Bugzilla @ MySQL Conference - booth report

[Myk Melez]

Hey all,

I'm back from the Bugzilla booth at the MySQL conference and thought I'd 
give a brief summary of my experience.

Max and I staffed the booth and were there from 10-11am to 4-5pm both 
days of the exhibition (Tuesday and Wednesday), but neither of us was 
there for the evening reception on Tuesday.

Traffic was fairly slow.  I think I talked to perhaps two dozen people, 
and they were evenly spread throughout the days (i.e. there didn't seem 
to be rushes).

The interactions can be grouped into roughly three categories:

   1. Bugzilla is great.  We use it at my organization.  Thank you very
      much, and keep up the good work. (~6 folks)

   2. My organization needs a bug tracking system, and I've heard about
      Bugzilla.  Tell me more about it. (~12 folks)

   3. We use Trac or something else instead of Bugzilla because Bugzilla
      is not written in PHP, its user interface sucks, or I couldn't get
      it installed. (~6 folks)

In addition to these interactions, we sold five t-shirts at $15 apiece 
(which is roughly at-cost).

Overall the experience was pleasant enough, and it was good to hear kind 
words (and get handshakes) from people who've really benefited from 
Bugzilla.

I'm not sure it was worth the time spent, however.  I suspect that the 
time I spent manning the booth would have been better spent doing 
reviews or the like.

-myk

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