[CentOS] Re: Linux World Expo - London 25th + 26th Oct 2006

[Scott Silva]

Lance Davis spake the following on 10/4/2006 10:33 AM:
> 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 at centos.org ) or me (
>>> kbsingh at 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 figure that handing out CD's nowadays would not be very useful.
> 
> Maybe not, but we do have some t-shirts and mugs
> 
>> 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.
> 
>> 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.
How about copies of the article that Johnny Hughes did in Linux-magazine back
in April?


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