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<h1>Report on LDP at Montreal</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Report on LDP at Montreal</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: David Lawyer <<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 06:14:24 -0700</li>
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The LDP was present in force at the Linux Expo in Montreal, Canada
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(April 10-12, 2000). Six LDPers attended and manned out exhibit booth
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there:
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3 from France: Guylhem Aznar, Aranud Claden, and Xavier Salanie
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2 from the USA: Gregory Leblanc and David Lawyer
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1 from Canada: Gary Lawrence Murphy
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Since most people in Montreal speak French, it was nice to have French
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speakers at our booth. Although our booth was off to the side and
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not in the main traffic stream, it was still fairly well attended and
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we gave out over 350 half-sheet brochures telling about the LDP. We
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also displayed printed examples of HOWTOs but unfortunately visitors
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sometimes thought they were handout sheets and took the first page.
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Was it worthwhile? If one compares the time and money spent to attend
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against the benefit to the LDP, then it wasn't worthwhile, especially
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in view of the fact that we had six people there. But since we had so
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many people there and only one or two was needed to man the booth,
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there was time to visit the other exhibits and attend talks. Thus it
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may have been worthwhile if one considers the benefit to the
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individuals of attending. There was press coverage of the Expo and I
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don't know if we were included.
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There were also talks given by us, but attendance was poor (only
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several people outside of the LDP) since it was not in the printed
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schedule. MandrakeSoft paid for the airline tickets (and hotel bills
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?) of all LDP attendees except for Gary Murphy from Canada.
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Should we go to future expos? I think so provided we do it better
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next time. We needed some large banners to put up at our booth even
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though the expo had put our name in bold letters above our booth (and
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we put up some sheets with the Linux penguin on it). Also it would
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have been nice to have had some terminals displaying our documentation
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so that people could sample it. However, we would not want people to
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spend a lot of time reading the documents there as they could do this
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elsewhere (at their home or office).
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We did get at least one comment regarding documents being
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out-of-date.
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-- David Lawyer
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<li><strong><a name="01966" href="msg01966.html">Re: Report on LDP at Montreal</a></strong>
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