Your reply sounds like you're taking it as criticism and it's not. It's feedback to do better next time :)
-- Nicolás 2016-02-03 17:52 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org>: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community