Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (130 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 28 June 2010 17:55:50 Sankar P wrote:
> [...]
> So, in short, my 2 cents:  If we want more student participation from
> India, we definitely cannot come up with a solution on a mailing list
> discussion(1). We may have to sit on a FOSS conference stall with limited
> number of stakeholders, and devise some plans and execute them. May be
> come over for FOSS.in or in OSC10 (if someone from India comes) or GNOME
> Asia summit or some such event and we can plan a solution for this.  We
> discussing in mailing list in my opinion will just cause long threads and
> no results. 


Novell has sponsored some FOSS events but this needs to be planned quite some 
time ahead.  We have only a limited budget, so the question is which events to 
sponsor and how.  We should not randomly sponsor events but define a plan on 
which regions we want to grow the community first and how.

Even without sponsoring a lot of is possible as the German Linuxtag showed 
where we had no sponsoring, a free booth, banners and a great program.
I've never been to India so don't know how e.g. FOSS.in looks like but hope 
that similar stuff works as well.

From feedback of conference participants, I hear that sponsorship is not 
really something that makes an effect - what makes an effect are 
presentations, tutorials and conversations, e.g. at a booth.

So, let's not say, we need sponsorship money to this or that - let's discuss 
what we can do with what we have to do.

I'm with Gnokii that Launch events can be very easy to do so wonder why so few 
do them,

Andreas
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