Re: "professional" debian booths (was: Re: booth planning LinuxTag)
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:51:16PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:21:51PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > > But that does not mean it should represent itself that way. Sure, there is
> > > no company named Debian, but why not looking more professional?
>
> Which did not mean wearing a suit!
>
> > If I were to appear in a suit to be on a debian booth, I would be
> > not as happy to help.
>
> Sure. And that's not my problem. I just don't think cultivating the hacker
> image is the correct way. Wearing a suit is neccessary for some businesses
> but not for an Open Source project.
OK, I spoke about wearing a suit as a worst case scenario example.
I didn't mean that literally. Sorry for being unclear. What do you mean
by 'looking more professional'? Wearing the same Debian Tshirts maybe?
I believe the fact that Debian booth people are non-paid volunteers
gives less room for things like booth policies. (Which doesn't mean we
couldn't agree on such a thing, of course.) The fact there generally is
less money for a Debian booth than for e.g. a HP booth, also contributes
to the difference in appearance.
Bye,
Joost
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