From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 1 18:14:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02294 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 18:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02288 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 18:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA00375; Sat, 2 May 1998 10:44:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980502104413.B318@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 10:44:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Chris R." , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Don Wilde Subject: Re: Mouse Mats References: <00ae01bd7519$355902e0$923163c3@speedy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <00ae01bd7519$355902e0$923163c3@speedy>; from Chris R. on Fri, May 01, 1998 at 04:52:54PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 May 1998 at 16:52:54 +0100, Chris R. wrote: > ok heres the current situation: - > > I have found a local printer who can run off full colour (any > mixtures) mouse mats with our chosen design. > There is no start up cost, the mats are the rubber / fabric combo > discussed and the minimum order is 100. > > The price I was quoted is £2.60 per mat to produce (thats two pounds > sterling - i.e. UK) which is roughly four dollars thirty cents US > ........ I think :-) Does that include VAT? > Anyway - I will go and see the mats first hand to check suitability, > but otherwise is that ok? The price to buy will be calculated finally > so as to cover all costs and perhaps to boost the coffers of FreeBSD. > > Questions > > 1. Is the price acceptable? I wouldn't think so. I'd guess that a good price would be in the order of $0.50 to $1 US per mat in quantity. This is a guess; does anybody else have any ideas? Certainly we can't use these things as free giveaways at your quoted price. > 2. Do we have a mat design yet - or would an improved version of the > one at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~gurab/FreeBSD/index.htm be > acceptable? > > There have been a lot of good slogans touted of late - perhaps one of > these to be incorporated? I would suggest that we don't put a slogan on the mat until a vast majority is agreed. That even goes for the official slogan ("the power to serve"), which doesn't seem appropriate on a mouse pad. > 4. Is the idea of upping the price to help FreeBSD acceptable, and if > so to what amount? Theoretically, I suppose so, but I don't see anybody buying even at the price you have been quoted, and the costs don't stop there. Sorry if I seem so negative, but I'm sure that we can get a better deal. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message