Hello friends,
The period that all openSUSE community was in Nurnberg, I organized our
presence at the 76th International Trade Fair in Thessaloniki.
You can find the report
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:76TIF
Some points:
1. There were only 300pcs of DVDs. There were not enough. Kostas was in
Nurnberg and I couldn't get more (if Kostas has more).
2. Personally I had to cover 80% of the schedule of the Fair. I had to
organize SFD as Greek openSUSE community in Florina (it's 2.5-3 hours by
bus). I also organized the SFD in Thessaloniki and I've contacted a
opensource blog to for an interview about openSUSE, SFD and our presence
there. At the end of the event, me and Kostas were interviewed about
openSUSE and community by Linux Inside, maybe the only Linux magazine in
Greece. We're waiting next issue.
3. I met lot of people that they said their first distro was SUSE and
they bought it with the manual. That's why I tried to create the form to
learn from them the reason they left.
4. I made a contact with 2 major mobile companies in Greece and with 2
journalists.
5. For those of you who know about what Carlos and Kostas did in LA
marketing hackfest, I did it with more than 20 neighbor booths.
People-business owners liked that and the positives of open source software.
6. I didn't have feedback from our community to contact the organizer of
computer exhibitions in Cyprus to join their organization, so I didn't
contact him. The same thing happened with another one in Kavala, city
near us.
7. The only negatives (for me) were that I didn't join the conference
and although our universities are closed because of riots against new
educational system, my university opened for a week but I couldn't take
the test because I was attending the event at the Trade Fair. Lame.
Anyway,
That's all. I must write something also in Greek.
Have a lot of fun.
Stathis
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