When? Where?

• 16 september 2007
  • Gent ICC, Citadelpark

Participants

• Dieter
• Pieter
• Stijn (Cancelled)
• Mark
• Peter

Fees

• 38 € in fees paid by visitors.

Pracitical

• 9.00: preparation. Be there. Part of this is a role play, training ourselves to meet visitors.
• 10.00: start. The first three hours are the busiest. Try to be there in the morning if you can only afford to spend half a day!
• 17.00: fair closed
• 18.00: booth cleaned up

Stuff needed

paper, attachments, various

• Posters (Dieter still has two A1 posters)
• Flyers (Mark will bring flyers)
• Pen's (with cords, to attach to the tables)
• Tablecloth (length about 6 meter?) (Pieter)
• Power extension cords + power strips. (Dieter can bring some)
• Candy
• Contribution urn (Dieter kan bring one)
• Duct tape
• ...

electronics

• cd's to burn feisty on or already with feisty on them (100) + paper bags for them?
  • Dieter can bring a external combo-writer (works plug and play with Ubuntu)
• computers/laptops
  • Dieter has 2 17" CRT screens in Ghent, but would need someone to pick them up)
  • Mark will bring 3 desktop computers with CRT screens.
• ...

What else?

• Digital camera! (Dieter)

Report

Sunday was the national 'train-tram-bus'-day in Belgium. So our volunteers should not have had any problems reaching the fair in Ghent. However due to train problems Dieter was confronted with a delay of one hour. What seemed like a bad start turned out to be a great day. Mark and Pieter had already started setting up the place, when Dieter and Peter arrived. We had lots of material (thanks to Mark), so we were well prepared for the masses. Peter took care of the first donation, thank you very much for that Peter!

At 10 o clock the doors opened and people started visiting the fair. Pieter distributed flyers at the entrance. A little while later lots of people came to aks information at our stand. We tried to convince as much people we could. Therefor we distributed lots of cd's.

We also met lots of other linux-enthousiasts. Some of them were even prepared to help out a hand in the futur.

Overall I had a great time, and would like to thank all of the volunteers for helping out.

Pictures

Mark at the far end of the table (not singing any Eddy Wally songs this time). Peter at the beginning of the table.

Mark at the left, Peter at the right.