Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > attended - no way - but I think we could have done so much more about the > > GNUstep booth, material, promotion and activity. Next year I'd like to > > participate more in this part of the process - getting more attention to > > GNUstep. We really need to show to _every_single_passant_ that we are a > whole > > lot different from the KDE/Gnome/Ubuntu/Debian... folks just a few steps > away. > > We need to stand out and shine! :-) > > I completely agree! > > Having the classes was great - between 10 and 30 attendees. But what I > would like to see in addition is an (open) developer's discussion > session (about targets, timelines, future projects, next FOSDEM plans, > etc.). Other projects did have this in their agenda and it gives > prospective users more confidence in a project. > > But what was missing (compared to other projects) was to sell or > distribute > - most recent brochures > - CDs with debian and other prebuilt packages, plus recent source > tree > - T-Shirts > - Books > - screen shots at the pin-board > > The issue of "sell" might be that we are not an official organization > with a president, treasurer etc. Therefore we also have no money to > spend for such activities. > > And for "book" we don't have one. Helge suggested to me to write one > and I have started to create a concept so that we have by next FOSDEM > some "GNUstep in a nutshell". I would volunteer as the editior and we > need some authors. Some chapters can be easily based on the slides > presented during FOSDEM 06. Ideas and volunteers welcome! > > -- hns
Hmm, I don't think a full book would be very good for a start. Perhaps we should rather start with a slight bit overgrown brochure, like 20-30, perhaps 40 pages. You know, like the distro manuals - 30 pages total, 4-5 color pages on glossy paper for nice pictures, harder paper cover, paperback binding. I don't, however, have any experience at organizing this kind of thing, so the only contribution I could make is with some contents of the brochure... -- Saso _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
