[Kde-events] my personal cebit review

[Joerg Hoh]

Hi Alexander

Thanks for your review. Some points from me:

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 21:29, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> What was good:
> --------------
> -we had lots of CDs/DVDs to give away, mostly kubuntu and SUSE
> -our booth was very well staffed, every day at least 4 people
> -with Melissa, Tobias and Steven we had three first-time contributors who
> did a good job :-)
> -every day at least two people from our booth staff were wearing some kind
> of suit or at least a jacket (e.g. as opposed to the Gnome or Debian
> booths, only T-shirts there). For Cebit this is a good thing.
> -we had quite many T-shirts to give away against donations
> -we had some K-pins and a few K-bags to give away as donations
> -the boothbox which contained:
>   -two 19" TFTs, 2 mice and 1 keyboard where there

1 keyboard still lying next to me ...

>   -tape, pens, some plastic name tag/business card holders (?)

Did you miss something (beside the blank name tags)? 


> -we had a nice central flat
> -we had these nice KDE display systems, they are really looking good
> -we took quite some photos, I'll put them online somewhere
>
> Best of all: the great people manning the KDE booth ! :-)
>
>
> What can be improved:
> ---------------------
>
> -T-shirts, pins and bags were sold out on saturday afternoon, so having
> more of them would have been even better. But actually this were around 30
> T shirts, I think that's actually already quite much. But more K-pins would
> definitely have been good.

How many pins did you give away? 


> -having 3 or 4 clothes-hangers in the boothbox would be good, for putting
> the T-shirts on them

will be in the booth box next time.

>
> -we received KDE business oriented flyers on friday, this was better than
> none at all. They should now last for some time. We need more types of
> flyers (home users, developers, other contributors).

already adressed on kde-promo.

> -the Gnomes have a "what do like about Gnome / what don't you like about
> Gnome" wall, where visitors can write on colored sticky notes what they
> like/don't like. That's a good idea. Here's a foto:
> http://www.neundorf.net/pics/gnome-ideas.jpg

Yes, it is. I don't think that we should copy their kind of implementation ;-) 
Maybe a "My Opinion about KDE"-Box where people can drop in some written 
statements?

> -we had a A3 "poster" inviting people to donate. I'll put this into svn
> RSN. Having one in A2, maybe laminated would be even better.

Yepp, I'll put it on my list for Linuxtag.

> -we didn't have any "real" KDE poster to put on the walls, so we used the
> T-shirts as decoration. This worked too.

Yes, but we really need posters. That issue is already adressed on kde-promo, 
hopefully we're better off at Linuxtag.

> -we have an example user in svn with some data, but it could use some more
> work

> What was not so good:
> ---------------------
>
> -we didn't have generic KDE business cards/nametags. Having a bigger amount
> of nameless cards in the boothbox so that the booth people who don't have
> their own KDE business cards can write their name on them would be really
> good and shouldn't be too expensive either. So we had to "pimp" some of my
> cards with white tape to cover my name and write the respective names over
> it.

Ok, I will try to get more blank name tags.


> So, now we only need a nice dot article about KDE at Cebit and we will have
> had a really good event :-)
>
> Bye
> Alex
>
> P.S. is this the correct mailing list or should I post it to kde-promo ?

It's ok, but you can it also post on kde-promo, which may also be appropriate.

Jörg


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