 So this is the spinner for our exhibit talk is also going to be a workshop so One of the handouts, please So how many people here have earned the food sitting badge Well, I mean sat in a booth Wow Yeah, and how many people have Have a favorite spin Okay, good So This is gonna be part of our workshop, so I'd like everybody to introduce themselves with their name and their exhibit they've Sad at and their favorite spin and I'll start I'm Jeff Sandys and I've done the Lennox fast Northwest for the last six years and my favorite spin is the door jam so And Williams I Use it make more than any of whichever way you want I'm using that personally If they want to explore This Dynamite Okay Awesome Okay, and I'm interested in kind of the specialized spins like scientific So great. I'm glad you're here and yep. Oh Good good Child and you'll see that coming up Okay So why do we do this? Why why do we? Get up early in the morning haul the dang door box to a table set up Stand there talk to people Listen to people all day long What why do you do? What do you get out of it? Hey, hey, maybe I've never heard of Lennox in the first place Up Good good So you got paid that's an excellent reason Okay, well, yeah Oh Well, you know for me, I enjoy sharing, you know, and I enjoy the experience that I am so What is the door? Oh, why do they actually pay? You know registration fees to have a sitting on a tail. What are they getting out of sitting there? Yeah, the more people we get use the door Yeah, let's be truthful. We have the research and development Branch for red hat. Yeah, more people we get using the door and come back as contributors helps red hat Yeah I Yeah You get human yeah Oh So and then again This is kind of going back to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and it really I'm trying to understand that so what is the guess why why do they go? Spend their day going to conference walking around all the news, but what are they getting out? Swag, yeah, that's a good one Yeah, you haven't any other ages Oh Yeah, yeah, they do I kind of think that When the guy goes to work on Monday, what what is he gonna talk about, you know, you know I went to the Lennox vests and I saw what are they gonna say they saw, you know Well, the thing that will come up first is the thing that gave them the most Memorable experience, okay So that's that's what I think is the common denominator of all these things that I like Exhibiting because it gives me a very pleasant and memorable experience Fidora wants people to have a memorable experience remember Fedora and the guests wants to come And have a good experience and remember something and we hope they remember something Okay, so the goal is really let's give the guests a memorable experience And if you I think it as a fedora booth trying to cover everything That you're not going to do that. I think is with a spin you can focus on the depth and Get and focus on an experience and You're gonna lose some people who aren't interested in what your spin is about But considering the large group of people that attend That there's going to be a large percentage that will have some interest in your spin via security scientific Music design whatever okay, so what I'm trying to do here with this workshop is Let's create some guides to help people Make an exhibit based on this okay, so This is the graphic that the design team made for us for our Linux Fest Northwest Brian Monroe Did a music spin did the for door jam spin at scale And it's hugely successful and I had intended to do music at Linux Fest, so Brian helped me out We got real nice graphic made for it and The things I want to focus on here is The entry-level applications so We want to give our guests entry-level applications something that if they use Windows or Mac or Just kind of generally interested in the subject. They would look at it and kind of understand it so for our exhibit we use Audacity it's really simple recording program. We have Mike person could sing into the mic We can play it back. We can add an effect It was very easy for a person to use and then but you also need to address the power users the expert users so we showed our door which is a full-future recording studio digital audio workstation you can actually mix sync it with movies and everything and also guitar X and Jack of course you need Jack when you're working with high-level music application and Showed off the tam-tam Mini and the 10-pound zip flap Awesome application. You should know that right your work is sure Those little green things Really bring people into the table, especially young people families So these are the people that we really want to engage to to help spread Linux we want hands-on activities you want to give some people some physical to do to touch something so We didn't have any contest we were thinking of having a Guitar riff contest or drum riff contest or karaoke type contest Karaoke is kind of hard because the copyright thing the door doesn't like getting involved with but Give some something hands-on for the people to do so that's going to create a more memorable experience and