Hi Marc, thanks for putting together the marketing page ... a great start and a very useful resource :-)
And, finally moving this discussion to the marketing list ... Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2011, 19:40 -0500 schrieb Marc Paré: > Le 2011-02-10 16:51, Christoph Noack a écrit : > > Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2011, 06:21 -0500 schrieb Marc Paré: [... FOSDEM and the LibreOffice booth ...] > I saw that you also had some USB flash drive. Were these give-aways or > for sale? If you had internet connection, what did you take with you and > what would you have preferred? Concerning the flash drives: These had been prepared by the Novell guys (Michael, as far as I remember) and contained the full development GIT repository. So if anybody wanted to start coding ... no excuses :-) These flash drives were not "given away", but people could borrow the stick to copy the files. Jacqueline showed very cool ones ... shaped like a "real key" and LibreOffice engraved. However, as far as I know, they have never been provided "for free" (thinking of the time with OpenOffice.org) - far too costly with regard to those people who just "hunt" swag. But, since some people really suffer from slow Internet connections, the German community always cheaply offered the PrOOo-Box (now: LibreOffice-Box) with and without some documentation. Concerning the latter, this was always really helpful for new users ... What also worked very well: on a conference like the CeBit, users got those flash drives by commercial exhibitors. So we offered to copy them OpenOffice.org on these drives ... and the time could easily be used to give them some introduction, or to answer there questions. I perceived that people were usually really grateful for that ... and it communicated the "personal touch" of a real community. Ah, by the way, since I once perceived a lack of time for the booth guys, I proposed a "self copy terminal" ... translated via Google: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F% 2Fwiki.services.openoffice.org%2Fwiki%2FDE% 2FOpenOffice.org_Kopierterminal Concerning an Internet connection - fortunately, it was available at the FOSDEM for free. Since it is rather costly when attending commercial exhibitions, you should take "everything" with you. But since we are at it - what you require strongly depends on the conference. Although I don't have that much experience (Thomas, Jacqueline, ... are the experts here), some thoughts. * Extreme 1 "CeBit": * You should well prepared to serve private users - documentation, flyers, FAQs, CDs, etc. * The German team also brought several computers to show / explain OOo on the different platforms. And, very helpful, a small card that quickly summarizes the project and tells people where to get support (locally). * Private laptops help to explain stuff to users, if the booth is crowded. But don't forget a lock to secure the computer... * You need a *lot* of patience. * Extreme 2 "FOSDEM": * You don't need that much explanation if only FLOSS people attend - everybody is aware what you are doing. * We had only one computer to quickly show what's new ... oh wait ... there has been a second one running a build process. * T-Shirts, T-Shirts, T-Shirts, ... > Maybe also mention a bit on how you financed the articles for the > conference. Did you get some funding support? I don't really know - I've heard that Novell sponsored some of the shirts for the "clothes for coding". The remaining clothes, and the stickers had been paid by Kendy (the stuff got sold). The large banner, the pens and the lanyards have been made available by the German team (OOoDeV?). The small banners and the sweets have been paid privately. [...] Since you originally asked for some more pictures covering the booth, here is a "just excellent" blog posting by Bubli: http://hedgehogpainter.livejournal.com/11599.html Did that help? Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
