Re: OSCON

2013-03-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
to be able to market to javascript writers at OSCON. Unfortunately, I'm one guy, and I'm not even sure I can even do that. I'm not sure if I can pull off manning the booth. I need to see if I can get some volunteers to man it. I'll see what I can do.. I can do a little

Re: OSCON

2013-03-22 Thread Emily Gonyer
. I've always resisted because we don't really have a good reason to be there. Butt his time, with our push to javascript I would like to be able to market to javascript writers at OSCON. Unfortunately, I'm one guy, and I'm not even sure I can even do that. I'm not sure if I can pull

Re: OSCON

2013-03-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
a booth this time. I've always resisted because we don't really have a good reason to be there. Butt his time, with our push to javascript I would like to be able to market to javascript writers at OSCON. Unfortunately, I'm one guy, and I'm not even sure I can even do that. I'm not sure

Re: OSCON

2013-03-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
. I've always resisted because we don't really have a good reason to be there. Butt his time, with our push to javascript I would like to be able to market to javascript writers at OSCON. Unfortunately, I'm one guy, and I'm not even sure I can even do that. I'm not sure if I can

Re: OSCON

2013-03-22 Thread Karen Sandler
, March 22, 2013 1:42 am, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I am thinking about getting a booth this time. I've always resisted because we don't really have a good reason to be there. Butt his time, with our push to javascript I would like to be able to market to javascript writers at OSCON

OSCON

2013-03-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I am thinking about getting a booth this time. I've always resisted because we don't really have a good reason to be there. Butt his time, with our push to javascript I would like to be able to market to javascript writers at OSCON. Unfortunately, I'm one guy, and I'm not even sure I can even

Re: OSCON

2012-01-31 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 21:21 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: My earlier suggestion was to have a11y devices that we can take advantage of and give a demo of how well it works for them. Show them the value of a11y and then see if they could donate a couple of bits for the cause. sri At

Re: OSCON

2012-01-30 Thread Allan Day
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bryen M Yunashko a11yro...@bryen.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:37 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: The best booths are the ones that engage people passing by. I had a few ideas but they may be way out there... could be cool for OSCON, though. Interesting

Re: OSCON

2012-01-30 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 08:57 +, Allan Day wrote: I think that getting people to sign up to Friends of GNOME would be a great idea. You could have special badges/t-shirts that they could wear at the conference if they do. Let's not forget the a11y campaign that is happening, either. Allan

Re: OSCON

2012-01-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 01/29/2012 02:16 AM, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: I manned the GNOME booth at OSCON for 3 years. It just seems that the participants there are not really interested in Linux desktops in general. They are all cloud/web

Re: OSCON

2012-01-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: In terms of getting people involved, it might be interesting to do something about the new applications. Some new designs are in the works, but there are others that need developers to step up. You could do something

Re: OSCON

2012-01-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 01/29/2012 02:16 AM, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: I manned the GNOME booth at OSCON for 3 years. It just seems that the participants there are not really interested in Linux desktops in general. They are all cloud/web apps type of people. The best booths are the ones that engage people

Re: OSCON

2012-01-29 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:37 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: The best booths are the ones that engage people passing by. I had a few ideas but they may be way out there... could be cool for OSCON, though. Interesting ideas! I like the thought process going into this. 1. Croud-source something

Re: OSCON

2012-01-28 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 18:00 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Is it worth registering a booth at OSCON? I guess, if we have applications to show then perhaps it might be better. We could also try to get donations for a11y as well. Anyways, let me know what people think. I'd like to to have

Re: OSCON

2012-01-28 Thread Sri Ramkrishna
The chair of OSCON used to be a GNOME contributor. We can probably ask him regarding any confusion on the criteria. I'm not that bullish of manning the booth but I will if it will help the cause. sri On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 18:25 -0600, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 18:00 -0800

Re: OSCON

2012-01-28 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 16:37 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: The chair of OSCON used to be a GNOME contributor. We can probably ask him regarding any confusion on the criteria. I'm not that bullish of manning the booth but I will if it will help the cause. sri I wouldn't want to see anyone

Re: OSCON

2012-01-28 Thread Sri Ramkrishna
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 18:47 -0600, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 16:37 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: The chair of OSCON used to be a GNOME contributor. We can probably ask him regarding any confusion on the criteria. I'm not that bullish of manning the booth but I

Re: OSCON

2012-01-28 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 17:16 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: I manned the GNOME booth at OSCON for 3 years. It just seems that the participants there are not really interested in Linux desktops in general. They are all cloud/web apps type of people. The booth would have to be focused

OSCON

2012-01-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Is it worth registering a booth at OSCON? I guess, if we have applications to show then perhaps it might be better. We could also try to get donations for a11y as well. Anyways, let me know what people think. I'd like to to have a meeting on how to deal wtih conferences.. what conferences we

open source bridge/ oscon / northwest linuxfest

2010-12-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So, March - August I believe is going to have a number of conferences in the northwest. (U.S.) and I am planning on putting in presentations for Gnome 3 for each of the conferences in the subject line. The first I believe is in March with open source bridge which seems to be a pretty good fit.

