Solutions Linux 2010 - 16-18th March, Paris Porte de Versailles

[Guillaume Lasmayous <guigui2%guigui2.net@localhost>]

Hello,

For the 11th year, was held the "Solutions Linux and Opensource" event in Paris
Porte de Versailles, from March 16th to 18th.
NetBSD(fr) has been holding a booth for the 2nd year in the "Associations'
village", where visitors could find most of the active Free and Open Source
Software associations: April,
{Ubuntu,Mandriva,Fedora,PutYourFavoriteDistroHere}-fr, as well as FreeBSD-fr
and BSDFrance. 

4 NetBSD developers were on the event: imil, tonio, jym and
myself, gls. Several other active members of the community were also present
to run the booth: chets, zatmania, orgrim.

We distributed something like 150 live CDs, 250 stickers (I had them printed
on my own funds in a french printing shop, using the official logo), and 25
case badges sold 2 Euros each (NetBSDfr will donate the collected amount of
money to the NetBSD project).

Lessons learnt from those two years of presence:
- goodies are a must, people began to stop at the booth when I put the
stickers on the table :-)
- have a handful of liveCDs available to give away. We had only one
installation request, so installation ISOs are not mandatory.
- Always the same questions. Have your NetBSD/Linux comparison chart ready :)
However, compared to last year, we had many more "technical" questions, mainly
around embedding NetBSD - thanks to jym@ on these ones.
- I had no time to have T-Shirts printed this year, but I think it would be
good for next year. I know Marc contacted Wim Vandeputte on the subject, I'll
contact him to work on the subject.

Next events where NetBSDfr will be present:
- Rencontre Bretonnes du Logiciel Libre in Rennes, May
- Journées Méditéranéennes du Logiciel Libre in Nice/Sophia-Antipolis,
November.

Have a good day,
Guillaume, for NetBSDfr.org