Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (164 mails)

["Stephen Shaw" <sshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jbrockmeier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >>> On 12/10/2008 at 03:34 PM, "Kyle Davis" <kdavis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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:

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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

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media/install server/food available throughout the meeting


Stephen
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