Hi Julien, as I'm also one of the guys running the booth (on saturday), I've to add some to your mail. I completly ack, that the booth _this year_ was far away from being perfect. Most reasons are already targeted. Just a short side note ... all people attending this year where also there in the last years, where it seems to be much better ... so ... it may not just be a problem of the people running the booth. On Sunday 22 March 2009, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote: > > There is no reason for developers to spend their time to > > have smalltalk with people. > > Those two lines really sum up your whole mail: you are way off. > > Smalltalk is exactly what we're doing in this kind of > exhibitions. That's called "meeting the community", the other one, the > *users* community. If you're not interested in that, I suggest you > stick to high-profile technical conferences and don't run a booth > again. Knowing Andreas for a while and seeing how he is communicating every year at CLT, you where using "smalltalk" in different understandings. > Most people come to those exhibitions to have a look at this Linux > thing and ask basic questions, sometimes even stupid questions. We > answer them, show them our distro, walk them through some demos. If > they're interested, they'll want to take a CD/DVD (or a LiveCD) home > to try it out on their own. Thats exactly what Andreas is doing there ... If you did read his mail carefully, he is asking people, why they has the need for an installation medium and is trying to find out, if they are really interested. That is exactly what you define as "smalltalk". > I appreciate that you gave some of your time to man a booth at an > exhibition, but really, if you don't enjoy it, don't do it again. Judging from time spending with Andreas there, he stated many times, that he loves especially this event and even this was also my feeling. Even if he is working on a problem on his laptop, which assumedly was raised by a visitor, he is always so mindfull to recognize people needing help standing beside/in from of the booth. With kind regards, Jan. -- Never write mail to <waja@spamfalle.info>, you have been warned! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d-- s+: a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI- D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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