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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 07 February 2008, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK we (KDE) are not allowed to sell stuff.
But AFAIK we are allowed to give stuff away if people donate something, e.g. a 
T-shirt startung at 10 Euro donation, a book starting at 40 euro donation...
See what I mean ?

Alex