We had a good crowd in Brussels for FOSDEM last weekend. Huge thanks to everyone involved. Many contributed - special mentions go to Hans "ribs" Rosenfeld for organizing the table and and Olaf for live-coding a SPARC port.
But thanks go to everyone else - providing T-shirts, coffee, stroopwafels, stickers and other swag, paying for dinner, beer and the like. Just turning up and engaging in lively conversation. And thanks also to anyone who came by to say hi. Overall I think it went pretty well. Some extra thoughts: The T-shirts were brilliant. It makes it obvious who we are, not only at the table but as we're in talks or visiting other tables. We ran out of English leaflets, and it needs to be refreshed anyway. I felt my Tribblix minicards worked out well; the sticker books less so. We ought to have something for each of the distros. I tried to be out front of the booth most of the time. It helps to have people out front - there's only really space for 2 or 3 people to get to the table itself. Standing helps you to be at the same level as visitors rather than sitting; one improvement would be for whoever is out front to have a stock of leaflets or stickers. What makes good swag? More stickers, cards, postcards, leaflets. More from the other distros (try and make each distro the same, though - as in having the same *type* of swag, with maybe illumos having something different). Badges? Pens probably make a very good item. Although maybe not concentrate on swag too much - the place looked like a swarm of locusts had gone past mid-morning Saturday. Might be nice to be in "uniform" at the Delirium event. That's pretty noisy though; I could hardly hear to make myself think. We could try getting a talk into the BSD or distributions devrooms, or a lightning talk. These need planning well ahead of time, the deadlines and schedules tend to be fairly early. There are also a couple of rooms available for BoF sessions we could take advantage of. Someone else mentioned the idea of having a proper monitor on the table. What to put on it though? We had a few Nexenta sheets. Any other projects (openzfs) or vendors (Delphix) we could get literature from to show how widely illumos is used? Any other feedback, comments, or suggestion for improvement are appreciated. And see you next year! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
