Re: FOSDEM 2019 stand applications

[Pjotr Prins]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:16:47 -0600
> Brett Gilio <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Bummer,
> > 
> > Did they provide any more feedback so that we can be more prepared
> > next year as more likely candidates?
> 
> No.
> 
> I think in general there is the problem of high demand and only a
> fixed size of stands. I'm not sure if there is anything we could do to
> improve our application text. On FOSDEM I will be asking other stands
> how they did it, how much effort they put into it and what tricks they
> have.
> 
> Anyway, it was a first trial, we didn't put too much effort into it and
> we can now just concentrate on the 2 Guix-days before FOSDEM.
> 
> Björn

Yes, it is very competitive.

What we still can do is have promotional materials and provide them
through an existing stand. There are probably a few sympathetic to GNU
Guix. There are also some common tables we can use for that and (of
course) the minimalism devroom on Saturday.

Pj.