> Steve McIntyre <lea...@debian.org> writes: > > 4 Marketing stuff: > > a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and > > expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store > > it/them? Who organises shipping? > > I think this is something which we should pursue. I generally have the > impression that the Debian booth is relatively boring, while other > projects seem to be better in properly decorating, displaying their > products and attracting interest. We should definitely work on that - > currently, the Debian project booth is usually just like prejudices > against Debian: Highly technical, unattractive and of no interest to new > users.
While this is something Debian as a project should do at some extend, I think an Occam Razor should be applied in order not to blindly follow the corporatocracy to the extend when Debian looses its charm as a volunteer project and begins to resemble a corporation spending bloody bucks for preparing slick and artificial looks&feels, which is not a rocket science. Just for the record, I'm not attacking Ubuntu here, not at all, it is just a different plateau to exists. More long lasting, innovative, non-intrusive, and sometimes cheaper and easier to achieve ways exists to advertise a volunteer project like that: wearing debian/rules tshirts, having car rear window sticker of www.debian.org, using Debian on your portable computers... People jealous and really get interested if you are *different and innovative*, which could be considered as some sort of a rocket science;-) P.S. This is just my opinion, and I'm not trying to correct anything Marc previously wrote. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
