Event Box feedback

[Stormy Peters-2]

I was at the Utah Open Source Conference and I have some feedback on the event box. I'm sure Christer has much more.

1. We need to include some points on what to say or demo - either in the event box or on the web. Christer and I put up the Friends of GNOME website and started a GNOME photo contest (for a tshirt). It would also be nice to know common Q&A. Christer can help but things like "what's great about GNOME 3.0", "why GNOME shell", "what language is GNOME written in?", "What is GNOME?", ... we could put these on the wiki for people to read before hand.

2. Demo machine. The demo machine needs to have a working distro with working wireless installed. The version of Fedora on it didn't work with the Broadcom wireless.

3. Handouts. We should provide a few handouts. Like Friends of GNOME and GNOME 3.0. (I grabbed a small handout from the FSF that explained why people should sign up for their donation program.

4. Freebies. There were some stickers in the box which was good. It'd be nice to have some pens or pins too. We also had a contest for the shirt.

5. BANNER! There's no banner in the box! Can some one design a cool banner? It'd be nice to have one cloth one that could hang behind or in front of table and one stand alone one. There's room in the box for them. At least for a cloth one.

6. Locks. The event box has spots for locks but no locks.

Other thoughts?

Stormy

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[Rosanna Yuen]

Hi Stormy,

Thanks for the feedback!

There's a lock for the box.  I had ordered it but they didn't tell me it
was backordered and it arrived two days after the box left.  I couldn't
buy one locally as the shaft of the lock has to be thin, long, and
relatively flexible.

In the past, people have printed out posters at Kinko's, used them, and
sent them back in the box.  They don't travel well.

At one point, we had a plasticky poster, but that was also destroyed at
its second conference.

Apologies on the state of the demo machine.  Jonathan was trying to get
it to work before he left town and thought he left it at a decent state.

The only other thing we used to have to hand out at conferences were the
Friends of GNOME pamphlets.  Those were very outdated, but new ones
would be very welcome!

Thanks,
Rosanna

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 14:27 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:

> I was at the Utah Open Source Conference and I have some feedback on
> the event box. I'm sure Christer has much more.
>
> 1. We need to include some points on what to say or demo - either in
> the event box or on the web. Christer and I put up the Friends of
> GNOME website and started a GNOME photo contest (for a tshirt). It
> would also be nice to know common Q&A. Christer can help but things
> like "what's great about GNOME 3.0", "why GNOME shell", "what language
> is GNOME written in?", "What is GNOME?", ... we could put these on the
> wiki for people to read before hand.
>
> 2. Demo machine. The demo machine needs to have a working distro with
> working wireless installed. The version of Fedora on it didn't work
> with the Broadcom wireless.
>
> 3. Handouts. We should provide a few handouts. Like Friends of GNOME
> and GNOME 3.0. (I grabbed a small handout from the FSF that explained
> why people should sign up for their donation program.
>
> 4. Freebies. There were some stickers in the box which was good. It'd
> be nice to have some pens or pins too. We also had a contest for the
> shirt.
>
> 5. BANNER! There's no banner in the box! Can some one design a cool
> banner? It'd be nice to have one cloth one that could hang behind or
> in front of table and one stand alone one. There's room in the box for
> them. At least for a cloth one.
>
> 6. Locks. The event box has spots for locks but no locks.
>
> Other thoughts?
>
> Stormy

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[Stormy Peters-2]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rosanna Yuen <zana@...> wrote:

In the past, people have printed out posters at Kinko's, used them, and
sent them back in the box.  They don't travel well.

Does anybody have the layouts they used for those? We could put them on the wiki for others.

Rosanna, do you have a list of everyone who's used the event box? We could poll them too.

At one point, we had a plasticky poster, but that was also destroyed at
its second conference.

I'm thinking those standard plastic type that most people have hanging in front of table booths ... if someone can design one, I can work on how to get it printed ....

Stormy

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