On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I am not opposed to Best or Better, except as striving for such blocks
> Good Enough.
>

Ditto. I also think just having a presence there, being able to answer
questions and maybe talk about the most interesting recent
events/trends/features of Perl (5.10, "Modern Perl", whatever), could be
beneficial.  However I would also like to point out that it may also benefit
Boston.pm.


> FIRST - HOW MANY of WE would be interested?
>     Possibly available then?
>     Might buy a badge to contribute?
>     Might get work to buy a badge, but would have to like actually
> attend some panels
>        on Linux to justify the expense?
>     Might get/make time off to work, but only if a FLOSS booth
> exhibitor badge is donated?
>     Send message to other PM groups asking who is coming? (URI Ronald &
> I have
>          access to that list of list-owners))
>
>
Definitely interested and would volunteer to help out. Would buy a badge if
needed.


> SECOND - WHAT
> * ask TPF if they have any official plans for LinuxCon Boston ...
>   ... and if so offer $n locals to help;
>   ... if not, would we ...
> * sponsor a Perl Birds of a feather session,
>

Oh, good idea.


> * hold social event for us & the out-of-town PM.ers
>    & Perl-friendly penguinistas,
>

Now we're talking!


>     maybe scheduled so far ahead it's in the official program ?
> * Our Own Booth - if LinuxCon have free .org zone or cheap FLOSS rate ?
>     * only if so does "which Agenda, which marketing angle, if any"
>       matter,
>        which decision does NOT need to be made now,
>        and may depend on whose money sweat and name is on the booth
>

I might be able to bring in some $.


> * if not our own booth, maybe help at Boston Linux / Unix  booth
>  (assuming they get one)
>    wearing  camel & camelia & onion logos "loud & proud" for a
>   presence, with any collateral material we can scrounge.
>

I usually play well with others.


>
> DOES ANYBODY HAVE INTEREST IN BEING PARTY TO ANY OF THOSE?
>
>
So yes. Though as stated before I'll be out of town for ~3 weeks just before
so I could not be an organizer on this effort.

-Sean

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