Hello, Hans and I mostly organized this last year and we now have some experience of what we should do more of and what we shouldn't. I thought we might first recollect our experiences from last year (those who manned the booth) and then plan accordingly for this year's. My recollections about preparing: * Staffing the booth was fairly haphazard but it worked out because it was mostly the same people for all 3 days. * We took way too long to finalize the CD images and get them sent off. I think it will be easier this year because sarge = sarge. I also noticed the embarassing misspelling of 'Spons*e*red by AlmostFreeLinux.com', but it's not super important... Do we have a volunteer who can provide us with lots of media (CDs, stickers) this year? My recollections about the actual booth experience: * Hans' iMac was a piece of shit :( * I seem to recall we almost *lost* all the CDs. * The T-shirts were a blast but we ran out really quickly. L/XL seemed to be the most popular size, but we got a considerable number of >XXLs. People expected them to be free, too. * The CDs went like hotcakes and we nearly ran out as well. * People asked lots of good questions and I think we did a great job of answering and promoting Debian. The booth was VERY busy! * We were not prepared for a number of "neighborhood" contingencies - the GNOME people with their busted AMD64 1U, the X.Org people with their hosed UltraSPARCs -- I think we should come prepared with installation media for popular desktop and server architectures: IA64, PPC, Sparc, (duh) i386, AMD64... What I think we should do this year: (not a finished list) * Have a full-featured (read: no live CDs) demo box featuring Sarge with GNOME. * Consider a few quick presentations on various Debian-reated topics - anyone is welcome to volunteer to present. For example, I spent a lot of time faking a reinstall on my laptop just to show people the wonders of D-I. let's get this ball rolling... -- Joshua Kwan
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