Good morning, * Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> [040629 01:41]: [ hacking area ] > Now that you mention it: Something that really annoyed me last year (I > didn't go this year, but I doubt this has changed) was the rude tone in > which the people that were not on their shift were asked to leave, even > while they were talking to visitors. > > Not a permanent solution, but workable: Have a *visible* hacking/hanging > out area where people can gather. Yes, visitors may happen to ask those > people some questions, but I think it is more important to show that > Debian is after all a community effort. Hiding everyone who is not > "official" is not a solution. We had barly enough space for us and the subprojects. I don't think Joey will give us a 50m² booth next year, so I think this won't be possible. Imagine you are a unexperienced user, visiting the booth of a software project, and what you find is a bunch of hacking nerds, don't even noticing your presence, and two or three guys standing arround, busy with other visitors. It might say "Debian is a comminoty effort", but it definitely tells our visitors, that we don't care much about them. > Duh. Nothing to say about that. At least I didn't hear about Debian > people offering them money, as some M$ people did a few years ago. Did they? Wow, that's bald, even for MS. > Having an own printer is IMO a necessity. Basically, it sucks when you > have pointed a visitor that had a concrete question to a web page that > answers it and you need to scribble down the URL; printing stuff out at > the booth helps a lot here. Printing flyers is something different, yes. IMHO it is a better solution to mail visitors URLs than to print out web pages. A printer is not a necessity, we had quite good boothes without one. I would say, it is a "nice to have", if you have the space and nothing else to show. Yours sincerely, Alexander
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