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Re: The .ORG Village
by Chris Howells on Friday 23/Apr/2004, @09:01

It was quite disappointing generally. As per usual, the Debian people had by far the nicest booth. We had a bookshelf we had to stand in front of, which was extremely inconvenient. Firstly there was no where to hide behind when you wanted a break, and secondly it was pretty annoying because it was hard to know _who_ exactly was interested in KDE and wanted your attention, rather than just wandering past. It's far easier if they can come up to an actualy booth and catch your eye rather than stare at your back while you finish doing whatever you were doing on your laptop.

Also the wireless internet was pretty crap, at least it existed though :)

Sharing a booth with GNOME is something that is being contemplated, we should then have a large booth with a decent number of visitors and the Debian people can go on a nasty small booth for once :-)

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Re: The .ORG Village
by Tom Chance on Friday 23/Apr/2004, @09:15

How did the Debian people get that great big booth?

I agree that theirs was about the only inviting booth in the area. Standing on the AFFS bookshelf, having three "staff" blocked the public from our wares entirely, so that we had to keep moving around to let people pick up leaflets.

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Re: The .ORG Village
by Chris Howells on Friday 23/Apr/2004, @15:17

No idea, bribing the .organiser maybe? :)

I guess it was just envisioned that they would have the largest number of people visiting and therefore they should get the nicest place to go. Which I think is unfair -- the other stands would have had more visitors had they actually been nicer :)

While I certainly enjoyed the expo for its social aspects (was greating meeting other kde-gb people and having a drink or two or ten with them afterwards), I don't feel that things went generally as well as the last expo.

Oh well I'm doing a bit of thinking and having a look at ways that it could be improved.

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Re: The .ORG Village
by George Wright on Saturday 24/Apr/2004, @03:57

Yes, the size of the Debian booth was unfair; perhaps that's why JD spent so much time there? :)

The expo wasn't too bad - I agree that the booth was pretty rubbish though, and the less said about the wireless internet the better... Still, we had our Irn Bru and IRC - what more could a geek want?

George

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