From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FS0an-0006lF-CX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:42:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k37Nfnt6032381; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:41:49 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k37Nd5vL002230 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:39:05 GMT Received: from uberpc.marples.name (uberpc.marples.name [10.73.1.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id A73D0190033 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:39:05 +0100 (BST) From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:39:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200604071907.36596.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200604071907.36596.vapier@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604080039.05407.uberlord@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: b8e9e9b1-1eca-49d4-ba37-ea9b06eba9a8 X-Archives-Hash: c9f221c18fd9dc8bedc662106b7528e3 On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > - devs need to make personal Gentoo business cards cause when people ask > for *your* card, you look retarded when you say you have none (i know i > felt retarded ;x) Meh, you just look retarded :P > ... some just want a generic Gentoo business card and the > ones we had were great, but when you get into real conversations, the guy > wants to follow up later with *you* Quite an important point, but to have that fuzzy corporate feel then the cards should look the same across the Gentoo devs at the event. Maybe the organiser could organise some cards? FWIW, after 6 years at my present company I got my first ever box of business cards with my name on em. Wow. I didn't take them out on company business because I hardly ever do, but the one time I did I looked a right tit for not having one! > > - in general, we had a pretty strong showing; in devs (i lub you all), in > users, and in people who had heard of us but were interested in learing > more or why we were "better" than say Ubuntu/Fedora/etc... (their words ... > it's best imo if you take the approach of how our distro *differs* rather > than falling into how we're "better" than others ... it's up to the user to > figure out which distro is better *for them*) Shows our users are mor intelligent than most :) > that's all i got, i'm sure the other guys that were there can chime in with > their experiences (i almost got rajiv to ride piggy back ... maybe next > year) -mike Sounds like you had a blast! How about a nice writeup for GWN? Thanks -- Roy Marples Gentoo Linux Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list