FrOSCon 2010: Review

Hi everybody,

I want to review our booth at FrOSCon with you:

There were four of us at the booth: Lea Kaufmann, Daniel Dewald, Sander Geerts 
and my humble self. Sander has been into KDE promo for the first time, and I 
don't think it was the last time. Thank You to everybody who helped me. :-) 
The booth was relatively well-visited, and the "relatively" is what I want to 
discuss.

FrOSCon is a conference with a mostly technical audience, focused on the 
talks. This makes the booths into some kind of second-class citizens. If we 
want to run a successful booth (i.e. a booth that attracts more visitors), we 
maybe have to change things. Some more or less sane proposals:

- visitors with a technical background are less likely to be impressed by 
already-released versions of software, but more into Really Cool Alpha 
Versions™. I remember Paul Adams at LinuxTag being crowded whenever he demoed 
PIM Mobile.
What do we need for this: a) knowledge of mind-blowing stuff *long* before 
release announcements are written b) for some of that stuff, maybe hardware

- visitors are more likely to stop by when they get involved into something, 
so I'd like to see KDE quizzes, raffles, ...
What do we need for this: a) someone who works these things out b) something 
to raffle - hey, I told you about "more or less sane" before, don't you dare to 
complain now! ;-)

- something else?

Eckhart
 
_______________________________________________
This message is from the kde-promo mailing list.

Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.