Dag Wieers wrote: > 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. LinuxWorld, unlike FOSDEM, is very much overshadowed by the commercial guys - the biggest, most flashy areas tend to be the guy guys like Redhat, IBM, Novel etc. And to quite an extent its driven by these commercial guys. Fosdem is a very different sort of setup. Also, one thing from last year - lots of people ask about where / how to get help if they get stuck, so whatever handout we do - must include some url's for help/support. > 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. We just get the stand, nothing on the inside of it - but we did get a few power sockets. Lance has some furniture, are you going to bring that along this year as well ? > 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) My usual punchline with CentOS is simple - IF you need the support and have big bucks to pay, goto Redhat, but all means. However, if you want something different ( like more filesystem support, more third party pacakges, dont want to / cant afford to pay much ) then CentOS is for you. Another thing that really hits hard and fast is the community. RHEL has almost zero community around it - everyone moved to fedora, and therefore unstable / short lifespan distro. CentOS on the other hand has massive momentum on the community side. I think its always important to highlight this. >>> 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 ? Standing outside the stand, in the middle of the aisle that people are walking down - always works :) > Versatility ? yes, you can do whatever you like with it and not have any change-in-support or change-in-circumstances. > New technologies like virtualization ? i am not sure if we want to talk Virtualisation as yet - its not really there yet, in the core distro ( 4.5 will bring Xen, but its not due out for a while yet ) > 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. that would be nice, if someone was to start this section on the wiki, i am sure more people would get involved and kick in. > > >> Wikis seem good ... > > Can I get edit access ? :) > done! You should now be able to edit / add content ( remember the centos-docs list :) ) maybe we should have an 'Events' page on the wiki, and then sub-pages for each event that people are going to represent CentOS at. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq