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Does anyone know who will be running the booth?

Hey Vinz,

That'd be me :D

Hi, cool! I'm keeping this topic on-list so that other people running booths somewhere get the info as well. As said, we'll bring a laptop running oS. How is your booth equipped? Do you also want to have a demo laptop with openSUSE? I could also send it to you a few days before the Linuxday if you want to play around with it a bit. :) Greetings, vinz. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org

On 9/12/18 6:00 AM, Marcel Kühlhorn wrote:

On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 14:39 +0200, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:

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Hi,

cool! I'm keeping this topic on-list so that other people running booths somewhere get the info as well.

As said, we'll bring a laptop running oS. How is your booth equipped? Do you also want to have a demo laptop with openSUSE?

I could also send it to you a few days before the Linuxday if you want to play around with it a bit. :)

Greetings, vinz.

Thanks for the offer, I already have an older Dell Notebook as Demo machine, but if you want to send yours anyways we could have one running Tumbleweed and one Leap :)

Greetings,

LinuxDay in Vorarlberg sounds quite similar to LinuxFest NW (LFNW) here in Bellingham Washington US. I was on the organizing committee for several years and have been in the openSUSE booth a few times. Using older hardware certainly shows versatility, frugality, social conscience, etc. That is attractive to many people. For expo demos, we've found that those subjective benefits are mostly taken for granted with Linux. People are attracted to performance. Using the latest, fastest hardware handles that and allows for conversations about SLE > LEAP > Tumbleweed, quality, SUSE, community support, other such things that set openSUSE apart. At the last LFNW, we featured a new Intel Core gazillion with SSD and KDE, converted Windows machine off the shelf from the local tech store. Impressive performance. No conversations about the weight of openSUSE or KDE. Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org

Hi Vinz, My name is Dimitar and together with few other enthusiasts we are running openSUSE info booths on various events. Currently we cover Bulgaria, Albania, and Serbia (in fact, tomorrow we are traveling to Serbia for BalCCon2k18). I think it would be nice to have such a piece of hardware with us, to be showing it in combination with openSUSE. Because we are not located geographically close, and we speak about multiple events, sending the laptop each time wouldn't be an option I suppose. Do you consider other, long term, options as well? Perhaps a kind of sponsorship, rental, preferential price, and etc. Regards, Dimitar On 9/12/18 3:39 PM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:

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Does anyone know who will be running the booth?

Hey Vinz,

That'd be me :D Hi,

cool! I'm keeping this topic on-list so that other people running booths somewhere get the info as well.

As said, we'll bring a laptop running oS. How is your booth equipped? Do you also want to have a demo laptop with openSUSE?

I could also send it to you a few days before the Linuxday if you want to play around with it a bit. :)

Greetings, vinz.

-- Dimitar Zahariev OSS Enthusiast | openSUSE Advocate | VMUG Bulgaria Co-Leader T: +359 899 605 664 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 20:40, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:

Am 12.09.18 um 15:32 schrieb Dimitar Zahariev:

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My name is Dimitar and together with few other enthusiasts we are running openSUSE info booths on various events. Currently we cover Bulgaria, Albania, and Serbia (in fact, tomorrow we are traveling to Serbia for BalCCon2k18).

I think it would be nice to have such a piece of hardware with us, to be showing it in combination with openSUSE. Because we are not located geographically close, and we speak about multiple events, sending the laptop each time wouldn't be an option I suppose. Do you consider other, long term, options as well? Perhaps a kind of sponsorship, rental, preferential price, and etc.

Hi Dimitar,

I'm not sure how booth stuff is handled at openSUSE. But generally speaking it might be good to have a "booth box" which is passed around to anyone running booths for openSUSE.

I will talk to my boss and see what we can work out.

Regards, vinz.

We don't have centralised booth boxes - they have proven to be inefficient and too liable to get stuck in customs when shipping internationally Instead we have distributed booth boxes full of consumable merchandise with a few reusable pieces. They get scattered worldwide and entrusted with advocates who repeatedly represent openSUSE and/or are relatively 'local' to other advocates for easy local redistribution of the box Dimitar is one such advocate, and a good example of one who certainly makes sure we're visible in a large geographic region throughout the year. Douglas DeMaio typically is the contact point for such booth boxes. Dimitar, you make a good point, you do so much for us I'd really like to see if there is something I can do about hardware for your booths. I'm going to talk to Doug and see if theres any way SUSE can help. I can't promise anything - getting hardware within SUSE isn't trivial at the best of times, and currently SUSE is in a short 'stub' financial year while it changes it's financial year dates, and preparing for the acquisition. So the odds aren't in our favour, but I do like the idea. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org

Thank you, Richard! It is not mandatory, but definitely it would be nice if we have any development in this direction. Currently, depending on the event - size, duration, format, main topic, and etc. we usually carry some piece of hardware with us in order to engage the audience/visitors better. Regards, Dimitar On 9/12/18 10:26 PM, Richard Brown wrote:

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 20:40, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:

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Am 12.09.18 um 15:32 schrieb Dimitar Zahariev:

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My name is Dimitar and together with few other enthusiasts we are running openSUSE info booths on various events. Currently we cover Bulgaria, Albania, and Serbia (in fact, tomorrow we are traveling to Serbia for BalCCon2k18).

I think it would be nice to have such a piece of hardware with us, to be showing it in combination with openSUSE. Because we are not located geographically close, and we speak about multiple events, sending the laptop each time wouldn't be an option I suppose. Do you consider other, long term, options as well? Perhaps a kind of sponsorship, rental, preferential price, and etc. Hi Dimitar,

I'm not sure how booth stuff is handled at openSUSE. But generally speaking it might be good to have a "booth box" which is passed around to anyone running booths for openSUSE.

I will talk to my boss and see what we can work out.

Regards, vinz. We don't have centralised booth boxes - they have proven to be inefficient and too liable to get stuck in customs when shipping internationally

Instead we have distributed booth boxes full of consumable merchandise with a few reusable pieces. They get scattered worldwide and entrusted with advocates who repeatedly represent openSUSE and/or are relatively 'local' to other advocates for easy local redistribution of the box

Dimitar is one such advocate, and a good example of one who certainly makes sure we're visible in a large geographic region throughout the year.

Douglas DeMaio typically is the contact point for such booth boxes.

Dimitar, you make a good point, you do so much for us I'd really like to see if there is something I can do about hardware for your booths.

I'm going to talk to Doug and see if theres any way SUSE can help.

I can't promise anything - getting hardware within SUSE isn't trivial at the best of times, and currently SUSE is in a short 'stub' financial year while it changes it's financial year dates, and preparing for the acquisition. So the odds aren't in our favour, but I do like the idea.

-- Dimitar Zahariev OSS Enthusiast | openSUSE Advocate | VMUG Bulgaria Co-Leader T: +359 899 605 664 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org