Ted Gould wrote:
- Linux.com stopped by. Their overview was pretty flattering, and now
is on the Inkscape site. He asked if I'd do an interview, and I didn't realize it was going to be video. You can now watch me stumble over my words trying to say something insightful.
- I did an interview with the booth next to us (everyone else was
scared). They hired a 'booth babe' to make a video asking stupid questions of conference attendees. It was cute. But I have to harass John Tabor for giving me misinformation about the whole thing :)
just saw the linux.com article on lwn.net with Ted out in front -
just a couple more points: 1) On Sat. our booth was often packed - it looked like we easily outdrew the commercial booths on both sides of us, even with our ancient computers, non-working white board screen, no handouts (Josh forgot them at home) and our hand drawn url extended booth sign. It must have been the awesome car screenshot that caught lots of attention or Ted's Inkscape T-Shirt. 2) to reiterate Ted's comment - the expo definitely had a more business attendee flavor this year, especially small-mid business owners that seemed to become interested in using Inkscape in their business. 3) Ted's presentation on extensions was excellent - if like me, you haven't played with extensions much, it's a must read. 4) Ted was too kind to mention our first day - we couldn't get the LCD projector going in the booth on any of the computers, I figured my old projector was broken but on day 2 Jon Cruz brought in a mac with hopes of better detection - that's when he found out the projector had auto-image turned off. Turned it on and we had a great screen display. Duh! 5) In my estimation the booth with the most attention was Asterisk - even late Sunday they were going strong with a big crowd. And all the commercial vendors I talked with said they had a good show. 6) David Uhlman's talk on top Linux Desktop Applications is always the most popular talk and this year he cited Inkscape as the best graphics package. 7) The Linux Gazette editor that Ted mentioned, said he just took over and wants to have a more graphical version of the on-line magazine and wants to do a feature story on Inkscape - I think Josh is following up on that so anyone wanting to contribute, let Josh know. 8) We do have booth pictures - maybe they'll get posted on planet Inkscape.
It was great fun - sadly, I'm now back to freezing temperatures (: