Re: [gentoo-dev] OSCON booth?

[Chris White]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 11:40 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> 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