I received the confirmation that we can get a booth at the FrOSCon on 16.+17. Aug 2025 in Sankt Augustin (Cologne/Bonn area in Germany). It will be a joint booth for CentOS & Fedora.
The registration at the cfp is already done. I applied as usual for 2x 1.2*0.8m tables with 4 chairs, but the tables/chairs have not yet been confirmed.
As the last year, I plan to have a hike to Drachenfels castle on a Friday evening before the event. If anyone wants to join, let me know. The idea is to come to Bonn on Friday, check-in to a hotel somewhere near the main train station, than use a tram to Konigswinter, hike to the castle (30-60 minutes), enjoy the sunset, and go back.
There is a tram line which connects the conference venue, the main train station in Bonn and the Konigswinter, where the castle is, so logistically it is very easy.
May I ask why one project booth for both projects? Guess due to limited space.
TBH CentOS is a nogo for me as a booth personel. Nearly no knowledge about CentOS on my side to let me answer any possible questions from visitors. But I like the idea of at least some swag from more different projects.
At this time I doubt that any PC is available because of logistics issue from my side. In Sankt Augustin we used a Raspberry Pi as the preferred working solution but it fails with heavy graphics required for visual effects within KDE, Gnome or similiarly desktops. Someone (@py0xc3 ?) should bring a TFT anyways to get shown anything practically.
A good idea would be to show Xfce 4.20 as feature included in Fedora 42.
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I’ll be there again this year at the Deutsche Welle booth!
I’ll be happy to demo Fedora 42 with GNOME on my DW laptop to anyone interested. Looking forward to seeing many of you at FrOSCon!
@raphgro the problem about merging Fedora/CentOS is mostly about limited personnel and being efficient/pragmatic, but given that we made a last minute reservation, it is also unclear if we had get two booths anyway. However, you do not need to worry about CentOS: my knowledge in this respect is also limited. @bookwar already confirmed that she can cover CentOS, and others can focus on Fedora. So it is NOT a requirement for people at the booth to know about both Fedora and CentOS, it is fine to know only about one of the two. If it remains one person that can tackle CentOS questions, then so be it - if people have a CentOS question while Aleksandra makes a break, they shall return later - it’s not that they paid for consulting or so Given the scope of the event, I expect the majority is interested mostly in Fedora anyway.
As far as it concerns bringing stuff to FrOSCon: I cannot bring much as I travel this time by public transport (I no longer live near the area, and in Zurich a car is superfluously ). But we already talked at Flock and @jbley is likely to attend with the possibility to transport swag. If a pc/laptop + screen would be available somehow that would be great of course, but it is not a requirement for providing a booth
Well, I would focus a little more on our mainstream and distinguishing things/variants (gnome,kdespin,silverblue,kinoite), although it might be useful to have the possibility to boot everything if people want to check out some specific variant. I mean dd some images to some USB drives for each variant to just plug in and boot whatever someone wants to test might be easy (if laptop or so will be available)
Let’s see what comes up and what we get organized until then. Still much time left. But in any case, we will survive it even if we have no dedicated laptop/pc+screen or so
Does it make sense to offer Geeko that we distribute some of their swag or so? Afaik, they have nothing dedicated themselves.
I am not sure if openSuSE covers that already ( @skriesch I assume you know already if you have Geeko swag at your booth at FrOSCon or so?)
In the past, we (Fedora UK SIG & Geeko) considered some collaborations around the UK SIG/London meetup and remain in contact, and our communities are strongly intertwined anyway I would like to keep and strengthen ties a little. Just a thought
openSUSE has got an own booth as every year. Mostly openSUSE and Fedora are closed together. How much marketing material will be delivered depends on “how much money is available 1 month before”. ^^
Last FrOScon, we had a booth, but less marketing material. I hope that there will be more again this year. However, it seems that we are not alone with this problem.
I can ask in our Ambassador/Advocate team what the others say about the idea of distributing marketing material between Linux distributions.
I am pleased that we (openSUSE/Geeko Foundation) can once again be a Sponsor of FrOSCon. That is a signal that we have got enough sponsorships at the moment. The FrOSCon Orga team reached out to me last year regarding this problem. I must say that sponsorships are now related to the budget at the Geeko Foundation. ^^
That’s why I expected that they might already taken care of Geeko However, Geeko and openSuSE ain’t the same thing, although of course related/intertwined.
I was only asking if we offer to share their swag, to help them promote their goals, which are interrelated/complementary to ours. We already collaborated, and Geeko wants to get broader and is not limited to openSuSE, so if they had no dedicated presence at FrOSCon, we might have helped. We have our booth, funding is not necessary, and afaik it is taken care of Fedora and CentOS swag.
I assume there is a confusion. I was only referring to Geeko, not openSuSE, as their goal afaik is to get broader beyond sponsoring/funding/promoting openSuSE only. Of course you have your own booth like us, so mixing openSuSE & Fedora swag at both booths might end up confusing for attendees, we might want to avoid that… although the idea of mixing the booths reminds me on the big green openSuSE chameleon with the Fedora scarf at FrOSCon 2022
We don’t need sponsorships, but I assume your post means the openSuSE booth already distributes Geeko swag and promotes them/their goals, so I assume we can close the “Geeko” discussion thread of the topic Thanks for the information
Well, I am thinking honestly about financial sponsorship or getting generally into some commercial partnering. Currently that is in an early phase of ideas and planning with budgeting etc.
About swag maybe redbbuble, hellotux (both dedicated online shops) or local merch shop at Event could help? Let’s ask possibly at the next event, usually they provide official stickers and shirts branded.
I think there is a discussion to decentralize swag stuff, so that teams like us can do that locally and tailored to the area / event, I would be +1 for that possibility but that is not an issue we can solve in the FrOSCon preparations. However, funding and budgeting are means, not goals. Before thinking about that, the question is what we need that costs money. The swag I received from RH when I brought it in (I think) 2022 was more than enough - it sufficed even two FrOSCons. The only issue was that the workstation guides were obsoleted and some stuff with old logo. But I could imagine that issue has been solved (I at least hope so).
The next question then would be what is the return on investment when investing further resources (time+money) to get additional stuff/swag, and later who can store what remains after FrOSCon. In the end, it is not a Fedora-dedicated event, and traditionally, people will therefore on the second day run around with FrOSCon shirts
I don’t know what @bookwar and @jbley have intended about swag, and what is maybe already available. As discussed, we still have time.
Well, I’d strongly recommend to contact someone with logistics experience. @robert for instance could give some useful hints and he’s received a new rollup with new Fedora Logo we used in Chemnitz.
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