"professional" debian booths (was: Re: booth planning LinuxTag)

[Joost van Baal <joostvb-debian-events-eu@mdcc.cx>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:19:53AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:29:10AM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> > Debian is *not* a company (even if some people have vested business
> > interests, and thus (consciously or not) want Debian to look
> > "professional" (whatever that is))
> > 
> > Debian *is* a hacker community, at least from my POV.
> 
> But that does not mean it should represent itself that way. Sure, there is
> no company named Debian, but why not looking more professional?

I had the impression the debian booth at the linux@work expo in Amsterdam
was the most popular one.  I believe this was (at least partly) caused
by the fact the Debian booth looked, uhm, different.  The same thing
happened at linux2000 in amsterdam.  Pictures can be found on

 http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/linuxexpoamsterdam2001/pictures/JAB/

and

 http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/linuxatworkamsterdam2001/pictures/JAB/

.

If I were to appear in a suit to be on a debian booth, I would be
not as happy to help.

Bye,

Joost