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? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!