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