openSUSE:FOSSCOMM2014
openSUSE @ FOSSCOMM 2014
The openSUSE Project is planning to attend FOSSCOMM 2014
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General Information
Event website FOSSCOMM 2014
* Location: Lamia, Greece * Date: May 3-4, 2014 ** Booth Setup: May 3rd, 9:00-10:00 ** End: May 4th, 17:00 * Opening Times: |
* How many attendees does the event have? * Who is organizing this event? TEI of Central Greece * What are the target visitors for this event? students/IT professionals/FOSS contributors/FOSS users/newbies/etc * Registration required? If yes, link here * Who is organizing this event from openSUSE? |
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What will be there
- openSUSE talks:
- Talk 1
- Talk 2
promotion
Of course, events need to be promoted! Social media:
- See our social media contacts page to get the official openSUSE channels to promote your event
- what's the hashtag of the event? #fosscomm2014
- Tweet that #openSUSE is coming!
- what is the facebook event page? FOSSCOMM 2013
- openSUSE facebook event page, if relevant? We won't have. Planing to promote our presentations at the official fb page.
- mail to project, marketing and ambassador mailing lists done? Not yet (Feb 5th 2014).
- blogs: Connect, FORUM
Attendees, presence and travel info
Who will attend from/for openSUSE? Please fill in your name if you're going. And arrival & departure date & time so maybe you can share a train or cab, and we might organize a hotel together. In case you need travel support (see * below) fill in your estimated travel costs.
| name/nick |
From |
Arrival |
Departure |
Accommodation |
reimbursement needs* |
comment |
Helps at booth |
Gives a talk (about) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| User:Geeko | openSUSE LAND | Friday 17:00 | Sunday 18:00 | Hotel | USD 200 | I am green! | Of course I help at booth! | Will talk about oSC |
| User:AlexandroSuse | Athens, GR | Friday 21:00 | Sunday 18:00 | Hotel | Of course I help at booth! | |||
| User:koslibpro | Athens, GR | Friday 17:00 | Sunday 18:00 | Hotel | Of course I help at booth! | Will talk about something related. | ||
| User:Etern4L | Larissa, GR | Friday | Sunday | Of course I help at booth! | Maybe will talk about something related. | |||
| User:Drakevr | Larissa, GR | Friday | Sunday | Of course I help at booth! | Will talk about something related. |
- Add this if you need reimbursement for your travel and/or hotel costs. It is best to coordinate together to request travel support, for more information see the Travel Support Program page.
Material
Some material is needed for the booth setup. Please add things you are able to provide:
| What? |
Who? |
How much? |
Comments? |
|---|---|---|---|
Please add the things which you may require from the international team. Be sure to share this with the -marketing list!
The international team can (depending on how much time there is and where you are) send you booth kits. These contain at least 100 openSUSE DVD's per box and depending on availability also:
- 100 laptop stickers
- 100 flyers
- 3 posters
- some pluche geeko's and/or other small goodies
- green table cloth
- bootable openSUSE USB stick with marketing materials and ready-to-go demo setup
On average, you need 1 kit per ~400 visitors (???).
| # booth kits |
# t-shirts |
# other things? |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | will have only DVDs, oSC13 flyers, posters, cubes and buttons, openSUSE candies, less stickers, no pluche geeko and USB sticks |
After the Event
Try to answer the questions below and get us the answers to help us improve our support for you!
FOSSCOMM2014 // Event report edit
- About the visitors:
- What kind of people come to the event? Students, developers, end-users
- How technical is the event? Most of the talks were about professional tools and developement. Some of them were about the FOSS communities.
- How much is it about 'open source'? Most people know what Free and Open Source is.
- Attendance Details
- Tell us about the event The first day we had our presentations. It went pretty well.
- Did you have a booth and how did that work? Yes. Many people visited us asking us about 12.3 and conference.
- did we meet noteworthy people? From organizations-companies that might help us with the conference and many people that are thinking about presentation proposal at the conference.
- follow-up needed? Yes. I think we'll make the first step contacting them and then if we need more help, we'll ask marketing.
- What can we improve for the future...
- Would you go again? Yes
- What more can you do to make it better?
- Other Comments, like:
- The booth/team operating well? Pretty well
- Any interesting topic you heard:
- Any feedback from outside: We had pretty good presence.
Talking points
- Were you aware of [1]? Yes
- and if so, is there anything to improve? If not, how can we ensure people DO know about these?
Posters The posters have three goals:
- get people intrigued
- draw them to our booth to ask questions
- give something to our ambassadors to talk about to booth visitors
- note that ambassadors are often not as knowledgeable as the openSUSE developers are about what openSUSE does, so this is there to help you!
Questions:
- did you see people read the posters? Yes
- did they lead to questions, did ppl come to the booth? Yes, about the conference.
- did/can the booth people use the poster texts as 'talking points'?
- anything else?
Flyers
The flyers have three goals:
- give people something they can take home to study and find links to further information (we used to have people photograph the posters, that is why the flyers have the same information on them!)
- get people intrigued and get them to ask questions
- give something to our ambassadors to talk about to booth visitors
- note that ambassadors are often not as knowledgeable as we are about openSUSE and need this
Questions:
- did people take the flyers, read them? Yes
- did they lead to questions? Yes, about the conference
- did/can the booth people use the flyers as 'talking points'? Yes. Open a discussion with a visitor about the conference.
- anything else?
More stuff
- We also have DVD's, stickers and pluche geeko's and t-shirts. We know the pluche geeko's are popular. How about the DVD's, T-shirts, stickers and other things? Do you think they're worth the effort? Can we improve? What do others do?
We had also buttons about conference. Buttons and DVD were popular.
Common Questions Asked edit
Please tell us what commonly asked questions you've got!
- Questions about oSC13.
- About Raspberry Pi.
- Why install openSUSE and not other distro?
FOSSCOMM2014 About the presentations edit
Presentation materials go here if you have anything to share. Note that it is important to have things (translated, too!) in our github repo under marketing slides!
- What talks did openSUSE give
- Efstathios Iosifidis, Alex P. Natsios, Developement and use of Enlightenment on openSUSE,
- was it well attended? Yes
- link to slides
- Efstathios Iosifidis, Why openSUSE 12.3?,
- was it well attended? YES
- slides
- link to video
- Efstathios Iosifidis, Stella Rouzi, #oSC13 @ Thessaloniki, July 18-22,
- was it well attended? Yes
- slides
- Efstathios Iosifidis, Alex P. Natsios, Developement and use of Enlightenment on openSUSE,
Recordings of the event edit
Google Plus album
Event pics