[IAEP] [Marketing] Linuxtag - Résumée

[David Farning]

2009/6/29 Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>:
> I'm exhausted and even asked myself if it was worth it I was so tired
> last night. But this morning I was recharged!
>
> I have posted a link to my Flickr photostream
> (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656470@N02/sets/72157620524327203/) at
> the bottom of the LinuxTag 2009 page.
>
> Simon you did a fantastic job coordinating all the loose ends, I
> really appreciated how you helped me out with logistics & lodging
> problems.
>
> Although lugging 3 XOs and 5 netbooks around was difficult (especially
> at the airports), the impact of running Strawberry on a table full of
> machines was undeniable - all visitors understood immediately Sugar on
> a Stick's ability to run on different hardware. The teachers liked
> comparing the netbooks (all preferred the XOs).
>
> I salute James for shimmying up the vertical poles to tape Sugar Labs
> balloons to the "roof" of the booth, they were visible as Fun Central
> from all the way across the hall and every kid who visited got a
> balloon or two (appreciative mothers). James was tireless in
> explaining Sugar to attendees, we had a steady stream of visitors the
> two days I was there.
>
> I even had a chance to act up by running the Distance Activity with a
> booth visitor and backing into the center of the hall while the XO
> buzzed, a bit of street theater - everybody dropped what they were
> doing to see what was going on.
>
> Our "boothmates" were very friendly which made everything easy.
>
> I left one of the booth banners and a balloon tree (shoebox with
> plastic pieces to stick balloons onto) with Simon as a booth kit so we
> now have one in Brussels/Paris and one in Berlin.
>
> It was great Adam was there and Martin Langhoff too for awhile, many
> visitors had questions about OLPC and the XOs and I was able to
> introduce them.
>
> I loaded many sticks (even had a short queue for awhile), I tested
> each one by rebooting, entering the visitor's name, letting them
> choose their color, and setting their language (not always German by
> the way). They all seemed excited to walk away with a Strawberry
> stick.
>
> In the improvement department, maybe just "bigger booth" ;-) but of
> course that would also mean "more booth helpers". With more space, we
> could have scheduled a little "class" event, although the venue was
> not overcrowded - everyone who was interested in Sugar did get a
> chance to speak to one of us.
>
> Thanks again Simon, I feel it was a real success and I think
> datelining the press release from LinuxTag was the right thing to do
> (try a Google News search in English on "LinuxTag" you'll see what I
> mean)

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick

is now the number two entry when googling for 'soas'!

david

> Sean
>
>
> 2009/6/29 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Linuxtag (
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 ) is
>> over - time for a résumée:
>>
>> I am very happy about how the conference went. The Sugar Labs booth team
>> were good representatives of a community that is easy to approach. I
>> want to thank the team in spreading the word:
>>
>> * Tony Anderson (deployment expert, hacking ShowNTell in the last minute
>> to give a demo)
>> * David Van Assche (the OpenSuse link, more than 50 activities in the
>> OpenSuse Soas version)
>> * Sean Daly (marketing expert, table full of netbooks and XOs)
>> * Sebastian Dziallas (Mister "Strawberry")
>> * Bert and Eva Freudenberg and the Squeak Team ("Etoys can do more than
>> the car example")
>> * Adam Holt (OLPC XO 1.5 expert)
>> * James Zaki (a constant in demonstrating the learning platform )
>>
>> Many thanks to Harald and all of the Skolelinux team, X2GO and
>> Linux4Afrika for being our friendly booth partners. And one thing I was
>> really happy about was the booth material we had available. Two banners,
>> two posters, branded balloons, Flyers in <a
>> href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/0/02/Flyer_englisch.pdf">English</a>
>> and <a
>> href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/c/c4/Flyer_deutsch.pdf">German</a>,
>> generic business cards, a table full of different laptops running Sugar
>> and a wide screen demo. Marketing wise this was a big step forward.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> If you have some pictures from Linuxtag please add links here:
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009#Impressions
>>
>> And feel free to add some comments if you liked it - what was great
>> about it and what did not work, what could be enhanced next time.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Simon
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