Re: Linux World Expo 2006

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Well, you pretty much covered everything I was going to mention!

Unfortunately we didn't win any awards at the Linux Awards on Wednesday
night (GNOME was nominated for best open source project 2006). The
second day at the expo was a bit quieter, but still fairly productive.
The "wall of love" was covered in post-its by the end of the expo, and I
will take the time to get all the suggestions written up.

All the Guadec leaflets went, and all the GNOME leaflets were taken. The
Guadec leaflets looked like this:
<http://www.thos.me.uk/Guadec/guadec-flyers.jpg>

We now need to make sure the guadec.org website is up to date and
maintained. I have done a little bit of tinkering, but if there is
anyone with more drupal/marketing experiance, it would be good to get
more people involved. Let me know if you can help.

We also need to get moving on the gnome-uk website again. It would be
nice to use a wiki, so if anyone would like to set up a test site with
any popular wiki software, we could then get it moved either to hosting
on the gnome.org servers, or elsewhere.

-Thomas

Michael Wood wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Here is a brief report on gnome-uk at LinuxWorld expo 2006
> 
> The GnomeUK stand had a good location this year, on the stand we had the 
> 2 TFT panels, 1 desktop (these from the Gnome event box) and some of our 
> own laptops.
> 
> We also had prepared leaflets on "why chose gnome", "what is gnome" and 
> importantly the GUADEC leaflets. Thos and I had made up a few posters on 
> some of the popular gnome applications which had snippets of information 
> about them.
> 
> This year we also had a special "wall of hate/love" which we invited 
> current gnome users to put their comments, hates and loves about gnome. 
> This went down pretty well and helped us to actually get down the 
> feedback without spending a lot of time writing it down ourselves etc.
> 
> The desktop from the gnome event box had been pre installed with the 
> latest version Mandrieva and was running XGL and compiz. We also had a 
> laptop linked to one of the
> TFT monitors which were running AIGLX and beryl/emerald on ubuntu edgy.
> 
> Having the fun graphics and showing some of the actual practicalities of 
> the new abilities that XGL* introduces brought a lot of attention to our 
> stand. At peak times we had quite a crowd, dealt excellently by the 
> tireless by the UK Gnome team on the stand.
> 
> A lot of the discussion between the members of the public were a lot to 
> do with explaining that gnome was the desktop environment. IE a lot of 
> them had used distributions that used gnome but had not realised that 
> gnome was a separate entity from the distribution it's self, We also 
> demoed what people will be able to expect from Gnome 2.16 and future 
> desktops (via XGL). Concentrating on the ease of use that has now come 
> upon us via the gnome desktop, such as Gnome VFS, USB memory sticks auto 
> mounting and so on.
> There were a few technical queries about how to do certain things which 
> we were either able to solve or we put them up on our  "wall of 
> hate/love" .
> One of the common questions was what makes gnome different from KDE, 
> more specifically what makes it better, these are quite difficult to 
> answer I find because it is a lot down to personal taste. Possibly in 
> future we ought to generate a sheet that mentions things that makes 
> GNOME different from other desktop environments in a direct comparison.
> 
> We collected quite a lot of email addresses and business cards for 
> keeping people in touch, especially in terms of information regarding 
> GUADEC, which quite a few people had heard about but didn't know it was 
> going to be in the UK (Birmingham 2007).
> 
> Well done to everyone involved, another successful LinuxWorld expo.. 
> Bring on GUADEC 2007 !
> 
> 
> 
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