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Not only Novell
by Cyril on Sunday 15/Feb/2004, @09:03

> No commercial booth was pushing a desktop solution, except Novell
> which sported a strange combination of Ximian computers at the
> centre of its big booth and SUSE-KDE at the periphery.

Didn't really anyone notice that some french guys were advertising KDE workstations at AMD Booth ?

As for the 9600 visitors, it's not so bad for an event targeted mainly towards professionals (it was titled "open source & free software solutions for *business*").

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Re: Not only Novell
by Holler on Sunday 15/Feb/2004, @09:25

Oh, the KDE booth on the picture looks very bad. Why is there so much waste in your booth?

4 little small screens, you are so proud of them, so KDE france can't even afford a small projector to get a larger screen.

How do these guys look like? Is this a socialist summer camp or a technology exhibition? Usually the outer appearance and the consumer directed style of Linux exhibitors is awful. Autistism included.

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Re: Not only Novell
by Gerard Delafond on Sunday 15/Feb/2004, @10:19

>Why is there so much waste in your booth?
What do you mean ?
>4 little small screens, you are so proud of them, so KDE france can't even afford a small projector to get a larger screen.
Everybody can use a projector. There were many of them on the othe boothes.
But, not averybody can set a display cluster.
Hundreds of people stopped simply for asking some questions about multiscreen configuration.
And KDE has Xinerama capabilities which cannot be shown some othe way.
>How do these guys look like? Is this a socialist summer camp or a technology exhibition
How do you want we look like ?
Don't you like T-shirts ? I prefer 15 people waking around in the exhibition in KDE T-shirts than in personal chothes, even if they are very smart.
Criticisms are easy, but say what you think is better. If you have good ideas, just say it.

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Re: Not only Novell
by Philippe Fremy on Monday 16/Feb/2004, @01:54

I don't like the tone of your post.

How about joining next time and organising a booth instead of criticising. Task include: bringing a fridge, preparing the T-shirts with KDE logo, the sweaters with KDE logo, the beer holder/ash tray with KDE logo, the big posters on the wall, brining a huge case with a lock, getting fined because the park place close to the exhibition are reserved, contacting distributions to get computers and screens, installing the cluster of 4 screens with 4 video cards of 4 different brands (for me, it is a wonder that it worked), taking 3 days off just to manage the booth and paying for all of this on your own money. Kudos to Gerard Delafond who did all that.

> KDE france can't even afford a small projector to get a larger screen.

Indeed, no. How about a donation from your part, if you think this is worthwhile. But maybe socialists summer camps are not worth your money.

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Re: Not only Novell
by annma on Monday 16/Feb/2004, @09:34

It all looks very impressive.
The merchandise sold here is wonderful and no doubt it took a fair amount of time to put all that together.
The booth is very nice and having space allows people to walk around easily.
I guess, Holler, that you never put together a booth for an Open Source Project. Stupid criticism is very easy and does not lead anywhere.
Thanks to the French team for the very nice report. We all hope that Open Source Software will find more adepts in France, especially within the French administration.

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Re: Not only Novell
by Sergio on Tuesday 17/Feb/2004, @02:50

Calm down. What do you do for KDE besides writing this kind lame and useless rants about what other people do for the community?

Congratulations to the french KDE team

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