On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:51:54PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > - We were the only booth from a Linux distribution, so we needed to > handle the question from Debian interessted AND the request from > people, who barely know, what Linux. Allthough we were 3, we were > very busy handling all the questions. Keep in mind, that most people > will come in the pauses between the notes. As Alex said, there were a lot of 'what about support questions' from people. Also, many people had heard about SuSE/Red Hat and not much else, and wanted to know what makes Debian different. They also expected the CDs to have some sort of catch, or be a demo version only. > so realy raw guess would be about 85 Visitors. > Hmmm, coming nearly direct from LT that sounds quite small. There were quite a few who didn't take CDs, so you could adjust upwards a bit. I enjoyed the day, and was glad to have the chance to get to know Alex and Michael. > One final point: They handed out some advertissment for the LinuxWorld > Expo in Frankfurt at the end of october. As Michael Meskes told me, > Debian could get a booth, and I'm willing to help, but I will spend > much time in september and october for the orientation week for our new > students, so I would be pleased, if we could plan it early. You can probably count me in, too, although I'm not sure I would be able to be there all of the 3 days. There are two other DDs in Frankfurt we could ask, too. I went to the exhibition last year. SuSE had a large stand and I think Red Hat were there too, but the .org pavillion wasn't very busy. There were stands from KDE, samba and Wine I think. But it was much much bigger than Linux@Work, and took place at the same time and same place as the European Banking exhibition, which brought more poeple in. I went to talks by Bruce Perrens and Miquel de Icaza. Chris
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