Re: [Publicity] FOSDEM event report blog post?

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/07/2014 05:23 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> What changed, IMHO, as compared to last year, was how the project is
> perceived outside, by a crowd like the one attending FOSDEM (so Open
> Source advanced users and developers).
> Last year I got a couple of those annoying question like "why you're
> here, xen is not open source?" or "isn't xen dead already?" or "we don't
> need you, there is <another_open_source_virtualization_solution>, isn't
> it?".
>
> This year, _not_a_single_occurrence_ of the above questions and attitude
> showed up, which was very good! :-P
On the contrary, a large number of people wanted to *buy* t-shirts 
(i.e., asked how much they were and were surprised they were free). At 
least a handful of people actually tried to donate money to us! That's 
quite a big change.
As an aside, I think we need to have a better answer when people ask 
that.  I was thinking something like, "The XenProject is actually funded 
by a board of about a dozen corporations, so we have plenty of money.  
But what we can't really buy is people testing new Xen releases, giving 
good bug reports, and talking about Xen.  Those are all great ways to 
support the project."
Thoughts?

 -George

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