On Wednesday 13 February 2013 08:15:24 Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 02/13/2013 07:14 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 12.02.2013 17:55, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
I'd like to ask Stella, Kostas, Izabel, Robert and all other opinionated people :D to have a look at the google doc with the conference sponsorship brochure and tell me if they are OK with this.
I still don't think we want booths. We're not a general purpose FOSS event but the get-together of the openSUSE community. What would be have booths for?
If a sponsor chooses to have a booth why not?
A boot is a good way for a sponsor to hand out stuff and start conversations that may not happen otherwise.
Izabel had the idea to work with other FOSS communities as 'community partner' and have them run a booth at our event. She already contacted both GNOME and KDE and they liked it, most likely will have people at oSC. So, this will add a number of friendly project-people to our event. That does make it less of an insider-thing and I realize full well that this has implications for the event. Both pros and cons there. I personally am OK in both ways - a 'just openSUSE' event is, for me, just as OK as a more open event (which fits our tradition better, imho). I would say that Kostas and Stella have a strong say in this, as local organizers. If they feel strongly about this, let it be. Otherwise, we can see what everyone thinks. /J
Later, Robert