Projects/Promo/Booth and Marketing Sprint 2009

This page is about the Booth Sprint 2009 and the Marketing Sprint 2009. We are aiming at a joint sprint location and date.

Location

Stuttgart, Germany

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Date

November 13 to November 15 We will expect arrivals from Thursday 12th on and departures on Monday 16th. Of course this depends on convenience for each participant... (using http://doodle.com/w92mtg9z6zqngx7d)

Booth Sprint

Agenda

In general, everything related to booths (and promo). Feel free to suggest things you'd like to do as well.

• flyers: there have been some cool "get involved" flyers on the promo list lately, however, what's missing is the kind of flyer that informs about KDE, about pim, about edu, etc.

• posters and other booth artwork: how should KDE booths look like?

• booth box: what do we have, what do we need, does the booth box fulfill its purpose, what else can be improved, ...

• KDE showcase: an installation medium which is dedicated to showcase KDE (this already started at openSUSE conference)

• documentation: make life easier by providing to-do lists and/or guidelines for booth setup, booth management, questions you have to answer, ...

Marketing sprint

Agenda

• Write text for a promotional folder for FOSS.in (this is how the idea started, we need this for Praedeepto in India but these folders can/will come to Europe as well).

• final content for spread.kde.org based on the above.

• first content for release announcement and feature guide for 4.4 and creating a plan for the next few months to finish it properly.

• move on rebranding:

- kde.org/whatiskde text rewritten

- about dialog for KDE (which still mentions K Desktop Environment) rewritten

- dot story about rebranding.

There are also several other things, like preparing for the marketing around next Akademy, articles for the dot etc we need to discuss.

The morning of the first day will be used for creating a realistic plan of what we want to accomplish.

Accommodation

Accommodation will be taken care off, the below is only for planning purposes.

There is a service for bed&breakfasts and appartments in and around Stuttgart at http://www.night-and-day.de/nightandday/en/OurRegions/Stuttgart/ The largest appartments they offer accomodate 8 people - though it seems the larger, the further outside of Stuttgart (but with decent public transportation).

Travel

As soon as we know the costs for each person, we will apply for reimbursement from the e.V. Each of the participants books their flight/tickets etc and sends a reimbursement form to the e.V. (kde.org/ev)

It is usually cheaper, when flying trans-Atlantic to fly to London or Paris first and then use Ryanair or another low cost carrier to get to the final destination. The English language wikipedia page suggests that there is a direct flight Atlanta to Stuttgart via Delta Airlines if anyone is looking that route.

There is an international airport in Stuttgart. However, it doesn't look like they have direct transatlantic flights. Luckily, there is a direct train connection going from right underneath the Frankfurt airport terminal to Stuttgart main station, which is most likely the easier and cheaper route.

Interested in participating

Please add your name, whether you need accomodation and what your approximate travel costs are.

Name	Acc. needed	Arrival	Departure	Travel costs
Eckhart Wörner	no			EUR 0
Frank Karlitschek	no			EUR 0
Frederik Gladhorn	no	always there, except Saturday		EUR 0
Lydia Pintscher	yes	Thursday evening probably	Monday Morning probably	~40 Euro
Mark Kretschmann	yes
Myriam Schweingruber	yes
Valerie Hoh	no
Jörg Hoh	no
Jos Poortvliet	Yes			EUR 80
Stuart Jarvis	Yes	Thurs evening	Monday afternoon	~EUR130
Justin Kirby	Yes	Leave Thurs evening, red eye to arrive Fri morning	Monday morning	~$650 USD