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. Wikis seem good ... Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.