Thanks. Got that covered. Kyle

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On 12/10/2008 at 3:46 PM, in message , "Stephen Shaw" wrote:

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Kyle Davis wrote:

Any advice on holding a launch party?

Kyle

Download openSUSE 11.1, grab a bunch of friends, install openSUSE, and have some fun! If you want post it on the launch party page: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.1_Launch_Party_Locations Stephen

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote:

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On 12/10/2008 at 03:34 PM, "Kyle Davis" wrote:

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Any advice on holding a launch party?

Yes. Do it. :-) You should *absolutely* have one.

Launch parties are different things to different people -- some of the launch parties are just an excuse for a social occasion, others are a way to bring in new users by demonstrating the latest release. I'd like to see more of the demos, but I'm good with the social occasions too.

I've seen several people asking for more of a "script" for the parties though, which tells me we need some kind of launch party guide. (It also hints at more interest in having launch parties, which is good...)

Who ran successful launch parties last time? Would you like to add to the wiki your "template"?

Best,

Zonker

What we have done in the past is treat it kind of like a social / install / presentation fest. Around here its a bit different in that we have engineers that have contributed to the project, so we have them give a couple minute presentation. A off the top of my head agenda is: -------------------------------------- Welcome everyone go around the room and have everyone introduce themselves, share whatever they want. if they worked on the project, tell what they contributed to. show off some of the cool new features on the projector give out the swag install openSUSE and socialize -------------------------------------- media/install server/food available throughout the meeting Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org