[Kde-events] my personal cebit review

[C.M.Lotion]

On di maart 20 2007, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 21:29:13 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > here comes my personal Cebit review, I was there from thursday to
> > sunday. The first two days we were in a tiny booth directly beside the
> > Debian booth. On saturday we changed with Franz Schmid (the Scribus
> > guy) to a bigger booth directly beside the Gnome booth. This worked
> > out really well, we didn't have problems with them, quite the
> > opposite, we had quite some fun and helped each other where we could.
> > We even gave them some Fedora DVDs so they had at least anything to
> > give away :-)
>
> Thanks for the review, it's really useful to share this kind of
> information if we want to improve future event attendance.
>
Agreed. Alexander, thank you for the review :-)

> > What was good:
> > --------------
> > -we had lots of CDs/DVDs to give away, mostly kubuntu and SUSE
Are there other distros, such as Mandriva or Xandros, that we should try to 
include for every event?

> > -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 :-)
>
> Really good to hear there's new people joining the team!
>
I second that. And I'm glad that there were so many people every day.

> > -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.
>
> I agree, suits can make a difference, and if someone wears them
> deliberately, that's cool =)
>
:-) Especially considering all the IT professionals that visit Cebit.

> > -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
> >   -tape, pens, some plastic name tag/business card holders (?)
> > -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 ! :-)
> >
:-) yeah, they really are the best

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

> > -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).
> >
> > -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
> >
> > -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.
> >
> > -we didn't have any "real" KDE poster to put on the walls, so we used
> > the T-shirts as decoration. This worked too.
> >
> > -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.
> >
> > So, now we only need a nice dot article about KDE at Cebit and we will
> > have had a really good event :-)
>
> I'm glad everything went this well. As I understand, the not-so-good
> ones are really minor things. Many thanks for everybody involved!
>
> > P.S. is this the correct mailing list or should I post it to kde-promo
> > ?
>
> This list is fine.
How did the accomodation work out? Was it a success?

Regards,

Claire

-- 
Claire Lotion

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