It's not just Open Source conferences [LWN.net]

It's not just Open Source conferences

Posted Dec 2, 2010 7:57 UTC (Thu) by dambacher (subscriber, #1710)
In reply to: It's not just Open Source conferences by stewart
Parent article: The dark side of open source conferences

> Perhaps if people running a booth want attendees to be interested in their
> technology they should have people on the booth who know about their
> technology.

I was at a machine tool fair a month ago. A machine manufacturer had a beautiful girl showing the machine functions to interested people. She definitely had the tech knowledge.
But they put her in a bavarian dirndl wich in a marketing sense accentuated the wrong things.

So yes we definitly need such a policy on conferences.

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