[Kde-events] [kde-promo] OpenExpo in Bern Spring 2010 and opinion needed for the Open Source Forum in September in Zürich , was Fwd: Anmeldung OpenExpo 2010 und Ankündigung Open Source Forum 2010

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Klaas,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:48, Klaas Freitag <freitag at kde.org> wrote:
> Am Freitag 18 Dezember 2009 14:45:28 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber:
>> FYI. The Event is in Switzerland
>>
>> I will register a booth for KDE and Amarok, as usual, and we should
>> join forces with our little tables. Any other KDE-related project who
>> is interested to register?
>
> I certainly could present Kraft as KDE project along with some other
> linux tricks that proof that a switch to KDE and Linux is a very
> vital option also for people who do not love their computers.
>
> However Kraft is really targetted to small business and not a competitor
> to ERP stuff - not sure if the audience on OpenExpo appreciates that?
> It's probably more aiming medium and large business?

I don't think so. If you check the description on http://openexpo.ch,
the target is very widespread, from small and medium enterprises to
the administrations and, why not, the big business. Although I can't
remember having seen many big business people at OpenExpo. But then
Switzerland is a SME country, with a couple of very few big ones which
are either international players or already using OpenSource in some
of their deployments like "Die Post" (just a little bit, but it's a
start).

I think a Kraft booth would suit the Openexpo very well :)

It is important to note that they changed somewhat the form of the
booth, compared to previous editions: it is now a smaller round table
the height of a bar with 1 (one!) bar chair, a bit like the community
booths at CeBIT:
http://www.openexpo.ch/uploads/RTEmagicC_StandfotoOpenSourceProjekt.jpg


Also their requirements are a bit contradictory, since they expect us
to be "Community", we should target "Business", but without being
"Commercial" which disappoints me somewhat, since I thought that the
organizers new the difference between Commercial and Proprietary
better...

Just a warning about their offerings:
* "Gratis Drucken von A1-Poster nach PDF-Vorlage" means we get an
A1-poster in a dreadful quality, badly printed full of stripes on a
printer lacking color. We should have our own (well made) posters,
since from the past experience this is not going to improve, despite
having asked every time.


Reagrds, Myriam
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