Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Andreas,
> There is no reason for developers to spend their time to > have smalltalk with people. Those two lines really sum up your whole mail: you are way off. Smalltalk is exactly what we're doing in this kind of exhibitions. That's called "meeting the community", the other one, the *users* community. If you're not interested in that, I suggest you stick to high-profile technical conferences and don't run a booth again. Most people come to those exhibitions to have a look at this Linux thing and ask basic questions, sometimes even stupid questions. We answer them, show them our distro, walk them through some demos. If they're interested, they'll want to take a CD/DVD (or a LiveCD) home to try it out on their own. Even on Solutions Linux, which is a professional exhibition, those are the people we see most at our booth. Enthusiasts make up for a small part of the people we get to see, and they come see us for a variety of reasons: saying hello, meeting the developers of their favorite distributions, giving some feedback on stuff they've done, telling us about Debian installations we couldn't even dream of, getting their laptop fixed, getting some help on packaging something, ... That's what these exhibitions are for. I appreciate that you gave some of your time to man a booth at an exhibition, but really, if you don't enjoy it, don't do it again. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[email protected]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
