Karnage on Nostr: Why do people think booths at conferences are a good way to “grow nostr”? I ...

Why do people think booths at conferences are a good way to “grow nostr”? I don’t think they are.

It takes a certain type of person to show up to a conference, and it won’t be the kind that will stroll by the booth and decide.. you know.. out of ALL this stuff that’s here to be marketed to me, I’m going to go ahead and check this one out and stick around long term. Besides, the number of people exposed to the protocol that way is insignifcant.

Is the goal simply to attrack other builders and people who have the means of pulling in audiences? Is that it?

I look at the costs of these things, the effort required (marketing materials etc…) to put on one of these booths and it just doesn’t seem like it makes any economical sense. To send a person to another country alone is not an insignifcant amount of money which could be spent much more efficiently on guierilla marketing campaigns. City to city within the same country.. eh, maybe makes more sense, but still, how many people are you really reaching? Conferences seem tailored towards relaitonship building and sales where just getting to know one individual is extremely beneficial.

I understand conferences for the sake of getting like-minded builders together to explore new things, but for promotion of USE of protocol makes no sense.