On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Renée Bäcker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi *, > > during the last days I've talked to one of the LoCo Germany (this is a > Ubuntu community group - see my last mail) members. He recommended to have a > group of at least 6 - 8 persons for the booth. So each day 1 or 2 persons > can "relax" what seems to be needed as the CeBit is a week of pure stress.
I plan to be around for most of the time but I certainly don't want to be at the booth 10 hours a day for 5 days. Also I guess a large percentage of the visitors will be local and even if they know English well they will prefer to speak in German. > And the stand shouldn't be too technical. The target group of the CeBit are > decision makers. And these people do not want to know how smat matching or > something like this works. They want to know what can be done in Perl and > why should they use Perl. So we should have a booth design that respects > these needs. > > I would propose this concept: > > We could feature one Perl related project each day (or two days). These > projects should be "business proved" like OTRS (http://otrs.org) or Foswiki > (http://foswiki.org). This doesn't mean that we should show only these > projects on these days, but we could show demosystems, videos or similar > stuff. Briefly we talked about the preparation of a Live CD. I think we should ASAP start to collect materials that could be both demoed and then handed out as a CD. We should be should be ready with the first version for FOSDEM so by CeBit we have a better version. > I've talked with some people from OTRS and they would like to support us. > And the ((otrs)) Inc. is at the CeBit, too. They offered to show posters for > our booth in their booth. > > I would ask the Foswiki people, too. That's great. > I have these projects in mind: > > * Padre > * Foswiki > * OTRS > * TPF > * ... To my surprise I have not heard from the Bricolage people and my contacts from WebGUI have not responed yet either. I don't have high hopes in the next few days but once the new year starts I hope we will see some of these people respond. > I got the recommendation, that we should use this opportunity to ask for > funds for TPF. > > What we would need for CeBit: > > -> brochures > + 8 pages with Perl content > -> flyer > + a very brief overview of resources > + 1 DIN-A4 page folded > + maybe adapt flyer from other events (OSCON) > -> TPF banner? > -> posters > -> who uses perl? > -> ... > -> projector? (do we show something) > -> laptop? (for the presentations) > -> CDs? > -> wooden round tuits? > -> "baseball" cards? > -> coffee mugs? (to sell - profit for TPF) > > We would need to discuss, who pays for what... I certainly hope that both TPF and EPO will allocate a budget for these and we should approach companies using Perl and having Perl projects to fund some of the expenses. > Gabor, do you know the size of our booth? only that it is "not big". > The Ubuntu guy said, that they have two chairs and a small table in the back > of the booth. That would be for discussions with interested people. In the > front they have one or two tables for giveaways. > > I would propose that we create a shirt for the booth staff. Can we have more than one? :-) > Any thoughts about my ideas? Who will attend CeBit? Should I ask german > Perlmongers? Definitely. I think the best chance is to have people from German and maybe the Austrian Perl mongers to help us. Gabor
