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Greetings! |
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This is just a note to bring everyone together on the same page for what we |
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have planned for the LWE-SF booth, and a request for comment/ideas. |
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Indiana University will be supplying a trade show display, along with the |
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computer systems that will be used for the booth. |
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We put up the display today and put the gentoo poster up (with some more |
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velcro, the poster will look better when we put it up at SF, this was just to |
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see how big it would be on the display). Check it out at the following url: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~cshields/boothwithoutpodium1024.jpg |
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It is 10 feet wide (with the curvature) so it will be a tight fit in our 10 |
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foot booth. However, I think it will make a great impression, especially |
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compared to the other .org booths we will be out there with. If for some |
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reason it will not fit, we can shorten it by 2 feet with a few modifications. |
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I'd rather not do that because then we might not be able to use the |
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spotlights or have enough space for additional signage. |
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The request I have of all of you is about additional posters. We have 2 feet |
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of space (width) on each side of the big poster, we could put smaller |
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informational posters there. The question is, what do we want to put? One |
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idea is to take quotes from websites and magazines that Gentoo has been |
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featured in, and just put a bunch of random quotes of praise up. For example, |
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"if all you want is a solid Linux system to operate your standard internet |
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enabled services like LAMP, you can't do better than Gentoo Linux." (quoted |
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from http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/8009/index.html). Any other |
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thoughts/ideas for additional posters? I need ideas and content by the end |
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of this week to make it happen. |
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Also, we will have a table in front of the background display. This table |
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will have 3 gentoo boxes: the center box will just be a display running a |
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presentation loop (the presentation will highlight features of gentoo and |
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the gentoo projects). The other 2 boxes on each side of the center display |
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will have keyboards & mice to play around with as demos. People in the booth |
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can demonstrate portage, config files, etc. as booth visitors come up with |
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questions and such. If we have a 6 foot table (which seems to be the |
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consensus), we could set the displays up in a U configuration, with the |
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center screen facing outward with the presentation, and the 2 screens with |
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keyboards facing the sides. A couple of feet of room on each side of the |
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table should be enough to walk a visitor up to the screen and show it off, |
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while getting him/her out of the way of the presentation running in the |
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middle. If this doesn't work due to space, we can face all 3 outward, but it |
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could be problematic. the signage on the booth display should clear the |
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table and the computers (if not, the G logo sure will). see the url above, |
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the display is about 7 feet high. |
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Any special requests for the demo boxes? We will stage and install them here |
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at IU before shipping them to San Francisco. This is to eliminate the |
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problem that comes whenever people try to build the demos on the floor 24 |
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hours before the show starts. I was only at last year's LWE-SF booth so I |
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didn't see how it worked in NY, but it didn't seem to work well that way from |
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my point of view. |
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Ben will be working on a work schedule for those who volunteered. Basically, |
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we want to avoid having too many people (>3) at the booth at any given time. |
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No loitering, please. Plus, there will be no place in the booth to dump your |
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swag. take it back to the hotel or carry a backpack.. We only have a 10 |
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foot square booth, and that is not much space to work in. Ben will chime in |
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later to work out some kind of schedule. |
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Cheers! |
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-C |
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(I've cc'ed my coworkers here at IU for their information.. some of them are |
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helping out from our end of things) |
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Corey Shields - Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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