Re: FOSDEM Planning

John Layt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <1663147.82Qjfuoera@ithaca>
On Friday 18 Jan 2013 08:03:27 Carl Symons wrote:

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Some really good general advice there Carl, I reckon that would make a great 
wiki page for Booth Beginners (unless it already is?) :-)

> Cornelius and the Board have recommended concentrating on 3 things --
> new users, new developers, new companies (users and sponsors).

FOSDEM is very developer heavy, there are very few new users about or people 
who don't know what KDE is.  In past years I've felt we should be focusing 
more on attracting new devs, but it's hard to figure out how to do that. The 
talks are possibly the "attract" mode with the booth being there for follow up 
and help desk.  There's certainly no shortage of people hacking code...

> Presentations can be used to send people to the stall...
> https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cross_desktop/

In the past we've had a Kolab system showing the calendar, I'll try sort 
something similar this time, the web page may be enough.

> For LinuxCon and Qt Dev Days in the U.S., we produced brochures the
> size of a U.S. business card (2x3.5in; ~50x89mm). PDFs attached. These
> are easy to hand out, and easy for people to keep.

Great idea! I can get 500 business cards for £5 so I'll try work something up.  
Perhaps one with the manifesto for anyone to take, one with links for devs to 
take, and one with links for users to take?

Cheers!

John.


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