I doubt I can attend, and I'm not familiar with LinuxWorld (i.e. who attends and what they'd be interested in from Inkscape, or how Inkscape can benefit from people who attend), but here are a few ideas of things of what to draw attention to or not:
One thing we might be able to offer the business
- SVG for small devices (mobile phones, PDAs). We currently don't have particularly good support for SVG Tiny, but maybe some business at LinuxWorld might want to sponsor improvement in this area as the cheapest path to getting an editor for SVG Tiny.
- Shared whiteboard collaboration.
- Creation of business documents that are more googlable (or accessible from whatever desktop search technology) than many alternatives.
Perhaps the important point here (from a money-making perspective) is that SVG might be googlable (not sure), whereas I believe flash is not googlable. (This belief based partly on flash's secretive nature, and partly on one flash-only web-site that I couldn't find matches for in google; though I'm not certain that the site was in google at all.) It doesn't matter whether SVG has reached Flash's market penetration yet or not: SVG can be just one alternative in a cascade.
- Conceivably just as general illustration program or flowcharting / diagramming tool. But what's the benefit of inkscape over OOo Draw or Visio etc. ? SVG support is the main thing that stands out from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/OpenDraw. (Plus the graph layout stuff, though I'd guess that Dia or Visio are still better than Inkscape for most graph drawing; though I think both can export to SVG.)
Any other ideas of what should or shouldn't get prominent display in the booth?
pjrm.