Dag Wieers wrote:
Anyone having experience with showcasing CentOS at a conference like
this.
I figure that handing out CD's nowadays would not be very useful. But having some flyers or something with the basic information about CentOS would be nice.
Just last weekend I helped organize the Fedora Project booth at the Ohio Linux Fest. A picture during booth setup of what we had can be seen here:
http://www.elfshadow.net/ohiolinuxfest2006/img001.jpeg.html
It was a smaller 6' table/booth. We had a laptop running Core 5 that served two duties - a demo machine and when not doing that looping through a Fedora Core 5 "movie" of sorts that highlighted various Fedora features. We had DVDs on hand to distribute, which even late in the Core 5 cycle were pretty popular. We had handouts highlighting the OS features as well as a handout that offered some ways people could help the Fedora Project. We also had Fedora T-Shirts and stickers available for a small donation. And of course we had the big banner up behind us.
Overall our booth saw a good amount of traffic. The banner hanging out behind us with the T-shirts displayed just below it served well to let people see who we were even when there were several people talking to us.
CentOS flyer:
- Short introduction
- Website location
- Wiki location
- Mailinglist location
- Overview of the different versions, technologies, advantages and differences with other distributions.
Should be professional, straight-forward and objective.
I think a good example of a flyer is to look at Ubuntu's:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing?action=AttachFile&do=get&target...
--Jeffrey