[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Meeting Minutes - Dec 15, 2005

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

My $0.02:

Fedora should *always* have a booth in the .org pavilion.

When Red Hat and Fedora are together at a show, there should *always* be a 
sign at the Red Hat booth that says something like, "we are proud to be 
associated with FEDORA -- please visit them in the .org pavilion."

--g

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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Hi Alex and *!
> 
> Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 14:02 -0500 schrieb Alex Maier:
> 
> > FYI, at the past LinuxTag, 2005 in Karlsruhe, Red Hat has given Fedora
> > about 1/3 of the total of over 70 sqm (approx 650' sq) to Fedora, with
> > three dedicated machines and over 15 developers working shifts.
> 
> I was only one day on LinuxTAG last year -- I think three boxes and so
> many people are not needed. One box with two people or max two boxes
> with at least three or four should work fine.
> 
> > I am not sure it will happen this year, as I am no longer organize
> > events for Red Hat Europe, but if you are interested in manning a
> > station on Red Hat booth, get to me with a workable "business plan" --
> 
> GeroldKa, what do you think?
> 
> > i.e. what you plan to demo and how many people have you found to man
> > the booth -- and I will try and lobby for getting a Fedora pod on the
> > booth at LinuxTag (should it take place and should Red Hat go there).
> 
> Thanks Alex. But this was also a general question for other events,
> therefor I would still be interested in other peoples opinion. 
> 
> IMHO it not only better for both sides (Red Hat and Fedora) to be
> present on one booth -- it's probably also cheaper.
> 
> CU
> thl
> 
> > On 12/16/05, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 17:41 +1000 schrieb David Barzilay:
> > >
> > > > ####################
> > > > Presentees: GeroldKa, gregdek, ChitleshGoorah, warren, foonix, tchung,
> > > > mether, barzilay, abompard, sopwith
> > >
> > > Sorry, I could not join because the current meetings time does not fit
> > > with my day layout -- at 14:00 UTC I'm normally still at work, at 22 UTC
> > > I'm in bed already because I'm at work quite early in the morning...
> > > That's life...
> > >
> > > > .German LinuxDayin Wiesbaden
> > > > GeroldKa needs only accomodation and schwag for event
> > > >
> > > > . LinuxTag: 1 side opened costs 162 Euro per sqm and you need a minmum
> > > > of 12 sqm to rent for a booth
> > >
> > > There is one thing I'd like to know in this area (maybe it was discussed
> > > already and I missed it. I apologize if that's the case.): Red Hat is
> > > afaik present on some of these events, too (LinuxTAG for example). Greg,
> > > Alex, does Red Hat don't want us on the Red Hat booth or do we want do
> > > show independence with our own Fedora booth?
> > >
> > > Just to give and example: I visited LinuxWorld Germany this year in
> > > November as part of my job. I had appointments with Red Hat and
> > > Novell/Suse -- I talked round about 45 minutes with both these firms.
> > >
> > > We talked *a little bit* about Fedora at the Red Hat booth. But there
> > > was no real fedora presence. Red Hat and some partners only showed some
> > > things on the computers on the booth.
> > >
> > > In the appointment wit Novell/Suse the person I talked to often
> > > mentioned openSuse and that it is important for Novell/Suse. They even
> > > had a computer and a developer from Suse on the booth dedicated to
> > > questions from visitors on openSuse.
> > >
> > > Well you might get it: The Suse solution looked a lot more professional
> > > for me. So I always would prefer a dedicated computer to fedora on the
> > > Red Hat booth over a small presence at the community/.org-Pavillon.
> > >
> > > What do others think?
> > > --
> > > Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>
> > >
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