Hi, On Tuesday, June 05, 2007 at 16:03:17, Martin Lasarsch wrote:
- 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.
- no theme on the booth. One desk with "Xen for beginners" or "How to use the obs" for example would be nice next time.
This is a pretty generic topic for all fairs we attend. The question is how to attract users to our booth. The concept of having counters with staff where people can try out and/or talk about openSUSE is nice but very generic. A high percentage of people just walk by. I guess by now most people know what a openSUSE desktop looks like. Most of them even know all the stuff you can showcase (XGL, applications, etc.). So i guess we need to find other ways to present what we do and whats cool about openSUSE. Some ideas i had at LinuxTag openSUSE Fuelling Station ------------------------- Having a table with power/network plugs and an installation server in the background. So people can install openSUSE on their laptops. This is includes staff that can help with problems and/or show cool stuff we can do during the installation. Could also serve as give away point for promo DVDs or latest development versions on burned cds/dvds. openSUSE Bugpaper ----------------- A counter where you can tell openSUSE staff bugs you found and get help on how to report them properly to bugzilla. This would bring validation for bugzilla and/or hotfixes/workarounds for the user. openSUSE Package Machine ------------------------ A counter where people can request software to be packaged and can find it later at home in a BuildService project. This can also lead to cool new software for the distribution. I bet we can come up with more ideas on how to make our booth more interesting and how to give users that visit us some surplus value. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org