Hello Adriann, thanks for the report!
We could have a calendar of events where KDE will attend, and work with
Promo before them to set up material and promo actions.
What do you think?

Cheers,

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Monday, 5 February 2018 20:29:34 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> >  - The live art demo of Krita on Saturday was *amazing*. The artist was
> kind
> > of hidden behind the monitor, not everyone understood that it was live
> > sketching.
>
> Yes, that got lots of really nice reactions, including a guy accosting me,
> saying, "But, but, but -- is this a free software _painting_ application?
> I've
> been looking for one for over five years!" The actual subject of the
> painting
> was tied-in to a meme that was doing the rounds that weekend, with Krita
> being
> Lawful Good.
>
>
> > # The what can be improved
> >
> >  - Sticker situation (there are other messages about that, too). I remain
> > envious of GNOME's sticker selection.
>
> Let's engage with our community here. It's not that expensive to produce
> stickers, and we could do with some different designs. Konqui, Katie,
> Kiki, or
> even laptop cover stickers with the kiki as a paladin + fire-breathing
> konqui
> Wolthera did live, this year :-)
>
> >  - Stickers, T-shirts maybe (I do prefer to be a tech stand)
>
> I kind of got the feeling that some stands -- gnome, fsfe -- were just
> there
> to sell t-shirts, not to tell people about their projects.
>
> >  - We should have had a plan on what to show on the screens of the
> desktop
> > and laptop machines at the booth. A movie with recent features / neat
> stuff
> > would have been a good addition.
>
> Yes, indeed. There are people in our community who can produce that kind of
> stuff -- leinir, for one! And a good show-reel will draw in people.
>
> > Some more applications with actual content
> > would have been nice (like Krita).
>
> My spiel was, like, you know KDE? Well, we're a community making awesome
> stuff. A desktop, sure, and a video editor, and an ide, and a painting
> application and so on.
>
> --
> Boudewijn Rempt | https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org
>
>
>


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