Re: fosdem stand

[Erik Snoeijs <stratos stratos-online nl>]

Hi,

That's great. 
I don't think there are any timetables and i recon there won't be any
real need for it either. Well not officially on paper anyway.  We'll
probably work some sort of schedule out in the morning about who wants
to see what talk and how those clash. But mostly its just a matter of
are there enough people at the table for me to be able to leave it.

But if you just come to the stand when you feel like it, you can help us
out. Then when you want to see a talk or do something else you can just
go your way. Unless of course we collectively chose that moment to make
a mad dash for it and leave you there alone :)


On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:42 +0200, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> I can stay on the stand for some hours. Do you have any timetable with
> the volunteers allocation per day?
>
> --lucasr
>
>
> 2008/2/14, Erik Snoeijs <stratos stratos-online nl>:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  Now Vincent already mentioned this a few weeks ago on this list, but
> >  this year there will be a gnome stand at FOSDEM. Which is great and
> >  wonderful.
> >
> >  But currently on the sign-up page only 4 people have signed on to help
> >  attend to it and one of those has already noted that he won't be able to
> >  do this full time. Full time in this context meaning, i presume standing
> >  there all day and perhaps having a few breaks to visit some talk or
> >  whatever.
> >
> >  Now normally i'm quite used to this, and most of the time a 3 man crew
> >  will be enough to man a stand. However this isn't one of the small
> >  conferences i normally visit, this is FOSDEM. GNOME is a high profile
> >  project that will hopefully/probably be pretty busy throughout the day.
> >  3 People might be a bit more of a minimum then a maximum.
> >
> >  So what i'm basically trying to say is, we need more people!
> >
> >  Manning a stand isn't hard, although the fosdem crowd is a bit more tech
> >  oriented then most other events, no in depth technical knowledge is
> >  required. As long as you can tell the 5-ilionth person asking "if GNOME
> >  or KDE is better", that it's all a matter of taste, and that if they
> >  have good taste they should use GNOME*, you're pretty much set.
> >  And being xenophobic also isn't a problem, most visitors are more afraid
> >  of you then you are of them. Let alone that they would touch the laptop
> >  with the sign next to it "feel free to use".
> >
> >  And while i'm mad enough to dedicate most of my day being at the stand,
> >  you don't have to. Because if only 10 people (out of the hundreds** that
> >  will be there) help out for just a hour, i would be extremely
> >  grateful.***
> >
> >  So if your not afraid of badly dressed geeks ogling the stand, and
> >  bearded maniacs who try to explain why a graphical desktop will never
> >  work. Please, sign up and help out.
> >
> >  regards,
> >  Erik Snoeijs
> >
> >
> >  * Although the people using KDE seem to disagree on that bit.
> >  ** i have no idea how many gnome-ish people are at fosdem really.
> >  *** Not all the same hour please.
> >
> >
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