On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 06:01:57PM +0300, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:45:38PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > All in all, that were great four days. I don't know about official > > numbers about visitors or anything. But I do know that we all had fun, > > that we've met new, interesting people as well as "the old guys" from > > the last few years. I'd like to thank Annette for making the effort and > > organizing everything, Alex for shipping the merch stuff to us, and -- > > of course -- all our helpers at the booth, be that DDs or total newbies. > > I can't list them all -- sorry -- but rest assured, we've had an > > interesting, refreshing, and big team of about 10 to 15 people everyday > > who offered their help. Everyone (as far as I know) was free to see > > whatever talk they liked (except for Zack's talk that everyone wanted to > > hear), and we still kept the booth running. Thanks to all of you who > > registered on the wiki page [3] so we were able to plan; thanks to all > > who just jumped in whenever it seemed neccessary. And special thanks to > > those who worked just as hard and literally just started getting to know > > Debian better! > > ... and, while we are at it, thanks for this report Jan. I always found > amazing to read about community feedback at events where Debian is > present "in person". I sometime do a lousy job at reporting about the > events I attend on behalf of Debian (shame on me!), but reading reports > like this one reminds me how useful they are. Please keep them coming > and encourage other Debian representatives at events to do the same.
Absolutely. That's basically something I've learned from you: communicate about the good stuff. :) > For what concerns my own LinuxTag recap, I've unfortunately being able > to attend only one day (Thursday) due to family and work business. > Nonetheless I've been amazed by the warm welcome of LinuxTag-ers for > Debian, something I've also experienced in past LinuxTag editions. Even > though my talk has been scheduled in a not entirely appropriate track, > i.e. the "business application track" [1], and on a non week-end day, > the room was quite packed and people seem to have appreciated yet > another edition of the song & dance in spreading the verb about Debian's > grand role in the ecosystem of Free software. Various people told me > they were looking forward to attend the other two Debian-related talk by > Alexander and Moritz (see [2] for pointers to the various Debian-related > events at LinuxTag 2011). > > To conclude and disclose, I hereby thank LinuxTag organization for > sponsoring my travel attendance to the conference. +1 Organization was very friendly and worked out great for all of us. Hauke PS: I prefer Hauke over Jan :) -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <j...@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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