On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Lance Davis wrote:
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
CentOS has a stand at the LinuxWorld Expo, London on the 25th and 26th of Oct 2006. And we need some help!
We need a few people to come down and help at the stand, talk to visitors and generally spread the good word on CentOS! If you are interested and are able to come help, please get in touch with Lance ( lance@centos.org ) or me ( kbsingh@centos.org ) as soon as possible.
I'm coming with a friend for the 2 days to populate the booth. We're doing the arrangements now. Anyone knows a good (cheap) place to stay in the vicinity ?
Anyone having experience with showcasing CentOS at a conference like this.
Well kb and I were at the show last year - iirc he had a sparc that didnt quite work - and we had an xinit server.
This year we could maybe show the 5 beta ...
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.
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.
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)
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 ?
But having some flyers or something with the basic information about CentOS would be nice.
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.
Do we have something like this already ?
I think we have something that we did last year - will drag it out.
Ok, we can refine it depending on what the punchline is going to be.
Versatility ? Maturity ? (Long time stability) New technologies like virtualization ? CentOS as an appliance ? CentOS on the desktop ?
Do we have proper artwork for printing ? How are we going to organise ? Another wiki page ? :)
A flyer is a good idea, as are posters - we have colour laser , and an a0 poster printer, so can do the output.
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.
Wikis seem good ...
Can I get edit access ? :)
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]