xorg-europe Re: [Members] X.Org project booth on LinuxTag (Germany) 2007

I am willing to take responsibility for the booth once again, as I have at 
LinuxTag previously. 

My expenses would have to be covered.

Leon


Shiman Associates Inc
163 Tappan Street
Brookline MA 02445 USA

tel: (00)1.617.277.0087

Hi Leon,

Thank you very much for your offer! I've taken it to the 
X.Org Board.

As the Board is shifting the focus of our funding towards
education and away from marketing it has decided to only
cover smaller expenses like for show material and some 
local logistics.
The Board has therefore decided to not fund travel
(especially international) to attend a trade show.

Regards,
	Egbert.Leon Shiman writes:
> I am willing to take responsibility for the booth once again, as I have at 
> LinuxTag previously. 
> 
> My expenses would have to be covered.
> 
> Leon
> 
> 
> Shiman Associates Inc
> 163 Tappan Street
> Brookline MA 02445 USA
> 
> tel: (00)1.617.277.0087
>

The cynic in me thinks the Board may want to spend some of that educational
budget on itself ... to learn the value of marketing ... ;)

But serious, Leon is making a generous offer to spend a week of his time,
and enduring the hassles of cross-Atlantic travel, working on behalf of the
group at an event where X.Org should be represented, especially since it has
moved to Berlin. So you get a big influx of first-time visitors, many eager
to be "educated" about X.Org. In the past Leo has done Linuxtag at a
next-to-nothing expense.

It's a no-brainer to me.

Paul

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From: Paul Swart 
Egbert Eich
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [Members] X.Org project booth on LinuxTag (Germany) 2007



Hi Leon,

Thank you very much for your offer! I've taken it to the
X.Org Board.

As the Board is shifting the focus of our funding towards
education and away from marketing it has decided to only
cover smaller expenses like for show material and some
local logistics.
The Board has therefore decided to not fund travel
(especially international) to attend a trade show.

Regards,
	Egbert.Leon Shiman writes:
> I am willing to take responsibility for the booth once again, as I haveLeon Shiman writes:
> I am willing to take responsibility for the booth once again, as I have
at
> LinuxTag previously.
>
> My expenses would have to be covered.
>
> Leon
>
>
> Shiman Associates Inc
> 163 Tappan Street
> Brookline MA 02445 USA
>
> tel: (00)1.617.277.0087
>

On 4/17/07, Paul Swart  wrote:
> The cynic in me thinks the Board may want to spend some of that educational
> budget on itself ... to learn the value of marketing ... ;)
>
> But serious, Leon is making a generous offer to spend a week of his time,
> and enduring the hassles of cross-Atlantic travel, working on behalf of the
> group at an event where X.Org should be represented, especially since it has
> moved to Berlin. So you get a big influx of first-time visitors, many eager
> to be "educated" about X.Org. In the past Leo has done Linuxtag at a
> next-to-nothing expense.
>
> It's a no-brainer to me.I do question what X.org has to market for... we are only lacking one
thing, developer resources from what i can see, we are the default
upstream for nearly everyone distributing X, even Apple are starting
to use X.org... maybe there is some needs for sponsors to see their
name on the X.org stand at events well in that case that should be
stated when the sponsors give money to the board so they know that
this is a requirement..

But really the X.org foundations number one priority should be to
foster a development community... if LinuxTag is the place to pick
developers up in Europe then by all means we need to have someone at
LinuxTag, but if LinuxTag is just a place to say hey look at us and
demo MAS (something X.org doesn't even ship) then I question the
usefulness..

Dave.

Dave.