* Andrew Cowie <andrew@operationaldynamics.com> [05/03/14 12:14 +1100]:
> One suggestion: last year the Gentoo contingent seemed to have missed
> out on the keysigning that was held at LinuxTag, which I thought was a
> rather large lost opportunity.

I took part the year before.  But did you ever attended a
keysigning-party with 200 persons?  You need a whole day for
signing the keys :-/

> Manning a booth always takes persistence and effort, but I would
> encourage a conscientious effort for any Gentoo devs or users at
> LinuxTag this year to participate in the keysigning.

By the way: We drank beer together, did we also signed keys?  ;-)

> ++
> 
> The other thing that often happens when you man a booth is that the
> people doing so end up missing everything else that is going on. As a
> generic example, last year Ian Murdoch gave a keynote (!) at LinuxTag,
> and none of the Debian developers who were busy manning their booth even
> knew he was speaking.
> 
> The technical conference side of LinuxTag is significant, and I
> encourage people to attend as many sessions as they can.

Well.  I like manning a booth or installing Gentoo on a HP
Quad-Opteron or even have a talk with an interesting person
more than watching a lot of talks.

But as we should be enough Devs this year, we probably could
prepare a schedule, so that some could visit some talks.
And as our experience for preparing booths grew within the
last two years we will do the presentation of Gentoo at
LinuxTag ever ;-)

Regards, Lars