I wrote: > For technical projects, the fastest growth in gaining new users > is to give presentations at relevant (non open source) conferences. > People have to become aware that "gEDA" even exists in the first > place, otherwise they'll ignore search engine hits for the site. > > That's why I was inviting someone to give a talk at DMES before; > http://www.vts.com/delmar/index.html > These types of events occur everywhere around the country each > year, most of them are happy to have toolchain users as speakers > since the talks tend to be more interesting than the marketers'.
It's been pointed out to me that many people have a horror of public speaking and my statement above can be misunderstood. This is _not_ a powerpoint thing; if it was, you would sound like another marketing person, which is not what I'd like you to offer. When you demonstrate your favorite open source project to a few other engineers at your desktop, there are likely to be a several people at the back, who're trying to see past all the heads and understand what's happening on the screen that's too far away. The nice thing about using a conference room is that you get a really _big_ screen. You can give a demonstration to a couple of people, who're really interested, and all the people at the back can actually see what you're doing. Without shoving. 8-)
