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Re: fosdem stand

And of course i forget to include the link.
http://www.stratos-online.nl/blog/02Mar2008

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 02:55 +0100, Erik Snoeijs wrote:

Hi,

So fosdem has come and gone and in the end my fears where unfound,
because there where lots of great people helping out.

But i noticed there hasn't been a fosdem post on panet.gnome.org, well
there of course have been mentions, but no real post about the stand.

I just made a post about it detailing a few things we did and what
happened, but my blog doesn't get syndicated by p.g.o. So if anyone
would be so inclined to just copy paste the fosdem stuff and post it on
p.g.o or link to it or whatever. Because i think having these kinds of
messages on p.g.o, sends a really positive message about what the people
of gnome are doing, and might inspire others to do the same.



On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 01:05 +0100, Erik Snoeijs wrote:

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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