Re: [Publicity] FOSDEM event report blog post?

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 07:23:09PM +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> 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

Beer money!  I should sooo have been there 

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