Re: FrOSCon 2010: Review

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>

Yes, I think raffles of KDE gear are a good idea.  A few shirts/hats/etc
would be generally easy to swing.  Also, selling these KDE items would also
give some people a reason to stop by even if it's just to buy something and
move on.  If we can get sponsors to give out hardware that'd be even more
awesome.  E.g. maybe 1 N900 (except whatever the next latest and greatest
Nokia hardware is) or maybe we can get Frank to raffle an "Open PC" once
that's out or any number of places who make low cost open source-friendly
netbooks (Zareason?), etc.  Just ideas...I know people aren't going to throw
hardware at us to give away all the time but at a big conference what's
200-400 bucks on advertising to a company?  And when we're the ones giving
it away and it's running KDE software that's a win-win.

Also, I agree that booths are kind of treated as second class sometimes.  I
think the reality of the situation is that we simply need to be sure to
always get people giving KDE related talks at the events and not just show
up with a booth.  Someone giving a talk about the latest and greatest thing
coming out from KDE will also help to drive people to the booths because
they'll want to see it in action. (meaning we need to run the alpha software
you mentioned...either early releases or trunk or whatever people can
handle)  Talks can also be used as a platform to announce the give aways
when we can make that sort of thing happen.

All of this is "perfect world" scenario stuff.  May not be easy to make it
happen right away but definitely things to keep in mind and strive for imo.

-Justin


> Eckhart
>
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