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@suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org