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Today is 90210 day. http://bit.ly/aBysnN I really have nothing witty to say about that.

Sunday, March 02 2008

FOSDEM

Last week was FOSDEM weekend, and this year the GNOME project had a stand there. While initially I was a bit worried that we might be a bit understaffed it all worked out quite wonderful. Lots of great GNOME hackers, translators, artists and others pitched in and spend some time behind the stand.



We had some great merchandise at the stand. Consisting of buttons, flyers and even t-shirts for both male and female. And the t-shirts where hot! In the first few hours of FOSDEM we had already sold dozens of them, and while I'm not sure how many we had in total, the girlies where soon sold out.



We where also graced with a few OLPC laptops that belonged to 4 OLPC hackers who hung out at our stand. Informing the public and of course ourselves about the project and the machine. I can tell you, having OLPC's at your booth is a sure-fire way to attract lots of attention. Many people stopped at our stand to try them out and ask questions about them. Because we where of course manning the stand a lot of those questions got asked to us, which meant that I learned a lot about them in a short time :)



Also present was the GNOME wall of love, where people attending FOSDEM could write about what they loved and hated about GNOME. Lots of post-it's where written and eventually threaded discussion emerged, like a analogue mailing list as it where.

At the end I think our stand was a great idea and I'm sure our presence there had a positive influence on the way people look at GNOME as a project. If only because there are now lots of people who are proudly walking around in a GNOME t-shirt.

Also since my phone makes really bad pictures I took all the pictures from flickr.
OLPC - jcorrius
stand decoration - ebassi
gnome love wall - joseppc
t-shirt - zugaldia
wall post-it's - isriya


On other news i've updated the look of my website. The old look is still available if your browser supports alternative style sheets. But i doubt anyone would care enough :)

-edit-
Just to correct something Dave Neary wrote. I didn't co-ordinate anything. As far as i know all praise should go to Vincent Untz and Philip van Hoof.