On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 11:15 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Hi everyone,
Hi Jorge, > Quick trip report from the GNOME Booth @ Lugradio Live USA. First let me thank you for writing this report. Next, for writing it so fast. > * Participants: Jorge Castro, Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader and > wife (forgot name, sorry!) Elnaz Sarbar. Also, the above list doesn't do justice. You did a lot more than me, with others somewhere in between. Thanks a lot! > * The foot stamps were cute, people liked them. Yep. > * The annual GNOME Report was popular. I think people were impressed > by the quality of the booklet and the articles. People were actually > reading them at the booth. Agreed. We should put a bunch in each box. Let me thank Rosanna for sending them overnight. > * North American Event Box needs some updates: > * A webcam to demo Cheese We did that for the European box. Murray, if you tell me what you bought that worked, I can ask Rosanna to order one. > * A way to run a development version of GNOME to show off new features. > > * I left an Ubuntu Hardy Live CD in the box. I think it would be > a great idea for participants who use the box to leave a current Live > CD or something so that we can show off the latest and greatest > without having to maintain the installation on the computer itself. > > * Since the box goes to events where there are GNOME-friendly > distributors, it's easy to just snag a CD from one of them to live > boot and then change the theme to be close to upstream. The GNOME Developer Kit thing may be useful too. > * A banner of some kind to hang from the booths. This is a very good point. A shiny flag is a must for booths. Any idea where we can do that? > * People are aware of the black shirt on the GNOME Store but I got > many queries about where to buy the green shirt (the > desktop+gnome=love one) I've got similar requests too. We really should make the green one available online. That's by my nonscientific measure the most popular GNOME shirt ever. > * Bottom Line: This show is going to get more popular and it should be > considered a good target for a GNOME presence in the future. I would > like to get more volunteers next year so I can enjoy the show more. :D > > * Thanks to Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier from openSUSE/Novell for ensuring > that the box got to UPS on Monday. (I left on a Sunday) Go Team GNOME! > * Thanks to Rosanna Yuen for scheduling the shipping of the event box > and making that painless. > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list