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#152 Advocate Swag Request for Czech LinuxDays 2019 in October

Closed: Complete 5 years ago by bt0dotninja. Opened 5 years ago by churchyard.

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What is the event and why should Fedora do it?

https://www.linuxdays.cz/2019/en/

This is the biggest annual Linux event in the Czech Republic.
Fedora hes reserved a booth there. Since the beginning of this conference/expo, there always was a Fedora booth there.

1279 visitors registered for 2018, but only ~1000 have come.

Event Date

2019-10-05 and 2019-10-06

Event Location

Europe, Czech Republic, Prague, FIT CTU university building

Swag needs:

tablecloth
rollup
stickers (~1000)
Fedora beginners guide (Czech ~100, English ~25)
whatever else you have

Budget needs

zero, zip, zilch, nada

Target Audience

Linux nerds. Mostly Czech. Around a thousand of them.

Full Name

Miro Hrončok

FAS ID

@churchyard

bex commented 5 years ago

I like this event. That is a lot of stickers though ... do we usually get to 1000 people at a 1000 person event? Typically you're lucky if you can talk to 15-20% of attendees.

churchyard commented 5 years ago

Those nerds are greeeeeedy for swag. If there is not 1000 stickers, I guess we can live with that. Use your best judgement please.

bex commented 5 years ago

For clarity, I am +1 to this event (so we can move it through the system).

As for sticker count, my judgement will be affected by what I can get easily to Brno in time. If I need to do more shipping/production, I'd like to hear support for going above the usual in this event (which I will not block - consider me +0)

bex commented 5 years ago

Also, I believe @eischmann has the rollup and CZ guides. He may also have the table cloth - I hope he will answer here

eischmann commented 5 years ago

Yes, I do have them.

jsmith commented 5 years ago

I'm +1 to the event.

As for the number of stickers, I find that 40-50% of the total attendees is usually a good number for stickers to take to this type of event.

bt0dotninja commented 5 years ago

Sounds great: +1

sumantrom commented 5 years ago

churchyard commented 5 years ago

This happens in 10 days. Let me know, how do to figure out the logistics.

bex commented 5 years ago

Approved. Is anyone coming from Brno who I can give swag too? If not, please open a budget ticket to get shipping.

Metadata Update from @bex:
- Issue assigned to churchyard
- Issue tagged with: needs event report

5 years ago

x3mboy commented 5 years ago

nb commented 5 years ago

churchyard commented 5 years ago

We've got:

tablecloth
rollup
stickers
Fedora beginners guides
1 Fedora beanie
pens, pins

Thanks.

churchyard commented 5 years ago

Hello. The event happened. We had a booth there with @vtrefny, @xberry and @harrymichal.

Some pictures from Saturday morning:

We handed out a lot of stickers and beginner guides. I took one package for PyLadies beginner courses (let me know if I should have not).

On Saturday, a lot of people came, mostly for swag. On Sunday, it was less crowded, but people had more interesting questions. We even met other Fedora contributors like @rebus or @svashisht at our booth during the conference.

We've presented CentOS 8 on one of the computesr and had interesting questions about EPEL 8 asked by some of the visitors, which was nice. Somebody even got a few CentOS stickers and left them on our booth (I wonder how we can request CentOS swag the next time).

Several pictures of SWAG from other booths, for inspiration:

Interestingly, openSUSE annually has a quiz with raffle for more expensive swag and it brings a lot of people to their booth at the raffle times. The quiz makes people learn stuff about openSUSE.