Re: Summary of my participation in startup mixer in portland

[Bastian Hougaard <hougaard junior gmail com>]

I agree it definitely sounds like there's good opportunities participating in such activities in local surroundings. I'm going to see if anything similar is happening around me and be there.

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 1:32 , Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

So key learnings: 1) we need to explain GNOME to someone who doesn't know anything about GNOME or Free Software.. we had talked about a 30 second elevator pitch at teh engagmeent BOF. It might be nice to formulate something that I could use and laminate it in my wallet. :-)

Would love that too. I could use the elevator pitch to create a "what is GNOME?" video as a supplement, when we engage in digital events.

2) These things are important. It exposes our brand outside our sphere of influence. It's important to show our culture and community at these events.

I suppose we can also encourage wearing a GNOME shirt to such events? Just to have some sort of visual identity along with an awesome pitch.

-bastianilso