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Tue, 29 Jan 2008
Want people to stop at your Debian booth?
...install a Babelbox, de-activate the "db_info babelbox/info" line in preseed_early and put the following in big capitals on a sheet of paper attached to the monitor:
BABELBOX CONTEST Guess what language is used to install that Debian system....and wait for the crowd to slowly gather around the box and start guessing. If you can offer stickers|pins|CDs to winners, that's even better.
Hint: do not activate easy to guess languages. Good candidates (apart from all non Latin ones which are all *very* hard to recognize for the regular French geek, except maybe Japanese) are Hungarian, Basque, Slovenian. Arabic is too easy to recognize and so is Greek. Indic languages are a great success but Dzongkha is generally the winner.
Hint 2: do not sort languages alphabetically by locales. Geeks are too smart and the geeks manning the booth will learn too quickly. Watch also people trying to switch to a console during the D-I runs and typing "cat /proc/cmdline".
Hint 3: train yourself to recognize the languages before the contest so that you look clever...
That worked pretty well during 1st day of Solutions Linux.
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