Hi,
I guess this passed under my radar...
Thomas Wood a écrit :
If anyone is interested in helping out and is available on either
October the 5th or 6th (or both) then please reply as soon as possible
so we can let the organiser know we will be able to host a stand.
I have an idea which might be useful... will poke around and get back to
you. In the meantime, I'm sure that there are other gnome-uk people
interested.
Thomas Wood wrote:
- What is the purpose of a gnome.org stand at a linux expo?
Branding. Awareness. Getting new contributors (new users will follow if
we get new alpha users who contribute to the community and evangelise).
- What are we trying to achieve, what should we focus on telling people?
Isn't that the same question, asked differently? :)
The focus should be dual, in function of the audience. For developers,
it's our great platform, language bindings, the ease with which you can
quickly write usable, functional applications. For everyone else, it's
usability. GNOME is easy to use, easy to learn, shallow learning curve,
power without being difficult, etc.
- How can we get people involved and interested in GNOME?
See Murray's recent blog on the gnome.de Linuxtag stand. They got a big
poster from GUADEC for a stand backdrop (there are two, if you're having
a stand we could perhaps get one shipped to you). They had 2 computers
facing outwards, people standing in the aisle saying hello to people,
LiveCDs to give away from Ubuntu (you could even have 2.12 LiveCDs in
October) and some cheesy merchandise from GUADEC (the cloth shopping
bags went down well, apparently). They avoided the trap of being too
introspective, having a few GNOME geeks reading their mail and using the
internet on laptops around a table. In short, they did a great stand
(congrats Murray!).
Hopefully at RMLL in Dijon next month, GNOME-fr will have a similar
great presence. We will have printed leaflets to hand out in French, the
other big GNOME backdrop, some t-shirts for volunteers, and a bunch of
other stuff (hopefully LiveCDs as well, although not GNOME branded ones).
Murray's been pushing for a conference kit (a couple of computers set up
for demos and flat screens, a bunch of merchandising material, a stand
backdrop, things like that) which could be shipped around from
conference to conference. It's still an idea, but Murray's in the
process of pricing it, and the foundation is in the process of deciding
whether we'll pay for it. That should be great for this type of thing.
Cheers,
Dave.
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