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Re: Glad you did better than the US
by Sean Pecor on Saturday 02/Feb/2002, @13:55

On Thursday Jonathan ran KDE on his G4 laptop. That and Christopher Molnar's machine generated a significant amount of interest.

Immediately after the first wave of conferences got out on Thursday morning (around 10:30am), the booth got very busy. George, Jonathan and I were kept busy answering questions much of the time. Traffic was very high and didn't relent until close to 6pm. I think it went pretty well!

I'm definitely interested in doing NYC Linuxworld next year. However, I'll help make damn certain we have a proper booth setup. Next year if the following print collateral isn't designed and available I'll make it:

- Brochures. People were often looking for these, and they're great to bring back to the boss.
- CDs. This was a popular request on Thursday.
- Booth posters and such. Something to dress up the booth, make an impression for those not yet familiar with KDE.
- Local directory of KDE-friendly consultants. If a business wants to consider KDE then we should be able to have a directory they can take with them.

I'd be interested to know how Friday went.

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Re: Glad you did better than the US
by George Staikos on Sunday 03/Feb/2002, @07:35

Yes we definitely have to have those things. It was almost embarassing. Especially since Ximian/Gnome bought out as much of the good realestate at the show as they could. I got a real "talking-to" by the HP guys because of our lack of promotion at the show, and in general in North America. Most of the people at the show preferred KDE to Gnome or other desktops, but we just don't seem to have any working promotional infrastructure in North America.

We also need to have:

- Decent hardware
- A more formal demo (Actually, couldn't we now script this with dcop too? That would be nice)

Sean: Friday was busy and it was amazing when it just "suddenly" ended at 4:00 and I realized that I had missed lunch! The KDE booth was particularily busy with some guys keeping me talking for as much as an hour straight.

I'll try to send out an email to the list(s) about all the development and non-development issues that were mentioned to me on Thursday and Friday.

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