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on parle de nous... ---------- Message transmis ---------- Subject: Report on LDP at Montreal Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 06:14:24 -0700 From: David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org> The LDP was present in force at the Linux Expo in Montreal, Canada (April 10-12, 2000). Six LDPers attended and manned out exhibit booth there: 3 from France: Guylhem XXXX, Aranud Claden, and Xavier Salanie 2 from the USA: Gregory Leblanc and David Lawyer 1 from Canada: Gary Lawrence Murphy Since most people in Montreal speak French, it was nice to have French speakers at our booth. Although our booth was off to the side and not in the main traffic stream, it was still fairly well attended and we gave out over 350 half-sheet brochures telling about the LDP. We also displayed printed examples of HOWTOs but unfortunately visitors sometimes thought they were handout sheets and took the first page. Was it worthwhile? If one compares the time and money spent to attend against the benefit to the LDP, then it wasn't worthwhile, especially in view of the fact that we had six people there. But since we had so many people there and only one or two was needed to man the booth, there was time to visit the other exhibits and attend talks. Thus it may have been worthwhile if one considers the benefit to the individuals of attending. There was press coverage of the Expo and I don't know if we were included. There were also talks given by us, but attendance was poor (only several people outside of the LDP) since it was not in the printed schedule. MandrakeSoft paid for the airline tickets (and hotel bills ?) of all LDP attendees except for Gary Murphy from Canada. Should we go to future expos? I think so provided we do it better next time. We needed some large banners to put up at our booth even though the expo had put our name in bold letters above our booth (and we put up some sheets with the Linux penguin on it). Also it would have been nice to have had some terminals displaying our documentation so that people could sample it. However, we would not want people to spend a lot of time reading the documents there as they could do this elsewhere (at their home or office). We did get at least one comment regarding documents being out-of-date. -- David Lawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to ldp-discuss-request@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org------------------------------------------------------- -- <http://www.dodin.net> <mailto:jdanield@dodin.net>QUI EST CET HOMME ? Aidez-moi à le retrouver WHO'S THAT GUY ? Help me found it http://www.dodin.net/serge/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Aide sur la liste: <URL:mailto:linux-31-help@savage.iut-blagnac.fr>Le CULTe sur le web: <URL:http://savage.iut-blagnac.fr/>