Re: LinuxWorld Expo 2005 .Org Village London
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 21:21 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: > Since there has been no response to this I presume there is no interest > in organising a GNOME stand for the LinuxWorld Expo in London this year. > > 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'll be at the Expo on our stand and giving a talk so I will be able to help out a bit. We can also loan some equipment (desktop + tft), like we did for the last one. I'm also happy to burn some live CD's - we have a duplicator so it's dead easy. I'm sure Jono will be willing to help out a bit as well. Paul > -Thomas -- Paul Cooper| Tel: 0121 634 1620 Assistant Director | Fax: 0121 634 1630 OpenAdvantage | http://www.openadvantage.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: LinuxWorld Expo 2005 .Org Village London
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. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: LinuxWorld Expo 2005 .Org Village London
Since there has been no response to this I presume there is no interest in organising a GNOME stand for the LinuxWorld Expo in London this year. 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. -Thomas Thomas Wood wrote: The call for participents in the .org village at LinuxWorld London has come round again for this year. GNOME has been represented by myself and a few others for the past two years, with a varying amount of interest. If anyone is interested in helping out at this years expo, please let me know so we can get organised. The dates are October 5th to 6th 2005. To help the effectiveness of a stand, there are a couple of things I would like to discuss: - What is the purpose of a gnome.org stand at a linux expo? - What are we trying to achieve, what should we focus on telling people? - Who should be there? - How can we get people involved and interested in GNOME? With the increasing corporate involvement in GNOME, I think it's important to be able to reiterate why people should be interested in GNOME itself, rather than just the companies developing it, or the distributions using it. -Thomas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
LinuxWorld Expo 2005 .Org Village London
The call for participents in the .org village at LinuxWorld London has come round again for this year. GNOME has been represented by myself and a few others for the past two years, with a varying amount of interest. If anyone is interested in helping out at this years expo, please let me know so we can get organised. The dates are October 5th to 6th 2005. To help the effectiveness of a stand, there are a couple of things I would like to discuss: - What is the purpose of a gnome.org stand at a linux expo? - What are we trying to achieve, what should we focus on telling people? - Who should be there? - How can we get people involved and interested in GNOME? With the increasing corporate involvement in GNOME, I think it's important to be able to reiterate why people should be interested in GNOME itself, rather than just the companies developing it, or the distributions using it. -Thomas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
