Hi, The GNOME presence at FOSDEM this year was quite good, and I believe things went (surprisingly ;-)) smoothly:
+ we had a good booth, thanks to the event box, t-shirts, stickers, and most importantly thanks to the amazing volunteers. + the devroom went quite well, with a good attendance and interesting talks: http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2010/Devroom. On Sunday, the room became a cross-desktop devroom. + the beer event on Saturday evening was a good place to catch up with GNOME friends. + it's always a great feeling to see many people wearing on Sunday the GNOME t-shirt they bought on Saturday :-) I quickly looked for pictures: booth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariosp/4341072001/ stickers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itkovian/4337980448/ t-shirts: hrm, I can't find a picture (?). I'm sure someone can fix this! Here's a quick list of things to improve for next year: + have nametags for GNOME people. This helps various people, unsurprisingly. + don't forget about the group photo. We were all too busy... + make sure the computer from the event box has the latest cool things to showcase (it didn't have gnome-shell; but Siegfried saved the world with his laptop) + try to get some more hardware for the event box: this year, a netbook with moblin and a n900 would definitely have helped. We're already asking around to get some donation for this, but feel free to ask too if you think you can make this happen! + do not organize things at the last minute ;-) We used the money we got from selling t-shirts during FOSDEM 2009 to print new t-shirts and stickers. T-shirts were sold €10 (or €5 for Foundation members). Money-wise, this results in (approximately, I don't have the exact figures myself): + Expenses: - t-shirts: around €900 - stickers: around €300 + Income: - around €1650 (from t-shirts) This means that we already have some money for FOSDEM 2011. We'll likely do stickers and t-shirts again, but we can possibly do more: feel free to suggest ideas for next year! As a reminder: the original money for all this came from the Foundation (in 2008, if I'm not mistaken), and since this bootstrap step, we're able to sponsor the GNOME presence at FOSDEM with the money we get from t-shirts. The money is handled by GNOME-FR. Many thanks to the people who helped make sure everything went smoothly, especially Christophe (for the devroom), Lionel (for the organization of the booth), Xavier (for the event box), Frédéric (for the t-shirts), Andreas (for the design of the t-shirt) and Baptiste (for the stickers). We had many people helping with the booth, which was great! Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list