[Kde-events] CMake books for KDE booths at exhibitions ?

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 2/6/08, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> usually it is quite nice if you are booth staff for KDE on some exhibition if
> you have some stuff to give away or give away against some donation (i.e.
> not "sell").
>
> Just some days ago the new edition of "Mastering CMake" came from printing and
> is now available again. Beside that it's nice in general to have something,
> in this case it would be a book very useful for KDE developers and at the
> same time a book which may be a bit hard to get in Europe.
>
> So if we (as in KDE) are interested in getting a bunch of these books (10, 50,
> 100, more ?) now would be a good time to get in touch with Bill Hoffman or
> Ken Martin from Kitware and figure out the details (they probably won't give
> them to us for free).
>
> So are we interested, if so, who wants to handle it ? (I won't handle any
> financial stuff)

I'm not sure if the E.v. should put money in this, why sponsor more or
less random ppl coming by our KDE stand? Selling these cheap or giving
them away on Akademy meetings, or sending them to the CMAKE masters in
the community makes more sense.

And I'm not sure if we want to give them away at all. People will take
it even if they are unsure if they would ever even think about reading
it - it's free after all. Asking a little money (eg 5 or 10 euro's)
won't stop anyone who would actually use it, but if you don't need it,
you won't buy it.


> Bye
> Alex