The specialized hardware if you're a geek and You're interested in that subject There's some special equipment that you're going to want to look at and have your hands on and ask questions about Having that on your table is going to draw people into to talk to you swag You got to be able to get stuff out and you want to give out something unique and memorable something that When they look at that later on they're going to say. Yeah, that was the door jam we I Try to get these printed and couldn't get a printed on time. So I hammer out for door jam on a gross of guitar picks and have those out You got to have a business card and Hand those out so people ask questions. I like putting on a USB stick Have it available and somebody's going to spend a half an hour talking to you. You want to give him some even like extra People a USB out And you can think of like value added things is there's something that you do That you could like put on that USB stick or share with the guests Brian had a whole bunch of patches for guitar X He sound just just like slash YouTube Echo and he's playing Ambient drone thing and he had all those patches and guitar X and he was sharing a guess that came through our booth I haven't yes, you you have I I like the paper ones is so easy easy to reach in your pocket You'll talk to this person Yeah, yeah Surprising about that Yeah, the other thing about focusing on a specific topic is it opens you up to give your exhibit at other places in Lenox vests I mean Going down Lenox vests. This is kind of like preaching to the choir. Isn't that what you'd like to do? Scientific exhibit you could go to the Pi Psi what is The Python scientific one and show for door there Sugar on a stick you could go to educational conference show for door there These are opportunities to expose fedora to people that are outside the The realm that we normally involved ourselves with this. This is a good thing Okay, so we want to take fedora jam to NAM That's the national music at National Association for music manufacturers music merchants and For door jammers in a way a merchant will Offering grabbing some political issues with red hat to try to do that That's why we're going to attend the next stock on what does red hat want? So to get to be a member of NAM you have to show that you've sold You you have to show three receipts to three different music companies now red hat probably Runs the servers for Fender or Gibson or Moe or but they're not going to release those invoices, right? So, okay Well, yeah, and so we're trying to work our way around that I think we think there might be some other ways But right now we tried to get to NAM this year, and we couldn't do it because we couldn't get a membership We're gonna try next Okay So Let's see we have someone who's interested in scientific and someone Interested in sugar on a stick, right? And you're interested in maybe mate or is there another one? Okay, so if you want to take that sheet and Let me know What what are the applications that? Your spin what would be an entry-level application for your spin? What would be an expert? application for your spin is there a one laptop per child application that's Kind of affiliated That would be representative. I have them all listed on the back What what sort of hands-on things could you do? With your spin could could or even a contest So we're now somebody from the graphics in the game spins here because we want to do games next year Is there any specialized hardware that your? Spin would use that would attract customers you write those down and is there any like unique swag that would Go with your spin And and is there any other conference or things that your spin would be happy so this is our Brian Moore put this together from the pictures he shot at Lennox pass while you guys are writing down you watch this Fanora also sponsored the game night, so that was very popular And that's why I want to do games next year. It's mostly Brian on the guitar Yeah, Pete's injured games Gail who serves beer checks My wife wants that cards for me Cards against me. Yes, so we were able to help out the Lennox pass because this is the game night is the day before the fast we Help register people get out of their badges. So Saturday morning, those people already had their back to walk right into the exhibit without Waiting in line and it gave us opportunity to give out t-shirts to People only caveat. We said you have to wear it tomorrow So we got a lot of door t-shirts walking around the conference I'm There I am 144 the topics if you ever have chance to come up to Bellingham in April Come up and enjoy this conference. We're it's Larson Northwest. I'm sure we have about 2020 It's because Bill the Is works at Bellingham technical college and he's one who sponsors it Yeah Well, yeah, I don't know how big scale I mean Yeah And not as much fun This Community exhibitors can get a six-foot table for free writing sign-up in time Fedora we sponsor so we we pay for a larger table Yeah, yeah, we had lots of guests really interested in trying out No, we if you ask to pick up the guitar we let you do it