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[opensuse-project] Linuxtag 2007 - some thoughts ...
- From: Martin Lasarsch <mlasars@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:03:17 +0200
- Message-id: <200706051603.17718.mlasars@xxxxxxx>
Hi
Instead of sending a "thank you" mail, i wrote something in my blog:
http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=896
But yes, thanks to all who supported us on Linuxtag this year!
Now something different, let me sum up some things which went good and not
that good. I would like to discuss this here on the list, not internal.
Please add topics/concerns if i miss something, thanks! Of course this is also
important for other events to improve our appearance.
* booth setup
+ the concept of laptops & big LCDs showed again this is good
+ JackLab as an external project on the booth was nice, we should have
that every year, when we have enough space on the booth. Not every year
JackLab, every year a different project.
- to much unused space in the middle of the booth, we should have a table
with chairs next time. Henne suggested doing installations or other stuff
there. I like that idea.
- staffing: could be better but was not that bad. I tried to avoid a fixed
schedule, maybe we should have one again. Maybe train the staff how to do the
job. As i said, it was not that bad, but could be better.
- "only" cboltz from the community was there helping us. It's not about that
we don't want to send SUSE/Novell employees to the event, we want the
community more involved and such an event is perfect for this.
- no theme on the booth. One desk with "Xen for beginners" or "How to use the
obs" for example would be nice next time.
- booth look was pretty generic. We had only Novell/openSUSE stickers on the
walls and a big Tux. Posters or Paper where people can write suggestions down
would help.
- softdrink situation: we had first big bottles, which was bad because most
drank only a small amount of the water and let it rot. After that we had
small bottles, with the same problem. Next time give drinks only out with a
name written on the bottle. Yeah, we have problems ... :-)
- on cebit there is a policy "no laptops on the booth, no email reading". I
don't want to force that, but it is not very professional: the visitors don't
want to interrupt somebody reading emails and go away ... could be better
with a table.
* openSUSE day
- some talks were not well visited
+ some talks well visited
find out what the visitors really want. Marcus Photomanagement and the Laptop
talks were well visited. "How to work with Kontact and 10.000 mails a day" or
other more user related topics would be also attract people which are usually
not using openSUSE.
+ the idea of giving at the end of each talk t-shirts away for questions was
good.
- no community talk this year :-(
- date: please not again on the first day of the event, it's a nightmare to
get the booth running smooth and have all the talks.
- idea: get more talks outside openSUSE day, like mhopf or Larry Ewing.
* merchandising
+ we had Promo DVDs, T-shirts, 15cm Tux, Caps ... all for free
- make a plan how to give away the shirts or other valuable goods. If we
have them next time again for free, one plan could be: charge 5€ for a shirt
and donate all the money to a OSS project or EFF, FSF or even openSUSE
(travel costs for community etc.). Some other projects are not really happy
that our shirts are free.
* other ideas
- make a live irc meeting on the event, with video streaming :-)
- do an official irl meeting with the community, dinner at least, paid by
Novell
--
with kind regards,
Martin Lasarsch, Core Services
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
martin.lasarsch@xxxxxxx - http://www.opensuse.org
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Instead of sending a "thank you" mail, i wrote something in my blog:
http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=896
But yes, thanks to all who supported us on Linuxtag this year!
Now something different, let me sum up some things which went good and not
that good. I would like to discuss this here on the list, not internal.
Please add topics/concerns if i miss something, thanks! Of course this is also
important for other events to improve our appearance.
* booth setup
+ the concept of laptops & big LCDs showed again this is good
+ JackLab as an external project on the booth was nice, we should have
that every year, when we have enough space on the booth. Not every year
JackLab, every year a different project.
- to much unused space in the middle of the booth, we should have a table
with chairs next time. Henne suggested doing installations or other stuff
there. I like that idea.
- staffing: could be better but was not that bad. I tried to avoid a fixed
schedule, maybe we should have one again. Maybe train the staff how to do the
job. As i said, it was not that bad, but could be better.
- "only" cboltz from the community was there helping us. It's not about that
we don't want to send SUSE/Novell employees to the event, we want the
community more involved and such an event is perfect for this.
- no theme on the booth. One desk with "Xen for beginners" or "How to use the
obs" for example would be nice next time.
- booth look was pretty generic. We had only Novell/openSUSE stickers on the
walls and a big Tux. Posters or Paper where people can write suggestions down
would help.
- softdrink situation: we had first big bottles, which was bad because most
drank only a small amount of the water and let it rot. After that we had
small bottles, with the same problem. Next time give drinks only out with a
name written on the bottle. Yeah, we have problems ... :-)
- on cebit there is a policy "no laptops on the booth, no email reading". I
don't want to force that, but it is not very professional: the visitors don't
want to interrupt somebody reading emails and go away ... could be better
with a table.
* openSUSE day
- some talks were not well visited
+ some talks well visited
find out what the visitors really want. Marcus Photomanagement and the Laptop
talks were well visited. "How to work with Kontact and 10.000 mails a day" or
other more user related topics would be also attract people which are usually
not using openSUSE.
+ the idea of giving at the end of each talk t-shirts away for questions was
good.
- no community talk this year :-(
- date: please not again on the first day of the event, it's a nightmare to
get the booth running smooth and have all the talks.
- idea: get more talks outside openSUSE day, like mhopf or Larry Ewing.
* merchandising
+ we had Promo DVDs, T-shirts, 15cm Tux, Caps ... all for free
- make a plan how to give away the shirts or other valuable goods. If we
have them next time again for free, one plan could be: charge 5€ for a shirt
and donate all the money to a OSS project or EFF, FSF or even openSUSE
(travel costs for community etc.). Some other projects are not really happy
that our shirts are free.
* other ideas
- make a live irc meeting on the event, with video streaming :-)
- do an official irl meeting with the community, dinner at least, paid by
Novell
--
with kind regards,
Martin Lasarsch, Core Services
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
martin.lasarsch@xxxxxxx - http://www.opensuse.org
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