[gentoo-project] Gentoo miniconf postmortem

["Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@gentoo.org>]

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Hello guys,

First I would like to say big thank you to Amy (amynka) for prodding and
nudging people and working on the booth.

Next in line is Christopher (chithead) whom also handled our booth and even
brought with him fancy mips machine and monitor all the way from Berlin.
Kudos for that :)

And last I want to commend all the people giving the talks during the day.

In the end we did bit Q&A with users, which was short so rest I spent
asking how we should do the miniconf and what would be desired.

So first lets take look on what we had and what we can do there to make it
even cooler for next time:

1) Booth:
Place where we share/sell SWAG chat with community:

People stopped by, took some stickers here and there and watched the mips
boxie we had there.

I have to admit that I screwed up with our materials a bit and we didn't
have much on the stand. I thought we have more leftover stickers/brochures,
but we had just few and super plan to get Gentoo t-shirts failed me
miserably... :(

Future posibilites:

Someone from Gentoo ev. could arrive too and actually sell some stuff like
cups/tshirts as we seem unable to get something working here in Czech
republic. With that we would have really pretty booth :)

People were quite interested in our merchandise and are even willing to buy
it.

2) Track:

We had one day of talks, and basically everything went smoothly and videos
will be available in near future on youtube. I will try to remember to post
link here as reply when it is done (if it is not here in a week, prod me on
irc because that means I forgot).

Future:

We should make the thing 2 days, so it is worth for people to go to Prague,
for one day I guess it is not that motivating.

We should start looking for talks sooner than couple of months in advance
so people can plan for it.

3) Overall state/possibilities:

First here are photos:
http://www.root.cz/galerie/linuxdays-2014-sobota/
http://www.root.cz/galerie/linuxdays-2014-nedele/

Linuxdays people are more than happy to provide us with the room if we have
the content.

Most of the people attending to the conference speak english, so even tho
quite parts of the tracks are czech, we can talk with the people around.

We could do it yearly/bi-yearly, my take would be to create 2 days miniconf
each two year, so next one could be done 2016 unless of course you want it
next year again and tell me right now :)

Cheers

Tom

PS: I am sending this to core ml too as some devs are not on project ML and
I want all devs to see this

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