Hi all,
Well some feedback from my side ... I was just discussing this with Myrle here
at the booth.
Most of the time people walk by our huge wall of logos and stop walking by when
they recognized a logo.
Then usually Myrle or I asked them about what project they know from the ASF.
Most of the time it was the "Apache Webserver". We then usually started talking
about other projects and how for example the entire Big-Data hype is almost
completely built upon our software. Or how every phone they have with them will
be equipped with ASF software.
One thing most people didn't get, is how this whole thing works from a
financial point of view. They can't imagine, why companies and people invest so
much time and effort in giving away something for free.
After doing a short version of my "Earning money with Open-Source Involvement"
talk, they are usually really interested and thank us for helping them learn
something they think is really cool and which they never would have thought of.
Chris
Am 13.09.18, 15:01 schrieb "Daniel Ruggeri" <drugg...@primary.net>:
I think that's an awesome exercise to engage in anyway. At the OSCON booth
we had visitors across the whole spectrum - from business types that don't know
what we do to engineers that used lots of our projects.
I have this vague idea of a short set of talking points that answers "Why
the ASF matters to me as..."
- a student
- an engineer
- an executive using products built on ASF projects
- a company offering products built on ASF projects
- a friend of OSS
- a marketing person selling products based on ASF projects
- a random passer-by
Does that fit with what you have in mind? I'm happy to take a swag at some
as a starting point we can build on in cwiki.
--
Daniel Ruggeri
On September 13, 2018 7:01:53 AM CDT, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
>
>
>On 09/13/2018 03:40 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
>> Also, that Hamburg conference didn't feel very technical to me,
>
>
>This is really important feedback to hang onto for next time, so that
>we
>know how to adequately set messaging.
>
>Yes, I know, for the most part we don't *have* messaging at events, but
>
>it's something that's on my list for the coming year - to provide a
>one-sheet messaging guide with info about the Foundation, and some
>talking points about "what's new" and "what's exciting".
>
>Yeah, I'm getting all corporate on people. I expect 10-years-ago me
>would be horrified, and 10-years-ago Sally would be proud. ;-)
>
>--
>Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com
>http://rcbowen.com/
>@rbowen
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