All of your points were taken care of to a greater or lesser degree. If it didn't feel like it was all covered it's because I got no help in preparing it. Planning needs to start in November and last minute requests for demos but without machines to show it on are no use.
Jonathan On 3 February 2016 at 19:04, Adriaan de Groot <gr...@kde.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2016 12:58:58 Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > We had a good presence at FOSDEM this year. Here's some notes while I > > remember. > > > > Stall: > > One 1 short table this year. We had a nice setup with ODROID board + > HDMI > > monitor (alas it wasn't a monitor which could tilt) to demo low cost > > computers can run Plasma. We had my laptop for KDE neon and a Nexus 5 > in a > > stand for Plasma Phone. a4 display stands had colour sheets describing > the > > three projects. Me and David brought the kit on the train (which is > faffy > > but much easier than taking kit on a plane) with Rohan bringing his > ODROID. > > Thing to remember for next year: > - extra power bar (3 outlets, maybe 5) > - a good charger for the phone (charging from the laptop wasn't enough to > keep it on all the time) > > > > I bought two large display banners for KDE and KDE neon which I've taken > > back to my house, I need to reply to e.V. treasurer about getting those > > paid for. I also bought stickers for KDE (name badges and to give away) > > and KDE neon and have taken the spares back home. I also bought the > money > > box, a4 display stands, pens, tape and brought power extensions. > > The name stickers were really nice (flying Konqui) and well received. It > made > up for out lack of uniformity at the stand (like many of the other stands > had > all their peeps in the same shirt). > > > > We had t-shirts which Jose brought along from those left over from > Akademy > > as well as a money box and leaflets. > > The Frameworks leaflets were really useful to hand out as a means of > explaining > "these are libraries that everyone can use in their Qt applications". > > The T-shirts were a bit of a mixed bag. Some sizes were quite > underrepresented. The very nice KDE India T-shirts could have sold more -- > which you point in the sales lists. > > > Saturday sales: > ... > > We took over 300euro on the Saturday which Jose took home. > > Sunday we ended up with over 320euro which Jose also took along with the > > sales figures. > > > > Jose can you post the sales figures here and confirm the amount you're > > transferring to e.v.? > > Don't forget the floats added to the cash box. You may consider mine my > cash > contribution to KDE e.V. for this year. > > > Saturday party: > > I booked the first floor of La Paon again in Grand Place. No sponsors > this > > year so I took 20euro off everyone who attended. My guess of 200euro > worth > > of finger food seemed to work very well. > > It was a bit short of chunchy greasy bits, though. I would have liked > something warm (or maybe I wasn't paying attention and it all got gobbled > up). > From a social perspective, perhaps an introduction could have been held. I > *think* I knew everybody there, but would have liked a moment to > double-check. > > > We had 22 people pay for food, > > less than last year I think which is to be expected since it was charged > > for. After food was served I used the extra money to buy an additional > > couple of beers for everyone. > > The best and fastest way to get served was to hand the waiter a 20 and say > "beer". That meant no change, no fuss, no muss. And five decent beers. > > > We had three talks in the Desktop room (more than any other project I > > think) which were well received, KDE neon, WikiToLearn and CMakeDaemon. > > > > A telegram group was useful to keep in contact with people throughout the > > weekend. > > Yes, the group was very useful. Also note: > > - there are *two* locations in Brussels with an Ibis Hotel next to a > Novotel > - Grand Place is very large. A better meeting spot is "in front of Le Roy > on > Grand Place" > - get a hotel around La Brouckere, it's very convenient for evenings and > for > gettting to the venue. > > > Some things I personally think would improve the stand: > - double- and triple-check who is going to be at the stand. I know this is > hard at FOSDEM. I tried to be there a bit, and felt confusedly guilty about > also running off to talks or to hang out with Paul. > - if you're *not* at the stand, it might be better to congregate > elsewhere. > We often had a knot of KDE-branded (e.g. name-sticker) people in the > corner -- > me included -- who weren't accessible because of in-crowd chatting. That > looks > a little unfriendly. > - Remember to arrange floats (change for in the money box) ahead of time. > - Make a pot of money at the beginning of the day. Appoint one person > runner > to get water/coffee/sandwiches. > - I should have asked for a "what's the spiel" explanation at the > beginning > of the weekend. It took a while before I heard -- from Rohan, Dave and Jon > -- > what that phone-thingy was and how to explain the Odroid. Also for > old-timers > like me, a reminder of terminology. Like: "Here we have Plasma Desktop > running > on low-powered (not cheap!) hardware. Here we have Plasma Desktop plus a > bunch > of KDE Applications running on a laptop. Here is Plasma Mobile on a Nexus > 5." > > > General thanks: > - general (3-star) thanks to Jon for overall handling this year's FOSDEM > presence > - major thanks to Rohan and Dave, who seemed to be there all the time and > always smiling. > > Funny bits: > - GNOME ran their demo machine off of my laptop's power cord all weekend. > - Dave knows that I have Dave-commanding glasses that I can glare through. > > [ade] > > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
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