On Tuesday 12 October 2010 16:22:17 Stephen Shaw wrote:
This is something I wrote to an internal ML and was asked to forward it to oS-Marketing.
Cheers, Stephen
| Just wanted to post a follow up report on our experience at the Utah Open | Source Conference this past weekend (Oct 7 - 9). | | First, I'd like to thank Alan and Darren for the time they spent at the | booth. Its nice not running a booth by yourself :) | | The MVP of our booth would have to go to the suse studio team and their | kiosk. I think I talked to more people this year than I have the last 3 | years combined. Looking back on the last several conferences I've | attended the top question asked, with some variations, is "Why should I | use openSUSE?" or "What makes openSUSE better than Fedora or Ubuntu?". | With the kiosk the top question became, "What is this?". There was a | very positive response with many compliments to the project. By the end | of the conversation many commented on the fact that they hadn't used | openSUSE in a while maybe they'd try it again". It was definitely a | draw for those that hadn't used linux before. | | There were also those that were, are, or might be future customers of our | enterprise products that we were able to talk to as well. I believe that | this benefited both the openSUSE project as well as our enterprise | products. | | Mike was great enough to donate bags to the conference again for the 3rd | year now (if I remember correctly). I've had many people come up and | thank us for supporting the conference and providing the bags. It feels | like the attitude towards us is becoming more friendly, so a huge thanks | to Mike for this. | | Also, a big thanks Alexia for helping put this together and providing all | of the swag and making sure everything arrived at the conference. And | not to forget the warehouse crew for helping us and giving up part of | their Saturday. | | All in all, I think the booth was a huge success and highly recommend | having suse studio kiosks at future conferences. | | | Thanks again to all, | Stephen Shaw
Thanks. Looks like it was a good conference. Also looks like we should work on answering the questions people have on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Talking_points :D