[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Meeting Minutes - Dec 15, 2005

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Hi

Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 17:41 +1000 schrieb David Barzilay:

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> Presentees: GeroldKa, gregdek, ChitleshGoorah, warren, foonix, tchung,
> mether, barzilay, abompard, sopwith

Sorry, I could not join because the current meetings time does not fit
with my day layout -- at 14:00 UTC I'm normally still at work, at 22 UTC
I'm in bed already because I'm at work quite early in the morning...
That's life...

> .German LinuxDayin Wiesbaden
> GeroldKa needs only accomodation and schwag for event
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> . LinuxTag: 1 side opened costs 162 Euro per sqm and you need a minmum
> of 12 sqm to rent for a booth

There is one thing I'd like to know in this area (maybe it was discussed
already and I missed it. I apologize if that's the case.): Red Hat is
afaik present on some of these events, too (LinuxTAG for example). Greg,
Alex, does Red Hat don't want us on the Red Hat booth or do we want do
show independence with our own Fedora booth?

Just to give and example: I visited LinuxWorld Germany this year in
November as part of my job. I had appointments with Red Hat and
Novell/Suse -- I talked round about 45 minutes with both these firms.

We talked *a little bit* about Fedora at the Red Hat booth. But there
was no real fedora presence. Red Hat and some partners only showed some
things on the computers on the booth.

In the appointment wit Novell/Suse the person I talked to often
mentioned openSuse and that it is important for Novell/Suse. They even
had a computer and a developer from Suse on the booth dedicated to
questions from visitors on openSuse. 

Well you might get it: The Suse solution looked a lot more professional
for me. So I always would prefer a dedicated computer to fedora on the
Red Hat booth over a small presence at the community/.org-Pavillon.

What do others think?
-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>