Am 18.05.2018 um 04:05 schrieb Yao Wei: > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:55:47PM +0800, Yao Wei wrote: > Also one of the local sponsors asks that if we do something special to > job fair, comparing to the sponsor booths of the following days.
Usually we make the job fair explicit in the schedule (so prevent lectures to take place at the same time). That way everybody can attend and there is a good crowd roaming around the job fair for three or so hours. This is good for the attendees (not too explicit who's looking for new employment and who's only casually chatting to people) and good for the sponsors (good frequency, busy booths). The sponsor booths on the contrary are just "there" where people pass between lectures when changing rooms. They offer an opportunity for a company to present their products or give away something to attendees in return for interest in their company. We had this in all of the last three years and as I said during the meeting yesterday, results are mixed. The Luzbot (Aleph Objects) people (booth manned by a community member) in South Africa had great frequency for multiple days as the produced Debian logos in 3D and people were generally interested in 3D printing and their products. The SFL people in Canada had great frequency as they have a very good connection to the local community so many people came around to chat and they had T-Shirts to give away, too. The Purism people (also in Canada) demoed their laptops which made their sponsors booth rather full for any time between lectures or around lunch. They also agreed deals there with other companies / community projects so for them it seems to have been a very successful participation. Now other booths didn't work so well, I won't name these companies but there have been some (esp. during DC15) which were at some point not even manned (or womanned) by their own employees anymore because they got so bored with standing around having nothing to show and nothing to give out. So the story here is: For three hours with the common topic of "would we want to work together" (job fair) and table with a logo and two nice people works and gets us a positive experience for the attendees and the sponsors. A multiple-day sponsors booth needs to have a reason to exist that works for our attendees or it will be a very boring place and produce a frustrated (and thus likely not coming back) sponsor. So we should prevent that from happening. So if people have a plan to usefully fill days, happily give them a booth to inform, entertain, feed our attendees for these days. But if they just want to show their logo and a few product flyers save them the embarrassment and make it only a booth on open day (in addition to the job fair time). Best regards, Daniel
