On Fri, 02 Dec 2011, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
2011/12/1 Bruno Friedmann <bruno@ioda-net.ch>:
On 01/12/2011 12:19, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 01.12.2011 00:07, Richard Brown wrote:
I'm volunteering to co-ordinate an openSUSE stand at FOSDEM this February
Cool :)
Even if you're not coming this year, I especially welcome advice and guidance from FOSDEM veterans. What worked in previous years?
* Bring the Touchsmarts, people like to grope things. * Bring 12.1 DVDs, stickers and folders, people like to snatch things. * Bring Beer and T-Shirts, sell them for 1? and give the proceeds to the university. They will love you. (Pascal knows whom to give it to) * Have 2 guys, you can rely on at any time, to be on the booth. People like to wander off into the awesome program. One minute it might seem that you have a gazillion people on the booth and the next one it's deserted because RMS speaks. * Try as hard as possible to avoid that people leave their shit on the booth. The corridors are narrow, the boths are small, there are more and more people each year. If they all leave their Jackets, laptops and bags on your booth there is no room to operate anymore.
what do I need to know?
* You get two tables and a couple of chairs in a windy corridor * It's friggn cold and drafty * Don't try to plan anything, it's chaotic. * Have Pascals number on speed dial. He's the man. * Get drunk as early as possible :-) I will I promise :D
what do I need to avoid?
Well you could start by avoiding me , I talk tooooo much, more when I'm drunk :D
As a member of the Kostas fan club, and somebody who is planning to come to FOSDEM (I really am!), do *NOT* avoid Kostas. Especially if Kostas is drunk, he's a fun multiplier. FOSDEM in general is already very fun so: Awesome = fun(FOSDEM) * fun(Kostas + Beer) I would also recommend organizing as BIG of a list as possible for folks to hang out at the stand. Try to come up with some kind of schedule for being near the booth to answer questions and talk to folks about openSUSE. Speaking from the experience of manning the booth at SCALE9x earlier this year, there's going to be a lot of fun stuff happening, and it's very difficult to keep the booth organized if you don't have some kind of agreed upon schedule planned out ahead of time. Look forward to seeing folks there :) Cheers - R. Tyler Croy -------------------------------------- Code: http://github.com/rtyler Chatter: http://twitter.com/agentdero rtyler@jabber.org