"No one showed up to man the Debian booth"
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| Steven_Rosenber Aug 08, 2008 2:56 PM EDT |
Sheesh ... There are ways to do a booth, and ways NOT to do a booth. I've heard plenty of talk about how mobbed Ubuntu's booth was at LinuxWorld. Not showing up is pretty bad. I know DebConf is going on somewhere, but not everybody and their mother is jetting off to wherever that is. I remember back to Scale 6x. Debian had a booth. It had a couple guys in it ... but they weren't really doing much of anything, as I recall. Just sitting in the booth working on their computers. |
| Scott_Ruecker Aug 08, 2008 3:01 PM EDT |
That is what I remember too Steven, a couple of people not very interested in being there. |
| Sander_Marechal Aug 08, 2008 3:02 PM EDT |
Same experience at FOSDEM. Nice people at the Debian booth, but not very actively attracting the crowd. The KDE booth was much better at that. Disclaimer: The KDE booth did have a much more prominent location than the Debian booth at FOSDEM. And the Debian developer room was packed to the brim with folk, while the KDE room was not. |
| lcafiero Aug 09, 2008 7:31 AM EDT |
I staffed the Fedora booth Tuesday and Wednesday across the aisle (in fact, if you were to expand the frame of Scott's photo rightward, we were next to Creative Commons), and I found that Debian's presence, or lack thereof, somewhat interesting in a disturbing way (not as interesting, in a guerilla sort of way, as PC-BSD's squatting in the space, but I digress). Steven is right -- not everyone is in Argentina (or wherever it is) at this conference, and why Debian couldn't rustle up some folks to staff the booth is a mystery (or why the Bay Area LUG folks directly across from the booth, those who live and breathe Debian at least, couldn't have picked up the ball). |
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