On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 11:15 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
Hi everyone,
Hi Jorge,
Quick trip report from the GNOME Booth @ Lugradio Live USA.
First let me thank you for writing this report. Next, for writing it so
fast.
* Participants: Jorge Castro, Behdad Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader and
wife (forgot name, sorry!)
Elnaz Sarbar. Also, the above list doesn't do justice. You did a lot
more than me, with others somewhere in between. Thanks a lot!
* The foot stamps were cute, people liked them.
Yep.
* The annual GNOME Report was popular. I think people were impressed
by the quality of the booklet and the articles. People were actually
reading them at the booth.
Agreed. We should put a bunch in each box. Let me thank Rosanna for
sending them overnight.
* North American Event Box needs some updates:
* A webcam to demo Cheese
We did that for the European box. Murray, if you tell me what you
bought that worked, I can ask Rosanna to order one.
* A way to run a development version of GNOME to show off new features.
* I left an Ubuntu Hardy Live CD in the box. I think it would be
a great idea for participants who use the box to leave a current Live
CD or something so that we can show off the latest and greatest
without having to maintain the installation on the computer itself.
* Since the box goes to events where there are GNOME-friendly
distributors, it's easy to just snag a CD from one of them to live
boot and then change the theme to be close to upstream.
The GNOME Developer Kit thing may be useful too.
* A banner of some kind to hang from the booths.
This is a very good point. A shiny flag is a must for booths. Any idea
where we can do that?
* People are aware of the black shirt on the GNOME Store but I got
many queries about where to buy the green shirt (the
desktop+gnome=love one)
I've got similar requests too. We really should make the green one
available online. That's by my nonscientific measure the most popular
GNOME shirt ever.
* Bottom Line: This show is going to get more popular and it should be
considered a good target for a GNOME presence in the future. I would
like to get more volunteers next year so I can enjoy the show more. :D
* Thanks to Joe Zonker Brockmeier from openSUSE/Novell for ensuring
that the box got to UPS on Monday. (I left on a Sunday) Go Team GNOME!
* Thanks to Rosanna Yuen for scheduling the shipping of the event box
and making that painless.
--
behdad
http://behdad.org/
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little
Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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