VanLUG Email Archive
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, R Garth Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
> > > Babes and quake2? :)
> >
> > One humble suggestion:
> >
> > *** NO GAMES ***
> >
> > Comdex is sold to both exhibitors and attendess as a purely
> > business-oriented show -- they don't even allow in anyone under 21. They
> > don't invite students or hobbyists, deliberately. Comdex audience is
> > mostly corporate IT managers, analysts, consultants and resellers. The
> > staff *must* be people capable of dealing with that audience.
>
> The creative labs booths were packed at comdex toronto. Strictly
> speaking no IT mamger should be interested in that. Also the matrox
> booth was pretty crowded. I think either ppl were sucked in
> by the flashing lights or they were gaming ppl. I think games
> as well as multi-media would certainly not detract from the booth.
>
> > > Perhaps CLUE would be willing to pay models in bikinis to go around and
> > > go "Linux?" to the various other booths? :)
> >
> > Believe it or not, Comdex does offer us a price-list for models/hosts,
> > some of which may even come in bathing suits.
>
I think this is a bring our own babes event (BOOB).
Seriously, we want to get peoples attention and be taken seriously at the
same time.
Most people need to see a useable desktop. Perhaps with apps that can
read and write Excel and Word stuff. And Netscape.
Of course we want to say this can be used for serious server stuff. And
maybe we should demo webserver/gateway/fileserver/appserver kinds of
things, but most users, especially resellers, will want to know Netscape
and Office type things can be done.
It would be nice to have a great multimedia demo, but I tend to agree that
games could be a distraction. Maybe a webcam ...
It would be nice to have a big pipe to the net. Can you call forward an
ADSL line?
Radio stuff is cool, but we should back ourselves up with a land line.
Once event starts, it'll be very difficult to do anything technical.
It would be nice to outdo the big boys in some way. How could we become
"the" place for folks to visit? Create personal web pages on the spot?
How about a web phone, video phone link to Tokyo, or other places.
Give people a picture of themselves on disc. Someone else might give away
or sponsor discs. Include a little promo or a custom background.
Maybe we can find out what Microsoft is going to try to demonstrate and do
one better.
We could have the coolest T-shirts, Hats, mouse pads and sell them.
Sell our own cds cheap.
Simon