc as this could go even beyond tea towels to posters or flyers if we wanted). I think this could be fun and could create some buzz in the community before the conference ...  I imagine we could get some great entries even from outside the immediate community. And then it goes to public vote, or we (I) can probably get some people together as a panel of data vis /cartography / design experts to critic and shortlist them first? we could hae even different designs and people get them at random - we might see some swaps...

Bookmarks could be nice, although I rarely use them myself. Whilst I like the idea of giving books to go with them but it seems expensive and difficult to give people books relevant to them and I think we will end up with lots being left behind partly as they weigh luggage down! It still might be nice to have some relevant books available to win if we have money available - maybe a collection of different ones and the draw happens in the few days before the conference... Everyone with a ticket gets the chance to win and then they choose a book relevant to them when they get there (first come first serve on choice). (If people don't want a book then we get to re-draw for prize winners).



On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 16:55, Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com<mailto:dwsilk at gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:23 PM Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com<mailto:alexgleith at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> I’m still super keen on tea towels! Maybe I’m a bit of an old man, but I could always use of tea towels and having one that reminds me of our conference would be great!

If someone can design a nice tea towel using OpenStreetMap data and the conference logo, I think it would make a good speaker gift.

It's a bit jarring to me as an item that we put the Platinum sponsors logos on though.

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