Thanks for this wonderful and wonderfully entertaining summary and some great ideas.
-- Kay _______________________ Sent from MzK's phone. On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 08:47 Daniel Ruggeri <drugg...@primary.net> wrote: > Hi, all; > Here is a completely unstructured list of thoughts/notes from OSCON > before I hop on the plane home. > > - HUGE thanks to Filip, Pono and Myrle for (wo)manning the booth. We had > someone there pretty much at all times. This was a Very Good Thing(tm) > because the traffic was relatively constant. Thank you, thank you, THANK > YOU!!! > - Set up was straight forward. The tables were the right height, but the > table cloth was significantly wider than the provided table. Filip took > care of it with the ole military fold/tuck bed making maneuver since > druggeri's tape attempt was a complete failure (but a cute effort > none-the-less). The table cloth took a direct hit from a coffee spill, so I > am taking it home and will see if we can return it its former glory before > sending it to Virtual for storage. > - The roller banners and remaining flyers were sent to Tom @virtual for > storage. I will update wiki doco on where this stuff is. > - The caps on the top bar of the roller banners are finicky. If they fall > off (as they are wont to do during tear down handling), the full length of > the banner will pull itself inside the aluminum housing thus rendering the > whole thing useful only as a blunt weapon and/or trip hazard. The noise > will announce to all around that your day just became a little bit > crappier. Field repairs were performed with a philips screwdriver I was > able to track down. I suggest we gorilla glue those suckers on there. > - I could have done a much better job of procuring and bringing swag. Half > the stickers were completely wiped out in the first 20 minutes of the expo > hall being open. It wasn't all bad, actually, because we were about as > equivalently stocked as the other non for profits in the row. This will > turn into a "default booth load out" Wiki article or equivalent to prevent > the problem in the future. > - Pono brought a handful of project stickers on day two to augment the > swag collection. Several of them survived the expo hall onslaught, but we > are effectively depleted of swag from this event + GOTO and have nearly no > leftovers worth mentioning. > - Our booth was directly across from the NSA's booth so, for once, we were > able to watch them while they watched us. Joking aside, I was able to pitch > the idea to one of their engineers of pushing his personal project through > the incubator because it was a very, very interesting idea and I would > personally love to see it grow. > - We had tons of booth visitors. Everyone from folks saying, "Thanks for > what you do!" to, "What is an Apache and how can I?" stopped by. One > visitor that was particularly interesting was a man seeking advice for > creating his own software foundation in support of his project. We begged > him not to put himself through that, and he seemed possibly interested in > the software going through the incubator, but only time will tell. > - Filip was our "booth babe". After discussion, it was determined this is > an inside joke and not a CoC violation. > - Pono and druggeri invented the clever idea of adding a request to the > site verification tool for each project to have a > projectname.apache.org/logo.png file to make the job of assembling the > logo banners easier and to fix the few white space overlaps. It would also > be handy to add color/personalization to project info in p.a.o > - The Tomcat project should be renamed Waldo. We searched and searched for > it's logo in the logo banner but couldn't find it. > - Pono and druggeri invented the idea of having a http://random.apache.org > URL that will redirect people to a random project site for discovery and > browsing (like Wikipedia's random article button or reddit's rand subreddit > link) > - druggeri was able to shake hands and say thanks to a few sponsors (even > posing for a selfie with one). Follow-up with Zaheda at AWS is needed. > > All in all, this was a good event. I am glad we could participate since > the non-for-profit booths did not come at a cost other than volunteer time > this year. > -- > Daniel Ruggeri
