Am 22.03.2009 um 10:21 schrieb Julien BLACHE:
Andreas Tille <til...@rki.de> wrote: Hi Andreas,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 exhibitions. That's called "meeting the community", the other one, the *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. 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. Even on Solutions Linux, which is a professional exhibition, those are the people we see most at our booth. Enthusiasts make up for a small part of the people we get to see, and they come see us for a variety of reasons: saying hello, meeting the developers of their favorite distributions, giving some feedback on stuff they've done, telling us about Debian installations we couldn't even dream of, getting their laptop fixed, getting some help on packaging something, ... That's what these exhibitions are for. 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.
i completely agree. that should be, what is done on a fair. a lot of community work.get the people to remember you (and the project) as friedly, helpful and aware of the problems and so on.
bye, Michael.
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