Re: linuxword update
- To: Debian Publicity <debian-publicity@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: linuxword update
- From: Darren Benham <gecko@benham.net>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:12:44 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19990223101244.B18692@gecko.fortunet>
- In-reply-to: <19990222235546.B26135@humble>; from G. Crimp on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:55:46PM -0800
- References: <19990222102331.A30788@kitenet.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.990222182500.20407C-100000@gateway.targonia.com> <19990222235546.B26135@humble>
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On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 11:55:46PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote:
> I think it would be good to have a machine available to show an
> installation, but I don't think we can count on doing a demo. My experience
> from a couple of shows up here is that it is next to impossible to do demos
> for even a small group. Too much noise, too many distractions especially on
> a monitor that is crowded as soon as you get two heads in front of it. Most
> people are going to want to talk and hear why they should use what we're
> offering.
>
> Some really catchy stuff running on X couldn't hurt, but likely will
> serve more to show after the passer-by has been hooked in. I think we will
> attract more people by being open and welcoming than from anything we might
> have showing on a monitor (except maybe for the geeks who can figure out its
> significance immediately). Apparently passers-by decide in some
> ridiculously short interval (I think it is less than three seconds), from
> the moment they set eyes on a booth, if they are going to stop and talk.
>
> In the overall sea of colour from fancy booths and back drops,
> monitors are pretty insignificant. We should probably be thinking as much
> about how we present ourselves and what we will promote about Debian, as
> much as what we will have on the boxes. Might seem rather silly, but we
> have found that something as simple (and backbreak tireing at the end of a
> long day) as making sure not to have our backs turned to the aisle and
> making eye contact got us more people than fancy stuff on boxes.
>
> As for what to have on the glass once they are in, I will defer to
> the rest of you. I am as yet only a wanna-be-geek, and not bleeding edge.
> You people probably know much more cool stuff than I.
>
> Gerald
I have to agree with Gerald. Getting together some presentation stuff that's
verbage... what are we as a group going to talk about? Push? I'm not sure
we can count on "demos" that are more than "a quick look" into the system
- or - unless we have a person doing a "demo" that's ongoing. When he gets
to the end, he starts over and he relies on other people around him to
actually interact with the visitors
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