Talk is Expensive
This week there will be once again LinuxTag. It will be strange for me because this will be the first show in a long time for me without Martin. I think the last one without Martin was LinuxTag back in 2002 in Karlsruhe, so we all will terrible miss him. As a consequence Michl and me have to run the booth and keep the flock together this time. Lets see how that goes…
Because everything changes, we thought it might be a good time to try something different for the booth. Usually we ran the LinuxTag booth as pure info booth. So you put out a GNOME and a KDE installation on display and wait for people to come look at it. If you are lucky they ask questions and you are drawn into a conversation. We think this is what an exhibition is all about. But this was getting harder and harder every year. The reason for this is very positive one: Everybody knows Linux. There are nearly no people anymore on exhibitions that do not use it already. So instead of trying to inform people in general about the openSUSE distribution we will focus on communication and adapting openSUSE to your own needs this year.
To foster communication we will try to make hanging out at the booth as pleasantly as possible. For that we reserved space for some beanbags, a table, a whiteboard and other fun stuff. So an area where you can hang out and talk. We hope this will set a tone for the booth and makes everything hang a bit loose!
To help people adapting the openSUSE distribution we have a suse studio counter and a openSUSE buildservice counter and a table with some Laptops to try out the image or package people have build. Of course we also bring some Moblin/Goblin netbooks, can show you Linux in general and openSUSE Linux in particular, tell you all about the openSUSE project, answer all your support questions and so on and so on and so on….
