This is an excellent point, Christoph, and thanks for bringing this up.

I think if any hacking is to be done, it's during the Fedora Activity Day at a particular event (which, arguably, is what the FAD is for).

The booth is the face of Fedora at events and we all want to put our best face forward.

Larry Cafiero

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@googlemail.com> wrote:
... please don't hack!

For certain reasons (FOSDEM in this case) I'd like to remind you all of
some rules you should follow when you are attending an event.

    1. When you are at an event and you are doing service at the Fedora
       booth, please don't just sit behind the table staring at your
       laptop and chatting with each other. Instead, try to spend your
       time on the visitors.
    2. Instead of sitting behind the desk, stand before it. If you are
       standing you can better talk to people cause you don't have look
       up all the time and if you are in front of the booth, it's
       easier to get in touch with people.

I was surprised to see that some people did builds and updates this
afternoon while they were at FOSDEM. Even worse: At least some of them
already heard about the complainants of some visitors that the Fedora
people were just sitting and hacking all the time.

I have not been at the event so I cannot tell if these complainants were
justified or not, but I think FOSDEM is definitely not the place to do
package maintainance. It's is for meeting people! It's only two days
each year, so when you are there, please do yourself a favor and ether
spend the time on people or attend some of the excellent talks.

Regards,
Christoph

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