LinuxWorld UK - Day 1

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Written by Ric Shreves

Oct 25, 2006 at 07:25 PM

LinuxWorld UK: Day 1

Members of Team Mambo rolled into London this week to appear that the LinuxWorld UK show. Nalisa and Neil from Core Dev are here and so am I (Ric). The show is being held at Olympia 2 off Hammersmith. It's a fair-sized show with booths manned by all the big names -- RedHat, Debian, Novell and many others. The Open Source Content Management crowd is also putting in a good showing with booths from Drupal, Joomla and of course, Mambo.

Neil & Nalisa start setup

We all met this morning at Olympia 2 to set up the booth and get ready for the show to start. Doors opened for the public at 9:30, so we were all in place bright and early -- rather too bright and early for my tastes... The wet vaguely cold London weather was no help. Nalisa & I walked about 30 mintues to get to the venue -- in drizzling rain. Not a good way to start your day. It took lubrication with liberal amounts of coffee to get the gears moving properly again.

getting closer...

Setup went without a hitch. The only problem we had was in delivery of some polo shirts we had custom made for the Team. Customs seemed to take a bit of an issue with us importing them into the country from Asia. The problem was finally conquered around 2:00 in the afternoon.

Our booth position is good -- we're right next to the conferences so everyone in and out of the conferences parades past us. It's a bit of a captive audience and paying off well. Our signage is strong and we got a lot of traffic today from developers. Some good feedback today on several usability issues and some very positive comments from people who had not seen the system in a while.

one-on-one

Time was spent not just talking to people about Mambo but in hands-on demos. It's really powerful to sit down with people, ask them what they want a CMS to do, then step them through Mambo. Proof in action. The approach gets a great response and you are able to engage the people one-on-one.

Neil's experience with Mambo in the public sector went a long ways today. Seemed like many of our visitors were in government and education. Neil's discussion of managing hundreds of admin users and thousands of links within Mambo got their attention.

the Team in action

Another interesting note today: We ran into several Plone users and talked to a number of people who had questions about Drupal. Seems interest in the open source CMS market is growing at a very strong rate. It's nice to be involved with something that is clearly of interest to the users.

We'll be back with another update tomorrow...

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