Re: [Publicity] FOSDEM event report blog post?

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On ven, 2014-02-07 at 17:37 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah, that too... I had a couple which were literally trying to put a 10
euros note in one of my pocket... I mean, physically! :-P
> 
> As an aside, I think we need to have a better answer when people ask 
> that.  I was thinking something like, 
>
Indeed.

> "The XenProject is actually funded 
> by a board of about a dozen corporations, so we have plenty of money.  
>
EhEh, nice one!

> 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."
> 
==
A T-Shirt For a Bug Report
==

I like it! I think we can think about something nice and fun enough for
next round... Something like writing a 'fake' contract where the person
agrees on testing and sending a report, in return of having got the
t-shirt for free! Of course, we could put any kind of info about Xen on
the "contract" (including, of course, how to test it!).

The only thing I don't like is that it looks a bit of a waste to print
so much sheets... Perhaps we can use recycled paper. Or, if the event is
one of the ones with badges (like OSCON and LinuxCon), we can just scan
them and send the thing by e-mail!!

Ok... Better go downstairs cooking dinner, I guess :-P

Dario

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