Just a quick review of my take on Convergence, for those who might be interested.
We had approx 3 hours to get our booth setup, and completed in only 1 hour. This was partly because the booth was relatively simple, and partly because of all the prep work that Rod Ormon had done. I had some concerns after the first day. The attendance just didn't seem to be all that large. That said though, we had enough traffic at our booth to keep the volunteers busy. And we had no shortage of volunteers on that day. My concerns were more about if it would be worth the time to do another convergence if the entire period went the same. Yes we did get to talk to a number of people, but the volume just didn't really seem to fit with a trade show. But that changed the next day. The second day didn't really see a difference in the volume of visitors, but did see a change in the type of visitors. It seems that this day is when the various companies/institutions decided to attend and chat with the exhibitors. I ended up with 6 different business cards from people we very much want to talk with on various topics - and they approached us. These cards include representatives from DeVry and UofC, so watch for news about activities at these locations in the near future. This one point alone made the entire show very "worth it" to me. But the real news is from the interest we saw in Linux and CLUG. A number of people made a point to stop by and ask us about our group. I fully expect that these people are likely to attend the next few meetings and begin taking part in our community. Other people were approached by us as they passed by. Some of this group of people were a little skeptical when we first started talking, but most seemed to become quite interested as they learned more about us, and Linux in general. Overall, the show was well worth the effort, and Rod did a great job of organizing our part in it. We will likely see an increase in attendance at the next few meetings as a result. I want to thank Rod for all his work, and all the volunteers for helping put things together, organize it, and man the booth. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
