Dag Wieers wrote:
I remember when I was at the Fedora booth on FOSDEM that it's hard to get
attention with just a bunch of hardware that is doing something. Often
what attracts people is fancy graphics or a presentation with interesting
bulletpoints.
LinuxWorld, unlike FOSDEM, is very much overshadowed by the commercial
guys - the biggest, most flashy areas tend to be the guy guys like
Redhat, IBM, Novel etc. And to quite an extent its driven by these
commercial guys. Fosdem is a very different sort of setup.
Also, one thing from last year - lots of people ask about where / how to
get help if they get stuck, so whatever handout we do - must include
some url's for help/support.
I'm not sure how crowded it is (FOSDEM is really crowded) and what
facilities we have. I'm thinking of bringing my laptop, either to do some
work when that's possible or to showcase something.
We just get the stand, nothing on the inside of it - but we did get a
few power sockets. Lance has some furniture, are you going to bring that
along this year as well ?
But it's nice to know what the punchline is going to be. If someone is
leaving the booth, what points do we want to get through. There are so
many things we can say that we have to stick to something simple and
concise ? (And add to that whatever is in the context of the interaction)
My usual punchline with CentOS is simple - IF you need the support and
have big bucks to pay, goto Redhat, but all means. However, if you want
something different ( like more filesystem support, more third party
pacakges, dont want to / cant afford to pay much ) then CentOS is for
you. Another thing that really hits hard and fast is the community. RHEL
has almost zero community around it - everyone moved to fedora, and
therefore unstable / short lifespan distro. CentOS on the other hand has
massive momentum on the community side. I think its always important to
highlight this.
I figure that handing out CD's nowadays would not be very useful.
Maybe not, but we do have some t-shirts and mugs
Are there any posters or something big to put at the background ? How can
we get a glimpse of bypassers if there's a crowd in the front of the booth ?
Standing outside the stand, in the middle of the aisle that people are
walking down - always works :)
Versatility ?
yes, you can do whatever you like with it and not have any
change-in-support or change-in-circumstances.
New technologies like virtualization ?
i am not sure if we want to talk Virtualisation as yet - its not really
there yet, in the core distro ( 4.5 will bring Xen, but its not due out
for a while yet )
Ok, based on the feedback here we can refine it for FOSDEM and future
exhibitions. It would also be nice to have a press-kit. (artwork, summary,
facts and numbers, contact-person, timeline, new technologies, progress)
Anything worth putting in a magazin should be mentioned in a press-kit.
Usually exhibitions like this one have an official press-area with the
press-kits available.
that would be nice, if someone was to start this section on the wiki, i
am sure more people would get involved and kick in.
Wikis seem good ...
Can I get edit access ? :)
done! You should now be able to edit / add content ( remember the
centos-docs list :) )
maybe we should have an 'Events' page on the wiki, and then sub-pages
for each event that people are going to represent CentOS at.
--
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
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