I have no idea whether I can make it. I am at serious risk of negative
spare time from August through November, and won't know for a while.
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You don't necessarily need to
> be a developer to help with the booth, but a moderate working knowledge
> of FlightGear (and for this show, Linux) is always helpful.
Representing an open source project on a booth is a whole lot of fun,
because you get to talk about something that interests you for hours ...
and there is nobody trying to shut you up and/or change the subject 8-).
With proprietary projects, you have to be very careful about what you say,
which takes away a lot of the fun, so obviously open source is easier.
You will generally meet thousands of three kinds of people ...
(1) people who never even downloaded it, but are interested in flying.
(2) people who downloaded it and (probably) had a problem running it,
but were too shy to ask questions on the mailing list, and gave up.
(3) the other developers, as well as expert users who lurk on the list.
They're fun to talk to, and generally have interesting observations.
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
> a possible speaker slot at the Linux User & Developer Expo 2004.
If any of the booth people are willing to stand in front of a lot of people,
I really recommend trying for a slot. In the booth, you get maybe one
minute to explain FGFS to most attendees - you really cannot cover much.
In contrast, in a speaker slot, may get as much as a hundred times longer,
with a hundred times more people listening, so you can go into some detail.
An FGFS audience will basically sit there as long as you're willing to talk.
This can be a problem (for you) if you've got the last slot of the day.
It's worth writing the talk up-front mostly so you don't realize, afterwards,
that there was something you really really wanted to cover ... and forgot.
Remember, the more people you tempt into trying the package, the better your
chance at crashing Curt's webserver. There's the mark of a good show event!
PS. Some events have "installfests" or other special categories of slots
that are extra long ... maybe as much as a couple of hours. It's worth
trying for one of these, if available, because you'll easily fill the time.
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