2009/6/29 Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com>: > I'm exhausted and even asked myself if it was worth it I was so tired > last night. But this morning I was recharged! > > I have posted a link to my Flickr photostream > (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656...@n02/sets/72157620524327203/) at > the bottom of the LinuxTag 2009 page. > > Simon you did a fantastic job coordinating all the loose ends, I > really appreciated how you helped me out with logistics & lodging > problems. > > Although lugging 3 XOs and 5 netbooks around was difficult (especially > at the airports), the impact of running Strawberry on a table full of > machines was undeniable - all visitors understood immediately Sugar on > a Stick's ability to run on different hardware. The teachers liked > comparing the netbooks (all preferred the XOs). > > I salute James for shimmying up the vertical poles to tape Sugar Labs > balloons to the "roof" of the booth, they were visible as Fun Central > from all the way across the hall and every kid who visited got a > balloon or two (appreciative mothers). James was tireless in > explaining Sugar to attendees, we had a steady stream of visitors the > two days I was there. > > I even had a chance to act up by running the Distance Activity with a > booth visitor and backing into the center of the hall while the XO > buzzed, a bit of street theater - everybody dropped what they were > doing to see what was going on. > > Our "boothmates" were very friendly which made everything easy. > > I left one of the booth banners and a balloon tree (shoebox with > plastic pieces to stick balloons onto) with Simon as a booth kit so we > now have one in Brussels/Paris and one in Berlin. > > It was great Adam was there and Martin Langhoff too for awhile, many > visitors had questions about OLPC and the XOs and I was able to > introduce them. > > I loaded many sticks (even had a short queue for awhile), I tested > each one by rebooting, entering the visitor's name, letting them > choose their color, and setting their language (not always German by > the way). They all seemed excited to walk away with a Strawberry > stick. > > In the improvement department, maybe just "bigger booth" ;-) but of > course that would also mean "more booth helpers". With more space, we > could have scheduled a little "class" event, although the venue was > not overcrowded - everyone who was interested in Sugar did get a > chance to speak to one of us. > > Thanks again Simon, I feel it was a real success and I think > datelining the press release from LinuxTag was the right thing to do > (try a Google News search in English on "LinuxTag" you'll see what I > mean)
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick is now the number two entry when googling for 'soas'! david > Sean > > > 2009/6/29 Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de>: >> Hi, >> >> Linuxtag ( >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 ) is >> over - time for a résumée: >> >> I am very happy about how the conference went. The Sugar Labs booth team >> were good representatives of a community that is easy to approach. I >> want to thank the team in spreading the word: >> >> * Tony Anderson (deployment expert, hacking ShowNTell in the last minute >> to give a demo) >> * David Van Assche (the OpenSuse link, more than 50 activities in the >> OpenSuse Soas version) >> * Sean Daly (marketing expert, table full of netbooks and XOs) >> * Sebastian Dziallas (Mister "Strawberry") >> * Bert and Eva Freudenberg and the Squeak Team ("Etoys can do more than >> the car example") >> * Adam Holt (OLPC XO 1.5 expert) >> * James Zaki (a constant in demonstrating the learning platform ) >> >> Many thanks to Harald and all of the Skolelinux team, X2GO and >> Linux4Afrika for being our friendly booth partners. And one thing I was >> really happy about was the booth material we had available. Two banners, >> two posters, branded balloons, Flyers in <a >> href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/02/Flyer_englisch.pdf">English</a> >> and <a >> href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/c/c4/Flyer_deutsch.pdf">German</a>, >> generic business cards, a table full of different laptops running Sugar >> and a wide screen demo. Marketing wise this was a big step forward. >> >> ----- >> >> If you have some pictures from Linuxtag please add links here: >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009#Impressions >> >> And feel free to add some comments if you liked it - what was great >> about it and what did not work, what could be enhanced next time. >> >> Thanks, >> Simon >> _______________________________________________ >> Marketing mailing list >> market...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel