[CentOS] CentOS promotion

Mon Feb 9 17:58:34 UTC 2009
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>

Michel Daggelinckx wrote:
> I've been to FOSDEM this weekend and noticed the small number of CentOS
> people at the booth.
> 
> The Ubuntu people work with Local Community Teams to support and promote
> the distro.
> 
> I think it would be beneficial for CentOS to setup a similar structure.
> At the moment it's mostly sysadmins who introduce/sneak CentOS into
> businesses.
> Local Community Teams can setup a booth at computer fairs and other
> events. This way the general public (small businesses, non-profit
> organisations, schools, ....) are exposed to CentOS.
> 
>

Hi Michel,

Thanks for the suggestion. It's true that we weren't enough, especially 
if you compared with the boot next to ours : Fedora had more than 40 
ambassadors this year ;-)
And the fact that we had CentOS talks in a devroom not in front of our 
booth didn't help :(

If you have ideas, they are welcome but maybe such discussion can be 
held in the appropriate list (aka centos-promo on lists.centos.org). Or 
even better : join the CentOS promo SIG ! ;-)
Thanks


PS : Fosdem pictures are now online and presentations are available on 
the Fosdem2009 wiki page
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