[gentoo-dev] OSCON booth?
Donnie Berkholz
I've been talking to some X.Org folks about sharing an OSCON [1] booth
with us. OSCON is in Portland, OR, July 24-28, and the exhibit hall is
open Wednesday and Thursday (26-27). This would help alleviate any
short-staffing either group has, and likely attract more attention to
the booth by having more Xgl and other bling, as well as people who can
actually explain it.
Mike (vapier) mentioned that at LWE, the O'Reilly guys offered us a
booth. I presume this means free.
Anyone who has interest in staffing a booth at OSCON or in attending it,
please contact me. I will try to organize this. Exhibit hall attendance
is free, but the sessions get pretty expensive. I'm not sure whether we
would receive any session passes for being exhibitors.
Who actually goes to OSCON? The attendees are roughly 50% devs, 25%
sysadmins, and 25% suits/other. So it's a fun audience rather than being
dominated by management.
I would appreciate some help in understanding exactly what's required to
get a booth together as well, since I've never done this.
Thanks,
Donnie
1. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/
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Chris White
> Hi all,
>
> Mike (vapier) mentioned that at LWE, the O'Reilly guys offered us a
> booth. I presume this means free.
Yah, I've been trying to get information on that, I say call the booth
organizing people at O'Reilly and ask them. Someone should know.
> Anyone who has interest in staffing a booth at OSCON or in attending it,
> please contact me. I will try to organize this. Exhibit hall attendance
> is free, but the sessions get pretty expensive. I'm not sure whether we
> would receive any session passes for being exhibitors.
Me, I plan to be there the day before the convention straight to the day
after. However, I need to somehow get ahold of a loaned monitor because I
don't think the combined weight of what I plan to bring with me on the plane
+ a monitor will work. That said, how many systems I bring is dependant upon
how many monitors can be loaned to the booth for me to use. My plans were:
1) This alpha system I'm getting with GNOME on it
2) My pegasos box running a PHP5/MySQL5/Apache2 server
3) This cheap 600mhz laptop running Gentoo once I get it (maybe shove xfce on
there)
So if any other dev/OSUOSL is able to spare a monitor, feel free to let me
know ahead of time.
> Who actually goes to OSCON? The attendees are roughly 50% devs, 25%
> sysadmins, and 25% suits/other. So it's a fun audience rather than being
> dominated by management.
>
> I would appreciate some help in understanding exactly what's required to
> get a booth together as well, since I've never done this.
1) CD's
2) CD's
3) Did I mention CD's?
4) Where's everyone staying, can we share rooms and what not
5) Literature holders
6) Literature
7) Business card holders
8) Business Cards
9) Power surge
10) an 8 port router/switch with some kind of backup
11) 9 and 10 require contacting O'Reilly and finding out what the net
connection rules are, we may need a wireless router if they only provide that
(hopefully they won't)
12) Tables if they don't give us any (preferably deep ones so we have enough
space to hide any luggage) and covers for it
13) The last LWE's I went to we had this stand up thingy that we were able to
put up and display our elite info fliers
14) Some kind of giveaway would be nice, T-Shirts or whatever
That's all I can think of atm.
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
> 1. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/
Chris White
Lance Albertson
> I would appreciate some help in understanding exactly what's required to
> get a booth together as well, since I've never done this.
I was planning on attending OSCON this year. I'm not quite sure what my
time schedule will be like since I'm going for work, but I'm sure I can
squeeze in some booth time. Add me on the list of folks to keep in
contact for this.
Cheers-
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Chris Gianelloni
> I've been talking to some X.Org folks about sharing an OSCON [1] booth
> with us. OSCON is in Portland, OR, July 24-28, and the exhibit hall is
> open Wednesday and Thursday (26-27). This would help alleviate any
> short-staffing either group has, and likely attract more attention to
> the booth by having more Xgl and other bling, as well as people who can
> actually explain it.
>
> Mike (vapier) mentioned that at LWE, the O'Reilly guys offered us a
> booth. I presume this means free.
That was what I gathered. You would need to speak with Daniel Ostrow,
however, to get the exact details.
> Anyone who has interest in staffing a booth at OSCON or in attending it,
> please contact me. I will try to organize this. Exhibit hall attendance
> is free, but the sessions get pretty expensive. I'm not sure whether we
> would receive any session passes for being exhibitors.
>
> Who actually goes to OSCON? The attendees are roughly 50% devs, 25%
> sysadmins, and 25% suits/other. So it's a fun audience rather than being
> dominated by management.
>
> I would appreciate some help in understanding exactly what's required to
> get a booth together as well, since I've never done this.
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
> 1. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/
Also, try to stay in touch with me throughout this setup, as I am
working on documentation for the Gentoo Events project that will outline
what is necessary for a general Gentoo booth.
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Chris Gianelloni
> get a booth together as well, since I've never done this.
By the way, I've added OSCON to the Gentoo Events page[1] and listed you
as the contact.
1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/events/index.xml
Donnie Berkholz
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:40 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Mike (vapier) mentioned that at LWE, the O'Reilly guys offered us a
>> booth. I presume this means free.
>
> That was what I gathered. You would need to speak with Daniel Ostrow,
> however, to get the exact details.
So, Daniel?
> Also, try to stay in touch with me throughout this setup, as I am
> working on documentation for the Gentoo Events project that will outline
> what is necessary for a general Gentoo booth.
Planning on it. Chris White's already given some nice details on this.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Stuart Herbert
> By the way, I've added OSCON to the Gentoo Events page[1] and listed you
> as the contact.
>
> 1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/events/index.xml
If you need event planning and health & safety information for any
UK-based events (whether ours or whether someone else's), give me a
shout.
Might also be worth talking to Christel about the Events project if
she hasn't approached you already; I believe she's interested in such
things.
Best regards,
Stu
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