On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:25:30AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Should I ask for a booth too? If I do, I'll need people to man it -- any > volunteers?
I'd volunteer to take a shift or two. > I wouldn't normally expect this to be a problem, but in this case, > people manning the booth will probably not be able to go to the DevRoom, > or vice versa. Also, given the fact that FOSDEM is a geek meeting, > where most people will most likely already know about Debian, I'm not > sure whether a booth is actually required. Thoughts? I think it would be nice to have one, most other project have one, too. Having a booth will get us much more in touch with other projects than just sitting in the devroom. I wasn't actually manning the booth last year, so I don't know how stressing that was. But especially at a geek meeting, manning the booth might be more fun than at a trade show, because you can have meaningful conversations with fellow hackers instead of 'Debian is Linux distribution... Ehm, Linux is an Unix-like Open Source Kernel... Hmm, Open Source means you can share the source...'-type stuff. Plus we could sell some goodies to fund a big party. If there are some goodies to sell, of course. That's just my opinion of course. If the others would rather use the devroom/hack around somewhere else, that's fine with me. I don't want to man the booth myself all the time :) Michael
