Re: OSCON Booth planning..

2005-07-20 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 at 11:17:38 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
 
 I think pretty much everything is ready logistically (we have about
 3 for sure, and five if things work out)  But I need a little help
 in locating the GNOME poster that I think was last headed out to
 California last year.  If not, we need to come up with one. :-)

The sign sent to California last year is back in Boston. What size is the OSCON 
booth?  
Is it pipe and drape? It's possible to use the same signs for OSCON and LWE in 
San Franciso.

tim

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Re: OSCON Booth planning..

2005-07-20 Thread Sri Ramkrishna
Alright.  As for the size of the booth, I believe it is 10x10.

My brother said he might help me design one as well.  But yeah, if you
could sent it that would be cool.  I can probably send it back with
someone going back to California or whatever.

sri

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 19:01 +0200, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote:
 On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 at 11:17:38 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
  
  I think pretty much everything is ready logistically (we have about
  3 for sure, and five if things work out)  But I need a little help
  in locating the GNOME poster that I think was last headed out to
  California last year.  If not, we need to come up with one. :-)
 
 The sign sent to California last year is back in Boston. What size is the 
 OSCON booth?  
 Is it pipe and drape? It's possible to use the same signs for OSCON and LWE 
 in San Franciso.
 
 tim

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Re: OSCON Booth planning..

2005-07-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:51:22PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
 I don't think we have any quite yet. Next year, definitely :/ [But
 someone else should feel to correct me.]

No worries.  If we can't do t-shirts, I am cool with that.

  * I'm also trying to see if I can get a GNOME Live CD included in
the conference packet that is given out to all the attendees.
That will allow us to distribute GNOME conference wide.
 
 This sounds great.
 
I need to determine if they agree to distribute it, how many they
will need and when.  Would it be possible to press say 1-2K cds?
 
 I got this done on about 4 working days notice for LWE, including
 couriered delivery. If the conference starts on Aug. 1st, that means
 we need to decide by roughly the 25th (22nd would be better.) Cost
 would be fairly high- somewhere in the neck of $1.1K for 2K CDs, which
 might be a problem. We can of course put OSCON content on the CD if
 they want to defer our costs.

OK, thats good to bring up when I talk with them.

  I'll look into trying to get an automated demo going because
  last year I find that people aren't interested in doing hands on
  approach to playing with GNOME.  A nice little automated demo will
  show things nicely.
 
 Hrm. I'd like to play with this, but I can promise nothing in this
 time frame. Did you have any ideas on how you wanted to do it?

Well, the participants are people who are in government and small to
midsized companies.  A great target in my opinions.  So you'll see
people who are sysadmins at school systems, or work in state govt,
or have consultancy firms and so forth.

Strategically, What you probably want to show off is this:

* multimedia capabilities

  * creating theora videos for educational purposes (ex the demo itself)
  * streaming video demo

* office compatibility (nebulous..no idea on how to show that)
* maybe a sabayon demo on sysadmining GNOME boxen etc.
* file management

Stuff though like beagle would be killer because being able to get
real time info about things would really drum up interest in GNOME.
It's exactly the kind of thing that Windows doesn't have.

Thats some stuff off the top of my head.

sri


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