and we had a keyboard We had the little drum kit That's my wife on the violin You need to make eyes, so Life CD I think in the USB We Yes Yeah So under user share span You will see every one So if you want to do security, it's got to kickstart there so you can see what I could just So let's say more The other thing I really think about focusing on spins is that It would help drive down to application developers if we if you're giving an exhibit on your subject And there was an application developer Who had one of the applications that was on that spin they may Want to sit the door booth with you and talk about their application? And that's going to help build the bond between the door and application Which I think is one of the things we really need to work Okay, so Did anybody write down anything for your security span? Scientific spin Yeah Well, that's okay Something that graphs maybe graphing functions And so expert applications on the scientific spin But having it is a part of the spin and so it's something you can show I know it's in Dora Well, so it would be a thing when you're engaging a guest and and they say we I did we use our work So there is some on the all PC the analyze App will actually do a foyer analysis and show waveforms They're there's supposed to be one in every kid There's supposed to be three kids one's been seen in action Then so boy scientific Oh, yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, I know exactly what I'm talking about the marble out and then a specialized hardware for scientific Yeah Okay, and Any specialized swag that would appeal to the scientific community And then are there other conferences the outside of the next this way to appeal to Anti Even though it's free Well, yeah, it's still a commercialization And you have some input for sugar, yeah Okay, yeah, exactly Literally, yes, like, you know Run away, yeah I Before you walk out, what about Others Coming out Yeah Going to tablet Yeah, I have one of each I like the arm Not touch Oh Yeah Yeah Okay Yeah So it's a broad appeal, but, yeah, so there's a lot there to, so it's funny, I don't know if it's a spin technically, but it will be all, it will be all, it will make this appear, and it turns out it will be, it will be there, it will not be top. I hate to say it won't be primary, because people understand that your libraries and sugar will also be there, but it may be a little secondary. Sounds very interesting. And it will spray, you know, around your village, it will be a lot of supply. Yeah. All the drivers are ready, but, so what's taking me, the one-to-one model, I'm just saying, these are littered around the third world, literally. Yeah. There's toxic waste around the third world. And you could make them into something. Yeah, turn it into an actual library for that village. Yeah, that sounds pretty awesome. You have to answer all these questions, because most people, when they see this, they fixate on the eight-year-old idea, and it takes them a lot. Sometimes we have to explain it five times. Yeah. This can take people a long time to get that to an event. Oh, yeah, yeah. Cool. Sounds like a great idea, but no more about it. And then do you have any, did you want to talk about any incidents? Well, I'm thinking about making a spin. On what? Amateur radio. Yeah, there you go. No, we don't. We've got amateur radio practice, but we don't have an amateur radio spin. I have made a kickstart that builds, I just need to get going. I have my hang. Cool. Cool. Also, at VE, I'll be one of the ones, even the test on Saturday, to study. I'll ask you later on. Yeah, that's a great idea. And you have tons of places, tons of hands-on specialized equipment. Right. I can bring in, like, a lot of times you have the Lennox and the Hampshire guys show up, and they set up the station. A lot of the deputy for door locks to it would be this one. And that would be one way to do it. That would pair with that. Just show people, you know, how radio was the first social network. Yeah. And we also had the first text message. Yeah. So, this is a lot last slide. I'm just asking you, think about how do you create a memorable experience by using spin? I want to thank you all for your great input. I enjoyed this conversation very much. I hope you got as much out of it as I did. How long have you been doing this? I've been doing Fedora for five years. And I've also done CPIG, or Seattle Python users group. And I also staff the BSD booth for one year. Is it bearable for you to flip around? I just have so much fun. It's a vacation for me. I live in Seattle, so it's a 75 mile drive. Go up, set up, get to meet all these people. Yeah, there is that. I am an ambassador. Yeah, you get the cool band. You get the band and you get your mileage and your hotel work. You know, to me it's such a vacation. I feel like a volunteer. I've never charged Fedora for the rumor. You know, you can usually tell the people, like I was a big, big conference when I was sitting with them. I appreciate it, because I think you're really... Yeah. First of all, my name is Marketsus. I'm paid to be at the conference by...