Hi, I just wanted to take the time to let everyone know how the GNOME booth at Eclipse Con went. Eclipse Con was primarily attended by windows developers. Andrew Overholt and I bought an inkjet printer to make professional looking CDs that we could hand out but I honestly didn't think that we would hand out too many. Because of time constraints, we ended up bringing the printer to the booth with the intention of burning/printing when we didn't have visitors. Well, it turned out the our CDs were quite popular and we couldn't burn/print them fast enough! In general people seemed genuinely interested in Linux and GNOME and had some really good questions for us. Billy Biggs (SWT developer) also helped with the booth and was able to answer all of the tricky SWT-gtk questions that came up. Here are some pictures of the booth: Me talking to our first visitors: http://www.bagu.org/pictures/EclipseCon-GNOME-booth1.jpg Andrew burning a disc at the booth: http://www.bagu.org/pictures/EclipseCon-GNOME-booth2.jpg Andrew showing off the CD: http://www.bagu.org/pictures/EclipseCon-GNOME-booth3.jpg As you can see we used Andreas Nilsson's posters from the MarketingMaterials wiki page, so thanks goes out to him. We had all three of them printed, but sadly only had room for two. The "Preferred language?" poster was a real hit. So many people came by the booth and were like "hey, that's my native language". It was a really good ice breaker for people who didn't really know much about GNOME or Linux. On top of the discs, we had a bunch of "Why choose GNOME?" flyers printed (also on the MarketingMaterials wiki page, thanks to Sébastien Biot for these) but if I had to run a GNOME booth again, I would probably not print very many of them out. It would be nice to have a few around, most people get enough marketing material from other booths that our paper stuff is probably just going to go into a pile and be tossed in the garbage. What we should have done is put a simple slogan on the CD and www.gnome.org so that they know where to go for more info if they want it. I guess that's about all I have to say. I ended up having extra ink and a few extra discs, so if you find yourself running a booth sometime, drop me a line and I'll see if I can burn/print you up some discs. Ben
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