Re: open source bridge/ oscon / northwest linuxfest

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Cutler
Hi Sri, I'll be happy to work on it with you. I think I'm going to update my GNOME 3 presentation I gave at OLF last year and do it at SCALE this coming February so I'll have some content for you. Paul On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: So, March -

Re: open source bridge/ oscon / northwest linuxfest

2010-12-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Sri, I'll be happy to work on it with you. I think I'm going to update my GNOME 3 presentation I gave at OLF last year and do it at SCALE this coming February so I'll have some content for you. Great! I have already

Re: OSCON?

2010-07-07 Thread Stormy Peters
Larry, I do not think we need the event box at OSCON. Thanks! Stormy On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Larry Cafiero larry.cafi...@gmail.comwrote: Let me rephrase the question: Does anyone know if GNOME requested a booth for which the event box would be needed? Larry Cafiero On Tue, Jul

OSCON?

2010-07-06 Thread Larry Cafiero
Hi, folks -- Is there going to be any GNOME presence at OSCON, and if so, who gets the event box and banner? Thanks. Larry Cafiero -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: OSCON?

2010-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I could volunteer.. I used to do the OSCON booth.. GNOME3 stuff might be cool. Not sure if there is enough time to setup a vendor booth though. Stormy will be there and I was going to set up an evening with local OSS folks here in Portland, that's the only thing I've planned. In general, I

Re: OSCON?

2010-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
This is what I get for answering email while drinking wine: Let me rephrase: I have done the GNOME booth at OSCON for the first 3 years of OSCON, but I haven't done it after that because I find that the audience is very web/LAMP based. The desktop is not really of interest for a lot of people

Re: OSCON?

2010-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
for GNOME 3 for next May/April. That will be right before the next major release of GNOME 3. So it will be a good time to talk about it. sri On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Larry Cafiero larry.cafi...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, folks -- Is there going to be any GNOME presence at OSCON, and if so

Re: OSCON?

2010-07-06 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
I'm not actually going to OSCON. I will, however, be at the Community Leadership Summit over the weekend prior to OSCON. (Wearing my openSUSE hat for that weekend.) However, I plan to walk around the exhibits at OSCON on Monday and then sneak in to check out the Teaching Open Source BoF

Re: OSCON was Re: [Fwd: blah blah LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005 blah blah]

2006-07-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Paul Cooper wrote: I would tend to agree with Sriram that a booth may not be the most productive use of our time at OSCON. I've just found out that they are also doing a BarCamp style unconference in parallel with OSCON called (wait for it.) OSCAMP. See http://oscamp.org

Re: OSCON was Re: [Fwd: blah blah LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005 blah blah]

2006-07-11 Thread Paul Cooper
- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Paul Cooper wrote: Another thing we could do is hold a BOF / impromptu event. Haven't been to OSCON at it's new venue but they alway used to provide rooms for BOFS. With at least Glynn, JDub and me there we should have enough people to do

Re: OSCON Booth planning..

2005-07-20 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
. 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 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http

Re: OSCON Booth planning..

2005-07-20 Thread Sri Ramkrishna
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 -- marketing-list mailing list

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Would like to add GNOME Live CD to OSCON packet]

2005-07-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Sri, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : I'm cool if we don't get it in teh packet, we can always distribute it from the booth, at much smaller quantities if money is a factor. Just a word of advice - bag inserts tend to mostly get thrown away, whereas stand giveaways (or better, sales) tend to

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Would like to add GNOME Live CD to OSCON packet]

2005-07-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
] Subject: Re: Would like to add GNOME Live CD to OSCON packet X-spasm-sender-IP: 209.204.146.35 X-spasm-sender-host: roll.oreilly.com Hi Sriram, Sure, you need to send 2000 to: All Bag Inserts MUST be clearly marked with the words BAG INSERTS, COMPANY NAME in large letters on the outside of box

Re: OSCON Booth planning..

2005-07-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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

OSCON GNOME booth..

2005-06-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So OSCON is offering me a free both for GNOME Foundation and since my boss as approved me attending I am going to try for it. But I don't know if I will be able to get volunteers. :/ I'll ask the usual suspect and see if I can get some help. Maybe tht guy Aseigo can help he's only 3 hours away

Re: OSCON GNOME booth..

2005-06-13 Thread David Neary
Hi, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: So OSCON is offering me a free both for GNOME Foundation and since my boss as approved me attending I am going to try for it. But I don't know if I will be able to get volunteers. :/ Jeff's going to be there. He likes GNOME. Tim will probably also

Re: OSCON GNOME booth..

2005-06-13 Thread Ken VanDine
Actually, I may be there also... We are discussing it at work now. --Ken Quoting Sriram Ramkrishna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Replying to myself: Some people asked the location and date of OSCON 05. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/ August 1 - 5, Portland, OR USA Miguel