Some of my learned lessons of my voluntary #growNostr job at the Nostr booth at nostr:npub13e6qu4kdjsyysrfl5an558rawvqg0rx2xuat9ca706spcdqjzhuqq6md43.

- Don't count too much on the organisation taking care of nice place with a booth. After the BTC Prague conference their idea was to setup a similar booth. As the Amsterdam conference was getting closer, this setup was already downgraded in certains ways. At the end we just had to deal with a table in the corner of the expo hall besides other companies. This doesn't make sense. There is a community area as well at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference and to me it's still a big question mark why a grassroots project isn't placed there. So for next year it would be a very nice to have to bring our own booth to the conference. 

- So many people who don't know Nostr assume you're a company (because we were standing in the area with all the other companies).

- Some people assumed Nostr is an NFT.

- Some people assumed Nostr uses some blockchain technology.

- The concept of there is no single point of truth or a consensus mechanism is sometimes quite hard to understand for some. 

- Search often doesn't work in clients we used to explain / onboard people. I guess many clients are running a background process indexing content. That content is not avaible immediately when you just downloaded a client. 

- Using a NFC card with your npub is really use to share it with someone else and start following (thx nostr:npub1fldgkyxjm92mr7zlrejmhd3ymlzx2awhpxpwserzl5v2w7a7a93q0n7wu7 and nostr:npub1t6jxfqz9hv0lygn9thwndekuahwyxkgvycyscjrtauuw73gd5k7sqvksrw showing this). There is a huge market opportunity here selling Nostr NFC powered merchandise. 

- At average it takes around 10-20 minutes to talk with just someone explaining all different Nostr stuff.

- Many people already understand why we need Nostr and their questions were in general about how to do certain stuff as they already have a Nostr keypair.

- Explaining my own story why I use Nostr seems to resonate. In this story / pitch I explain why Nostr is healthy and serving my digital wellbeing in a positive way.

- Helping at the booth is one of the best ways to meet new people.

- The livestream just worked, the wifi connection was really good! Thumbs up for that to the organisation!

- When explaining Nostr, you often just see the click in someones mind when they just see how different the protocol works compared to other (legacy) platforms we're using.

- People like stickers, almost our whole stack is gone now.

- People really like nostr:npub1gwa27rpgum8mr9d30msg8cv7kwj2lhav2nvmdwh3wqnsa5vnudxqlta2sz his art and style.

- We need informational flyers which people can take with them to home.

- We need rollup banners. Especially when you just have a table availble you can use as a 'booth'.

- We need more (free) Nostr merchandise.

- When people see a free power outlet, they will ask you if they can use it to charge their phone.

- I need to take notes of people's names who I helped onboarding so I can tag them later on. Tagging me was often a challenge for them (it's the same issue with search) when they took the effort to write an #introduction note.

- Nostr needs to attent to a non-Bitcoin event / conference to gather feedback from other type of audiences.

I'm curious what you all have learned from this expierence nostr:npub14qpe36rvq0l6m3crplsntmnkzjm04weqflq0veqc8ra5hz4lpvxqqkdffc nostr:npub14wxtsrj7g2jugh70pfkzjln43vgn4p7655pgky9j9w9d75u465pqvagcye nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa nostr:npub1hw6amg8p24ne08c9gdq8hhpqx0t0pwanpae9z25crn7m9uy7yarse465gr nostr:npub17plqkxhsv66g8quxxc9p5t9mxazzn20m426exqnl8lxnh5a4cdns7jezx0 nostr:npub1equrmqway3qxw3dkssymusxkwgwrqypfgeqx0lx9pgjam7gnj4ysaqhkj6 nostr:npub1t6jxfqz9hv0lygn9thwndekuahwyxkgvycyscjrtauuw73gd5k7sqvksrw