On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:33 AM Charlie <h...@charlieluna.com> wrote: > the LA Comic Con's coming this weekend. What would be the consensus > for us having a booth there to promote Ubuntu?
A couple things to consider: 1. Planning a good booth takes time and a lot of work. If you're raising awareness to people who aren't part of the Linux/Open Source world already they will need some sort of literature to get more information, this can be in the form of fliers or something else that's printed. I'm not sure what literature Canonical produces these days to promote Ubuntu on the desktop (most of what I seen lately is product and cloud focused), but it would be worth looking into. It also takes time to get them printed, and it's very expensive to do them last minute, but VistaPrint can get you decent ones if you plan ahead. Pro-tip: Don't do them at home, as nice as your color laser printer is, it's near impossible to prevent them coming out looking amateurish, which isn't what we want to convey. You'll also need to make sure they have power (and internet?), plan out what nice-looking, interesting hardware to bring (see our desire to avoid looking amateurish), demos to show, and line up volunteers (you don't want to be the only one there, especially with hardware on the table, you need food, restroom, and sanity breaks). 2. Booths at big events are expensive. As a team, we don't have money and we are not a non-profit. There is a fund that Ubuntu Members can apply to for events: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-donations-funding/29 but these requests are weighed value-wise against others in the world-wide community, so you have to craft a good case for the expense so it's being used effectively. In the past, instead of going to expensive events like a ComicCon, we've done more local events. The Felton LUG used to have a regular booth at the local Farmers' Market, and those of us in the bay area used to team up with Berkeley LUG every year to do the Solano Stroll Street Festival. These events got us talking to regular people from our own communities about using Ubuntu, and they had people they'd met to come back to if they needed any help. I understand that the ComicCon and entertainment crowds are very different from a local event, so you'll know better how we fit into that environment, but cost of participation is a real concern. Please don't take this as an enthusiasm dampener, there is probably a way to make something like this work in the future :) Just sharing thoughts from experience. Ideas are good, keep them coming! -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
