Re: Disappointment about the appearance of our CLT booth

[Michael Mohn]

Am 22.03.2009 um 11:26 schrieb Jan Wagner:

Hi Julien,


to your mail.


booth.

as I'm also one of the guys running the booth (on saturday), I've to add some I completly ack, that the booth _this year_ was far away from being perfect. Most reasons are already targeted. Just a short side note ... all people attending this year where also there in the last years, where it seems to be much better ... so ... it may not just be a problem of the people running the

"how can I contribute to make it even better the next event?"

how about that?



bye,

Michael.

i think we all should stop pointing fingers at anyone and start asking and answering the one question:

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Julien BLACHE wrote:

Andreas Tille <til...@rki.de> wrote:

There is no reason for developers to spend their time to
have smalltalk with people.

Those two lines really sum up your whole mail: you are way off.

Smalltalk is exactly what we're doing in this kind of

*users* community. If you're not interested in that, I suggest you
stick to high-profile technical conferences and don't run a booth
again.

exhibitions. That's called "meeting the community", the other one, the

CLT, you where using "smalltalk" in different understandings.

Knowing Andreas for a while and seeing how he is communicating every year at

Most people come to those exhibitions to have a look at this Linux
thing and ask basic questions, sometimes even stupid questions. We
answer them, show them our distro, walk them through some demos. If
they're interested, they'll want to take a CD/DVD (or a LiveCD) home
to try it out on their own.

Thats exactly what Andreas is doing there ... If you did read his mail

exactly what you define as "smalltalk".

carefully, he is asking people, why they has the need for an installation medium and is trying to find out, if they are really interested. That is

I appreciate that you gave some of your time to man a booth at an
exhibition, but really, if you don't enjoy it, don't do it again.

loves especially this event and even this was also my feeling.

standing beside/in from of the booth.

With kind regards, Jan.
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